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Poverty is the default state, so...no-one?
by gloob 17y ago
Poverty is the default state, so...no-one?
- adrianwaj 17y agoWhat, poverty is the default state for all humans everywhere, or just China? Is silence part of the "default state" too?
- gloob 17y agoAll humans everywhere. It takes rather a lot of work to get out of it; it takes a lot more for newborns to be somewhat reliably not-in-it. I suppose the same would go for silence, too, but the road from silence -> sound is a lot shorter than the one from hunter-gatherer -> first world industrial economy.
- allenp 17y agoI think the big difference here between hunter-gatherer and 3rd world poverty is that your stone-age people weren't living in the toxic waste dumps of an industrializing nation that doesn't care about the environment. Typical hunter gatherers would have had better nutrition and better access to clean water and the ability to relocate/move without the government forcing them into only certain areas.
- metamemetics 17y agono! Poverty is not an absolute state\scale, it is one relative to everyone else at a given time. When their government sabotaged its economy with horrendous policy in the past, it created poverty.