Guest post by Y.T. Whitemansson, author of Obadiah Spelter vs. Stephenie Meyer & Her Hepatic Majesty
A while ago, I read this quote in the Forbes Magazine (they choose one for each edition), I don’t know by who, but Forbes obviously thought it proper to display:
Those who condemn wealth are those who see no way of obtaining it themselves
Or something like that. Pretty illustrative proverb, I’d say, for defending greed. Which is not against the law, in most cases, but causes probably more damage to the world than all criminals united.
There are two ways of obtaining wealth: sell a lot of something to those who already have plenty, or use poor as a labor force, but make sure they stay poor. A lot more can be said on effects of capitalism on the third world, but there’s no need for me go there, all was said already and so many times.
I’ll just take a moment or two to reflect on birthrates in developed (read: rich) and undeveloped countries. Poor India’s and Africa’s and so on’s, populations are rapidly growing, children are born into poverty to live and often die into poverty, while the developed world has ever declining birthrate.
I read a crazy article about some tourist agency from Denmark, telling Danish mothers to send their daughters to summer vacations at sea, because that way they have more chances of getting pregnant. Imagine that.
Imagine the future, if you can.
If the wealth doesn’t really start pouring over, we’re gonna have a future that will make Hunger Games look like an utopia.
Just a thought.
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Funny… Not the article, or the poverty, but the fact that, when I scrolled down to he comment section there was a photo of a hungry child in tears and next to it on the right side was a google add. And that add was happily offering to redirect me to a web site in order to buy bags, shoes, jewelry and other overly expensive things I really don’t need right now. Way to go google! What a fine way to round up everything this article is talking about…
Right, stimpy. And I get advertisments for luxury homes. And yet the quote in the post neatly tries to make any outrage we feel somehow our own fault. I think we can imagine that hunger games world (those of us in the broadly defined middle class) because we are kind of scrambling on the precipice of the haves vs. the have-nots, and it keeps us paralyzed.
I found that advertisement you were talking about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrO3TfJc9Qw
They could simply take more Syrian refugees, but what the hell…
Point well made. It seems like a paradox that in parts of the world where there’s not enough food life is swarming, but it’s all up to women actually. We men, can’t give births to babies. Women of third world countries do that beginning at a very young age, simply because it’s the custom. Because it’s the way to go. While here (and in Denmark I guess) women choose to have, or not to have, and when, or to just enjoy life and ignore nature.
So very true. We all must fight to reach our full potential in life, there’s no giving up, you can’t win the lottery, if you don’t buy the ticket
In my country we have one saying: ”No one took a trailer to afterlife”. You can only need so much while living, why pile up? Give to those who have nothing
I don’t know, I would never allow myself to bring a child into this world knowing that chances of supporting him/her are non-existent. If I’m suppose to starve to death, I’d choose to do it alone
You got it Y! Very educational post. It’s important to know what’s going on around us, otherwise we just might all be mushrooms
We’re not doing enough to change the way things are. The first thing we should start with is changing our corrupt governments. The spirit of Ernesto Gevara endures.
@ Ivan, great saying. But, I don’t think it was said by bourgeois and tycoons, but by those who have far less
Mark Zuckerberg is going to donate 99% of Facebook company wealth to charitable organizations. He should be an example to others, those who created the problem must be its solution.
Like you said ”all was said already and so many times”. Talking about powerty online will not change anything.
Good work buddy. In that bush the hare hides! IMF and Trilateral are pulling the strings of hunger and poverty, everyone should be aware of that
We all should contribute to making this world a better place, glad to see y.t. had started pulling his weight 🙂
Insightful and truthful post. Deserves everyone’s attention, I really enjoyed reading this.
+1 like for you Y.T. 🙂
Hi YT, thanks for inviting me to comment on your post, I think you picked a great topic to kick off a discusion. Great post. Bye
+1 from me too. I hope you make it. Let the Crusade against world hunger begin here.
Problem of poverty won’t go away on its own, I agree. I agree with your article in general. As long as there’s rich, there will be poor also
Thanks for the post and thanks for invitation to comment. Short, but each word was in place. We have to keep searching for the solution for the problem of poverty.
Someone told me recently that a painting of Paul Gauguin was sold to the family of Qatar Sheikh for 200 million euros becoming the most expensive piece of art ever sold. So I learned two things from this fact:
1 there’s more than enough money going around and
2 those who posses it don’t care about the rest of the world. Just themselves
Countries that are the poorest in resources are among most powerful financialy. Think about that
*natural resources
Greetings from Germany. I join the congratulations, difficult topic well covered.
The terrible fact is how much food, drugs, and generally all that is needed for a normal life thrown away every year in the “developed countries”. In other words, the funds are there but they are unevenly distributed … I do not know why there is a need of individuals to be enormously rich. No matter how much house with countless rooms had, they still sleep in one bed …
Despite everything that was said here the only way to escape poverty is to migrate into countries with decent life standards. And I am honestly surprised that people of Asia and Africa didn’t realize that before. That’s what people of Mexico have been doing with USA for decades. Now, it’s happening to Europe, and it’s going to keep happening, until something changes and what would that be, I really don’t have any idea.
Contraception is the key word in eliminating world hunger