The world's 100 richest people earned enough money in 2012 to end poverty 4x over.

[Wild Self]

Well, its a form of population control. More people dying = less resources shared.

 

[bubbaclot]

Unfortunately you will never be able to rid of poverty.

Spoiler

Told yall to buy stocks back in 2009 & 2010, shit you could have been buying in 2011 & early 2012 and made a fortune. This is what you call an economic recovery, I'll bet yall the stock market finishes on a high note this year. Up to you if you want to ride the wave or be left behind.

So you saying a person needs to take some risk if they want to create more income?

I mean of course everyone's risk tolerance is different but some would take penitentiary chance for short term returns instead of investing for the long haul.

We need people to open their minds b/c you need to if you want to win and be very successful or break the mold of what is mediocrity. I find too many choose to settle cuz things got too hard or they got discouraged by the harsh world and people SMMFH. All the lofty ideals people had when they were younger lost or buried deep inside masked by insecurity and fear.

Fear is nothing, it is simply of the mind, a lot of people have goals and wishes of being so much more but I think they're terrified of criticism so they never stick their necks out and try something new. Insanity I call it - the process of doing something over and over again and expecting new results SMH. All of those very wealthy people go read their bios on forbes, by the time you get to member 350 of the World's Richest, you see ALL of their stories involve some unconventional thought or action that prompted them to take a risk.

Now if a person is cool with living a regular life and cool with just having what they have there is nothing wrong with that. But where poverty is concerned, it's sort of like ying and yang - good and evil. As long as rich exists there will be poverty. If everyone is a boss who the hell is working ? If you want to heal poverty you can't just give wealth to people you have to build it. More businesses to promote growth & jobs, better economics, access to an education, those things are very important if you want to heal poverty.

Carlos Slim when he was on Larry King spoke quite eloquently about it, google it it's quite interesting.

Your going to make these people heads explode in this forum posting like that!!

Good shit.

Like you said if you check those people's bios you will see that they had many failures before finding their niche.

 

[LUClEN]

So we can all agree on major welfare reform?

Progress.

There are better options than welfare

 

[bubbaclot]

They should just buy a country and only allow people that have past a background check to live there.

 

[LUClEN]

Veil of Ignorance

 

[Idiopathic Joker]

We live in a society where people want hand outs. No one believes we can make it on our own by our own boot straps, shit, Barack Obama is a perfect example of this. No one needs hand outs to get money and live comfortable. All it takes is hard work and determination. It may sound like a goddamn after school special but it is the truth.

 

[Dr.Chemix]

Thread is about as dumb as this dude with the AT&T cut

 

[Idiopathic Joker]

Thread is about as dumb as this dude with the AT&T cut

I've seen worse lol

 

[CracceR]

Somebody needs to spark that revolution asap

but these bastids killed tupac..we lost brehs

 

[leftcoastkev]

contrary to the idealistic view.......life ain't fair. Everyone doesn't start with the same amount but everyone (in good health) is capable to advance.

generational wealth and financial security gets acquired through time.

-my parents did okay, weren't rich, but did better than their parents.

-my parents instilled the tools in me that made me more financially prosperous than them.

-i'd instill and guide my kids to be more prosperous than me.....

it all adds up....maybe in 5 generations their grandkids will be billionaires, who knows.

so if they did what they had to do, i'm doing what i got to do, and so forth.....why the hell should i take away from that to help somebody else? That shit ain't none of my/our business.

Is it self-ish? Absolutely.

If the people who kept looking out at others to find blame started looking in at self and asked why's and how's, in time they'd probably have more realistic answers than idealistic questions. They need to center on self.

People claw, scrape, hustle, take major Ls, and learned hard lessons in their quest to get ahead. You'd be shitty too if somebody came asking you to "share that shit" just because you have. They didn't share in the misery and hard times, so they shouldn't share in the glory.

So the next time someone ask you to share yo shit, share with them a hard luck story about a time when you too didn't have......then just walk off and leave them with that. It might piss them off but hey, instead of just sharing something "good" you have, you shared a part of "everything" you have.

 

[LUClEN]

I find it laughable that Black Americans, many of whom claim to be "African" Americans, support the status quo which condones the rape and pillage of African countries for resources and fuels their perpetual wars and constant poverty in order to secure that which they need to produce more-often-than-not useless goods.

Congolese Hands:

Oh yeah, Capitalism rocks.

 

[bubbaclot]

^^^^ that is not America!

FOH

 

[LUClEN]

It was Belgium, but they were motivated by the same shit that pushes Americans to seek out them blood diamond: profit.

Putting profit before human lives is insanity.

 

[bubbaclot]

It was Belgium, but they were motivated by the same shit that pushes Americans to seek out them blood diamond: profit.

Putting profit before human lives is insanity.

Who made them mine for diamonds?

 

[LUClEN]

The morally bankrupt. Why America would join them is beyond me.

 

[UnderMiSensi]

So your going to try and shame black americans into not particpating in capitalism because of what foreign corporations are doing in the diamond industry outside the US? stopitrod

Also what would black americans do to help if their broke huh? c'mon son

 

[LUClEN]

Stop supporting the system that condones this behavior, that's what they could be doing maybe.

Of course Gramsci's theory of hegemony holds true once again: The lower class is so indoctrinated into the capitalist culture that they actually defend the system to the point of choosing to partake in their own domination rather than improve their situation and transform the structure of society into one that is more equal.

 

[bubbaclot]

=em

 

[NoCompetition]

That aint how money works. Some people work harder than others. Some people make better financial moves. Some refuse to make smart financial moves and blow their money. Etc. etc. The whole premise here is not reality. Everybody can and will do what they want with their money. Nothin wrong with that.

 

[LUClEN]

That aint how money works. Some people work harder than others. Some people make better financial moves. Some refuse to make smart financial moves and blow their money. Etc. etc. The whole premise here is not reality. Everybody can and will do what they want with their money. Nothin wrong with that.

Why the hell should I pay for 50% of a CEO's expensive ass country club membership just because he writes it off as a business expense? Why the hell is that not going towards improving education?

There is this idea that the poor are to blame for their poverty. If this is true when did they decide the tax laws in this country? Is it their lawyers and accountants writing tax laws? No. It's the wealthy shaping the rules to favor them.

"Work harder. That's all you need to do, work hard." That is such a lie. Working hard and smart is what gets you rich, not working hard alone. Of course people neglect to mention that understanding how to work smart in a capitalist society is beyond the reach of much if not most of the poor. This is not something they are taught and rather than implement some sort of education in the public schools we just push the "shut up and work hard" ideology harder.

And let's not forget the latent function of rising tuition costs.