Topic: Roots of Poverty
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I don't think in terms of "money" being the root of poverty but I do agree that our monetary system has limitations that additional (say balancing?) systems could by pass.
In particular, "the market" cannot produce more of a thing than would cause the market price to drop below the cost of production. Food is the prime example of that - farmers regularly produce more food than is demanded in the market - driving prices down below the cost of production - which is why we have farm subsidies. The other limitation of the market has to do with the supply and demand for labor. Increasing productivity is, by definition, producing more goods and services with less labor. Which means that "the market" requires fewer and fewer people with more specialized skills. All those who do not possess those skills are simply left out. Some economists say that increases in productivity create more jobs than it eliminates - but, it seems to me, that the jobs created are in providing services to those fewer people who have the required skills and we may come to a point where those fewer people can no longer support more people providing services. It would make more sense to have an additional system in which people could be producing what they need during those times when their skills are not needed in the market. I have called such a system a self-help corporation: http://www.aboutus.org/3DN_Self-help_Corporation which functions according to economics of integrated production: http://www.aboutus.org/3DN_Economics_of_Integrated_Production I am working on how communities might come to implement such additional systems and invite anyone interested to join me at: http://www.aboutus.org/3DN_Introduction |
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Child labor is a consequence of poverty as hunger, homeless and others so is not as easy as we think. Even NGO’s and prominent individuals can not help eradication this issue until and unless they influence appropriate Governments to reevaluate the economic policies and rural economic growth. Till now rural economy is only known as agricultural economy and never emphasized on add-on value products. Governments have to consider growing and generating rural employment. Target set for 2015 to eradicate poverty may not be achieved until we understand roots and real causes of poverty.
http://www.sadashivan.com/quotpovertyquotasubject/ 90% of child laborers are rural children who migrate to cities and end up begging, prostitution, domestic helpers, or other odd jobs. It is easy to say “give them education and not work”, but the question is who will give? How many will benefit? Individuals and organizations have been helping these children for several decades. Have they achieved any result? Each day numbers and methods of child labor is growing. http://www.sadashivan.com/ In books or written records the number of child labor may have reduced but physically, it is different, and areas of child labors have added like begging, domestic help, prostitution, pickpockets, street entertainment, which was never there 2-3 decades back. I herewith enclosed the video clips and my sites to know more about relationship between poverty and child labor issue. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVPk9Jns28k http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4744275778188781484 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QlnKpAQ1aA http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8849854166464553063 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZCMAwYigzk |
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I've heard this before...matter of fact, i was raised under this philosophy. All people should work according to their abilities and receive resources according to their needs. Individual achievement is recognized socially but not rewarded materially. Individual freedom is not important. Economy should be centrally planned by the government, since they know best who needs what. Commerce and competition are necessary evils. The profit motive is evil. Social problems are caused by scarcity and/or unjust distribution of material goods, but modern technology renders competition for resources obsolete. Citizens have access to all the material things they need thanks to the government, so they are free to be truly happy and to maximize their human potential.
What motive got Western civilization through the "dark age" that followed the sack of Rome? Sunny confidence in the essential goodness of human nature? A love for scientific exploration? Baloney. There are basically two motives behind all human progress: economic advancement (for either survival or profit) and religious belief. Both were absolutely essential to the successful Middle Ages that followed. Both were necessary for the birth of modern science in the Renaissance. Poverty is a choice! Our job is give resources to those that understand. |
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Hello wonderful people. I need you to think logically as you read the following words. It is the only way you will understand the concept. The reason why we have poverty, is because we have money. Money exists because we believe that it has value. We also have a belief in "ownership" . I had the opportunity to reverse engineer, money. What I discovered is that that is the reason for most of the problems on the planet. WE make everything about money and that goes against everything in nature. WE need to share food and to build shelter for everyone. Those are our needs. We somehow think that we would not have survived and thrived as humans, without the invention of money. Who "owned" the first "anything" (gold, cattle, oil, etc.), to trade or sell? How did they come about " owning" it (gold, cattle, oil, etc.). The money concept that we believe in, is all about profit, not people. Downsizing, under employment, outsourcing, are just some of the problems. What is this "economy" that is supposed to grow, otherwise you are a failure? Do you have to pay a tree to bear fruit ? What if we develop a system where people are valid and viable ? Where everyone has a place to live and food to eat ? No money, no ownership. Where we are not digging the planet to dust in the name of profit. Every one would be the same, because there would be no money and no inequality. I will give you know more details later. Peace always. Think logically, accept the truth, and live accordingly.