I highly doubt that poverty will ever be eradicated, unless we do something like shoot billionaires into the sun once they reach a billion.
Why do you think thats the solution to ending poverty?
You’re right, why throw perfectly good billionaire meat into the sun? We can eat them at home instead.
Just keep cutting off toes to treat your diabetes without addressing the root cause right?
Well, obviously we’d take their money AND eat them. Luckily billionaires are low in carbs.
Poverty will never be eradicated, what kind of nonsense is that? The poverty is a feature of capitalism, not a bug.
Right, I’m sure there’s actually plans to eradicate poverty… more likely there’s plans to eradicate the impoverished.
The current system we operate in requires poverty to function. It requires people to be desperate so that they work for the oligarchs and, it requires the absolute destitute to exist to serve as a warning to the masses. If poverty didn’t exist our capitalist world would simply create it.
The Nature of Capitalism
These countries are not under developed, they’re over exploited.
Truth
Here’s the full lecture by Michael Parenti if you’re interested.
The yellow lecture? Collect 2 Marxist points and get back in the bread line. /s
If a dollar was deposited into you account every SECOND, it would take approximately 32 years to get to just one billion dollars.
Elon Musk has 180! And he’s the SECOND richest guy on Earth. The richest being Bernard Arnault at 211!!!
It’s absolutely grotesque to be this filthy rich.
Also, inb4 “It’S pApEr VaLuE, nOt ReAl MoNeY iN tHe BaNk”. Who cares? You could sell it all and become an international hero by ending all famine, bringing healthcare to everyone and giving shelter to everyone who needs it.
To add to this, don’t forget they can borrow against this paper value. Since it’s a loan, they don’t pay taxes on it.
Even better - it’s a debt. It lowers their income to below 0. It’s a tax break.
I just had to do the math. If Jesus rose from the dead but then continued living as an immortal zombie, and he managed to squirrel away $250,000 a day, every day without spending a dime, he would just about have as much money as Elon Musk by now.
This seems like a great opportunity for some Supply Side Jesus! https://imgur.com/gallery/bCqRp
Lol i love the precision of this forecast: 229 and not 230
It only makes sense that we collectively eat the first trillionaire.
Tbh I’d guess that it’s unlikely that we’ll have a trillionaires at all. Hiding wealth will become easier and easier and I don’t think anyone wants that rep in “eat the billionaires” sort of public climate.
I agree about hiding wealth and all that, but is the public climate actually “eat the billionaires?” Because I basically only see that in left-wing spaces. Normies still seem to be doing a ton of boot licking tbh. I do live in a pretty conservative area though so maybe that’s biased?
Speaking anecdotally, I’m pretty sure you’re right on that one. In my circle of (millenial / lefty) friends it’s basically seen as common sense. Among the average person I interact with, however, such as at work, it’s seen as a fringe idea. And I’m not even advocating for eating them in the revolutionary sense - just taxing the rich in a way that doesn’t allow any one person/family to horde egregious amounts of wealth to the point that they can unduly influence society with their power.
And I’m not even advocating for eating them in the revolutionary sense
I really thought you were going to go with “but in a culinary sense”.
Hahaha. Now I wish I had!
We should have eaten the first billionaire. If we stay eating people we definitely didn’t stop as long as there are any billionaires.
Poverty will never be eradicated. At no point in human civilization have we managed to eliminate poverty, and as long as there are rich people needing to extract maximum profits from fellow humans there will always be poor people.
Poverty is needed for the rich to be rich. That’s the basic foundation of the system. That was really a dumb report. Except the trillionaire-thing. We will witness that
229 years from now is gonna be some kind of mad max bullshit.
229 years sounds too optimistic to me. I don’t count on poverty ever being eradicated
We have far greater productivity than at any other point in human history and we still have tons of poverty, even in places like the EU and US. I believe we have the capability but not the willingness. Who’s to say we’ll ever have the willingness.
Sweet, I could be a trillonaire by the time poverty will be eradicated. All I have to do is save $498,500 every single hour until then.
Ah shit, I’m already $124,619 behind.
Damn, really falling behind now. Gotta find a way to make up that 11,964,000 I’m short for the last day.
How are things coming along now?
Not good. Just shy of 12 million short…
That’s ok. Just keep working hard at pulling yourself up by your bootstraps and I’m sure you’ll get there eventually. Since you’re so close, you should probably start voting against taxes on the rich now. That way you won’t have to worry about the damn greedy welfare queens taking your hard earned money once you’ve made it.
But, in 229 years, will a Trillionaire be classed as Poverty?
At least we will know who to kill.
Poverty won’t be eradicated ever. Not ever.
As long as capitalism is the main system and governments fail to act on the abuse by the wealthy you are correct
Even in other systems… poverty serves to keep the underclass in line. It’s hard to revolt when you don’t have enough to eat.
That 229 figure is bullshit. Either all the impoverished will perish, be killed, or move underground into a less opulent/more satisfying culture where rat burgers reign supreme well before then or the real number is “fuck off you poor piece of trash.”
