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> Actually the solution to poverty is quite simple! You directly give everyone the base resources necessary to lead a dignified life. I guess even the most com
by coolso 5y ago
> Actually the solution to poverty is quite simple! You directly give everyone the base resources necessary to lead a dignified life.
I guess even the most complex, difficult things can be accomplished, if only we just do them. Becoming a millionaire is simple, just have someone give you a million dollars. Being a CEO is quite simple, just get hired as one and make smart decisions that are good for the company.
I mean there’s a lot more involved, not just in robbing the non-poor to give freebies to the poor, but also all of the societal and economical and all sorts of other consequences they could have that, non-real-world studies that prove nothing aside (countless times we are told something will be so, but then it’s not - we do, however, have centuries of failed socialist and communist history giving us red flags), are quite likely to happen.
- ahelwer 5y agoThere were 37.2 million people living below the poverty line in the USA in 2020[1]. The 2021 budget for the US military was 705.4 billion dollars[2]. Let's be anomalously generous to the military industrial complex and only cut that in half, to $352.7 billion dollars - about matching the combined military spending of both China and Russia (combined population 1.5 billion people). We can direct the other $352.7 billion dollars toward those people in poverty, giving them around $10k/person/year every year. I challenge you to come up with a reason not to do this that is not psychopathic. [1] https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2021/demo/p60-273.html https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2021/demo/p60-27... [2] https://www.defense.gov/Spotlights/FY2021-Defense-Budget/ https://www.defense.gov/Spotlights/FY2021-Defense-Budget/
- geodel 5y agoAgreed. I now have clear path in front of me to be neurosurgeon, mathematicians, astronaut and so on.