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So, what is the answer? Wait for poor-people parity? We can only move forward in the US if all of the other poor people in the world are at the same level? A
by clavalle 12y ago
So, what is the answer? Wait for poor-people parity? We can only move forward in the US if all of the other poor people in the world are at the same level?
And, if that is the case, which direction do we go? Do we push the poor people in the US down or raise up the poor people elsewhere or a combination of both?
I'd rather raise others up while helping our own. Free markets are fine as long as they don't become a race to the bottom and create perverse incentives to keep the poor poor.
As the world economic power, along with our wealthy allied nations, we need to tie positive social movement, like raising the minimum wage, access to nutritious food, clean water, medical care, social mobility etc. to access to our markets.
If the people's lot doesn't improve, their elites don't get rich. Simple as that.
- yummyfajitas 12y agoYou've forgotten the original question. The question was whether we should harm very poor people in other countries in order to benefit not very poor at all people in the US. I argued that it would be horrendously immoral to do so.
- clavalle 12y agoHow do we pull up the poor when the elites filter the entire economy through their pockets? If the goal is to pull everyone out of poverty, is there a way to accelerate the process? I'd say, yes. Predicate the elites selling their people's labor to wealthier powers on improving labor's situation in that country. They are not doing it on their own, at least not fast as they could. I think we can help both the poor people in the US and everywhere else. We just need to squeeze the top a bit harder.
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