I highly doubt that poverty will ever be eradicated, unless we do something like shoot billionaires into the sun once they reach a billion.
“Congratulations on reaching a billion dollars! Here is your reward, a one way trip to the Sun!”
Right, I’m sure there’s actually plans to eradicate poverty… more likely there’s plans to eradicate the impoverished.
The current system we operate in requires poverty to function. It requires people to be desperate so that they work for the oligarchs and, it requires the absolute destitute to exist to serve as a warning to the masses. If poverty didn’t exist our capitalist world would simply create it.
The Nature of Capitalism
These countries are not under developed, they’re over exploited.
Truth
Here’s the full lecture by Michael Parenti if you’re interested.
The means to solve it almost overnight are there. Homelessness and such are political choices more than anything.
It only makes sense that we collectively eat the first trillionaire.
Tbh I’d guess that it’s unlikely that we’ll have a trillionaires at all. Hiding wealth will become easier and easier and I don’t think anyone wants that rep in “eat the billionaires” sort of public climate.
I agree about hiding wealth and all that, but is the public climate actually “eat the billionaires?” Because I basically only see that in left-wing spaces. Normies still seem to be doing a ton of boot licking tbh. I do live in a pretty conservative area though so maybe that’s biased?
Speaking anecdotally, I’m pretty sure you’re right on that one. In my circle of (millenial / lefty) friends it’s basically seen as common sense. Among the average person I interact with, however, such as at work, it’s seen as a fringe idea. And I’m not even advocating for eating them in the revolutionary sense - just taxing the rich in a way that doesn’t allow any one person/family to horde egregious amounts of wealth to the point that they can unduly influence society with their power.
The existence of a trillionaire nearly guarantees that poverty is never going anywhere
We need to build a parallel economy the rich are banned from.
229 years from now is gonna be some kind of mad max bullshit.
Sweet, I could be a trillonaire by the time poverty will be eradicated. All I have to do is save $498,500 every single hour until then.
If a dollar was deposited into you account every SECOND, it would take approximately 32 years to get to just one billion dollars.
Elon Musk has 180! And he’s the SECOND richest guy on Earth. The richest being Bernard Arnault at 211!!!
It’s absolutely grotesque to be this filthy rich.
Also, inb4 “It’S pApEr VaLuE, nOt ReAl MoNeY iN tHe BaNk”. Who cares? You could sell it all and become an international hero by ending all famine, bringing healthcare to everyone and giving shelter to everyone who needs it.
That’s unfortunate.
That 229 figure is bullshit. Either all the impoverished will perish, be killed, or move underground into a less opulent/more satisfying culture where rat burgers reign supreme well before then or the real number is “fuck off you poor piece of trash.”
Speaking hypothetically here, what if millions of people just decided that they weren’t to go going to give money to rich people and then those people decided to go to that rich person’s house. Could the problem be fixed quickly this way?
Hehe capitalism am I right guys?
Step 1: eat the rich
Step 2: ???
Step 3: I didn’t think this far ahead
There are literal stacks of left wing literature about steps 2 and 3. Our problem is debating which of the five hundred paths to take is best, not finding just one.
229 years sounds too optimistic to me. I don’t count on poverty ever being eradicated
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As a North American, I don’t think $1,000,000,000,000 is a quadrillion. It’s 1x10^12, which is 1 trillion. 1 quadrillion is 1x10^15, or $1,000,000,000,000,000.
Thanks for the correction, I deleted my original comment because it was incorrect and misleading.
