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Diseases, wars, pollution, hunger, crime, mental illnesses, racism, mobility/passports that suck or give you access to practically nothing, terrorism, poverty.
by Jugurtha 5y ago
Diseases, wars, pollution, hunger, crime, mental illnesses, racism, mobility/passports that suck or give you access to practically nothing, terrorism, poverty. The list goes one.
- mbg721 5y agoThat reads like a laundry list of problems that money alone can't solve. (I guess you left off education.)
- krageon 5y agoAre you really implying money cannot solve poverty, because that's genuinely hilarious but I cannot imagine it to actually be true
- theandrewbailey 5y agoThe US government has spent trillions to fight poverty for over 50 years, but poverty rates are the same as back then.
- api 5y agoThere has been a decline, but it has not been huge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States
- nine_k 5y agoAbsolutely. Money can only solve poverty when property rights are respected and enforced, when there is an open market of sorts to spend the money for useful stuff, when the bearer does not spend the money on useless stuff (lotteries, payments to cult leaders, etc), and when the bearer is not addicted (to substances, games, etc). All the above are not problems money alone can solve.
- krageon 5y agoAddiction doesn't have to mean poverty, so clearly with enough money addiction does not (have to) result in poverty. The same goes for all the other issues, really.