Who Is at fault for this?
- Thread starter Mac Buddha
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I'm going to c&p what I posted in your forum mac...
Type of shit is this? You think it's thier fault the majority of the poplution of Earth is living in poverty? Our world has an obscene gulf between rich and poor. The private assets of the 200 richest people are more than the combined incomes of the poorest 2.4 billion people - almost half the world's population.
In fact, the United Nations estimated that "the additional cost of achieving and maintaining universal access to basic education for all, basic healthcare for all, reproductive care for all women, adequate food for all, and safe water and sanitation for all is roughly $40 billion a year...This is less than 4% of the combined wealth of the 225 richest people."
Poverty is clearly not due to a lack of resources. It is caused by the way the capitalist system misallocates resources. Agribusinesses and construction industries do not feed the hungry and house the homeless, because it is not profitable for them. The fact that large corporations are privately owned locks them into a ruthlessly competitive market economy where they cannot worry about anything except maximizing their short-term profits, or else they will be out-competed by their rivals.
Look, capitalism is not working. Internationally, 815 million people worldwide go hungry. We live on a planet where 55% of the 12 million child deaths each year are caused by malnutrition. And it's getting worse. According to the United Nations, the poorest countries are worse off now than they were 30 years ago.
On the basis of current trends, the numbers living in absolute poverty - that is, on less than a dollar a day - will increase by ten million a year for the next 15 years. The Aids epidemic has already killed 25 million people and is predicted to kill a further 68 million in the coming decades. In Botswana alone, 39% of the adult population have HIV/Aids.
Meanwhile in the US, the richest country on earth, the wealthiest 1% has seen their incomes increase by 157% since 1979. By contrast, the bottom 20% are actually making $100 less a year, 45 million people live below the poverty line and over 40% have no medical cover. Despite all the advanced technology and wealth available to the US, more than 32 million people have a life expectancy of less than 60 years.
As Karl Marx wrote over a hundred years ago, the capitalists are those who own the means of production. They own the factories, banks and offices. Marx's prediction that capitalism would lead to an ever-increasing concentration of wealth in the hands of a tiny minority and the increased exploitation of the vast majority worldwide is graphically borne out by the reality at the beginning of the 21st century.
In the last 50 years the wealth gap between the richest 20% of humanity and the poorest 20% doubled. Individual multinational companies have become richer than entire countries.
The world's 100 biggest companies now control 70% of global trade. Any one of them sells more than any of the poorest 120 countries on the world export market, while 23 of the most powerful sell more than even semi-developed countries such as India, Brazil, Indonesia or Mexico.
Support capitalism? lol, only if you want global death and destruction.
Type of shit is this? You think it's thier fault the majority of the poplution of Earth is living in poverty? Our world has an obscene gulf between rich and poor. The private assets of the 200 richest people are more than the combined incomes of the poorest 2.4 billion people - almost half the world's population.
In fact, the United Nations estimated that "the additional cost of achieving and maintaining universal access to basic education for all, basic healthcare for all, reproductive care for all women, adequate food for all, and safe water and sanitation for all is roughly $40 billion a year...This is less than 4% of the combined wealth of the 225 richest people."
Poverty is clearly not due to a lack of resources. It is caused by the way the capitalist system misallocates resources. Agribusinesses and construction industries do not feed the hungry and house the homeless, because it is not profitable for them. The fact that large corporations are privately owned locks them into a ruthlessly competitive market economy where they cannot worry about anything except maximizing their short-term profits, or else they will be out-competed by their rivals.
Look, capitalism is not working. Internationally, 815 million people worldwide go hungry. We live on a planet where 55% of the 12 million child deaths each year are caused by malnutrition. And it's getting worse. According to the United Nations, the poorest countries are worse off now than they were 30 years ago.
On the basis of current trends, the numbers living in absolute poverty - that is, on less than a dollar a day - will increase by ten million a year for the next 15 years. The Aids epidemic has already killed 25 million people and is predicted to kill a further 68 million in the coming decades. In Botswana alone, 39% of the adult population have HIV/Aids.
Meanwhile in the US, the richest country on earth, the wealthiest 1% has seen their incomes increase by 157% since 1979. By contrast, the bottom 20% are actually making $100 less a year, 45 million people live below the poverty line and over 40% have no medical cover. Despite all the advanced technology and wealth available to the US, more than 32 million people have a life expectancy of less than 60 years.
As Karl Marx wrote over a hundred years ago, the capitalists are those who own the means of production. They own the factories, banks and offices. Marx's prediction that capitalism would lead to an ever-increasing concentration of wealth in the hands of a tiny minority and the increased exploitation of the vast majority worldwide is graphically borne out by the reality at the beginning of the 21st century.
In the last 50 years the wealth gap between the richest 20% of humanity and the poorest 20% doubled. Individual multinational companies have become richer than entire countries.
The world's 100 biggest companies now control 70% of global trade. Any one of them sells more than any of the poorest 120 countries on the world export market, while 23 of the most powerful sell more than even semi-developed countries such as India, Brazil, Indonesia or Mexico.
Support capitalism? lol, only if you want global death and destruction.
Serious questions:
A) If Communism/Socialism was implemented in the United States, what effect would this have on the average middle class Joe America? Would they be better or worse off? How come?
B) If Communism/Socialism was implemented in the United States, what kind of effects would it have on people of the third world? Would it be better for them? Worse? Or the same?
These 2 questions are aimed at anyone who wishes to answer, I'd like to hear from both a communist percpective as well as a capitalist percpective.
C) If capitalism, is not at fault for poverty what then do you feel is the underlying problem? Are these people just lazy? Stupid? Is it their own fault?
A) If Communism/Socialism was implemented in the United States, what effect would this have on the average middle class Joe America? Would they be better or worse off? How come?
B) If Communism/Socialism was implemented in the United States, what kind of effects would it have on people of the third world? Would it be better for them? Worse? Or the same?
These 2 questions are aimed at anyone who wishes to answer, I'd like to hear from both a communist percpective as well as a capitalist percpective.
C) If capitalism, is not at fault for poverty what then do you feel is the underlying problem? Are these people just lazy? Stupid? Is it their own fault?
