Is there a way to eliminate global poverty and benefit rich people all over the world?

Answer 1

Yes. Level a "Security Tax" on the rich, proportional to net worth, with the richest paying the highest rate. Make this tax mandatory for at least ten years, and sufficient to A) raise all persons living above the poverty line and B) educate all those paying the tax on its purpose. Eliminating poverty will eliminate most petty and violent crime, reduce rampant population growth among the most impoverished nations, and over a decade, should stabilize most nations and regional economies at close to sustainable levels. Now, here's where the education comes in. The rich are going to hate this tax for the first couple of years and it'll take that long to really see significant social stabilization. But as violence declines and general welfare increases, the rich require less of their personal wealth, time and attention to KEEP their wealth. (Trust me...most of those who've been impoverished won't WANT that wealth once they've had a few years of stable sustenance and begin to trust that it will last.) Additional benefits to the rich: vastly greater freedom to move and interact at all levels. Rich folk have voluntarily done this for centuries and there are literally thousands of memoirs and tales of how the rich have observed significant improvements in the quality of their lives (and surprisingly often with little or no impact on their level of affluence or consumption) through this kind of redistribution of wealth. Typically though an individual will choose a particular cause to support...the one they personally feel most responsible for human suffering as they see it. But if we take the right to choose HOW this money is spent from them, and apply it in a common-sense way based on most urgent REAL needs, we could literally wipe out poverty, lose several billion in surplus population in a single generation, and make life more livable for everyone...PROVIDED we insure the essentials are provided for everyone. It wouldn't create a utopia (for example, there's no way we could support total health care for everyone at our present level of technological advancement in medicine...we'd have to limit or remove a lot of costly treatments) but it's truly amazing how much less people care to fight and kill when they know their own survival and basic needs will be taken care of...and how much even the richest among us really do appreciate being able to walk the streets without worrying about their personal safety. And while there will always be sociopaths among us, it has surprised me over the years to discover just how greedy the rich AREN'T...and how much of what appears to be greed in so many rich folk has its real root in personal insecurity or fear of being in need.

Ah, but it would never go over with the swing voters...oh well, it was JUST an idea...

Answer 2

The number one reason why people are impoverished is because of barriers to trade. These include lack of communication and government barriers (taxes, subsidies, etc.). Set up and encourage communication systems and reduce government involvement in trade and you will have not only wealthier poor, but also wealthier wealthy. This is because as more people gain more money, businesses have a larger marketplace to choose from. Economics is NOT a zero sum game -- meaning what the poor gains is NOT what the wealthy looses, they can both gain at the same time!

Answer 3

Yes...let the poor people work for the rich.

More opportunities for the poor to work...phooey! There truly are poor that need more opportunities, but in my life I have found that the poor have more opportunities and money just given to them than anyone else! My observations and discussions the the poor reveal that being poor is more a fact of laziness for those who could otherwise work. I have even been told "Why should I work...the government keeps me and I get more money than if I worked." Abolish hand-me outs and guess what...the poor will work and have more money.

Answer 4

Yep! Americans have to stop eating as much & pleasuring themselves with material things like they do & the whole world will become a better place!

Answer 5

Feed all the poor people to the rich people or have them build big fancy houses for the rich and get min wages? Oh wait, that's already happening...

lol.... .................NO

Answer 6

Sure. Instead of funding the kleptocracies of Africa with foreign aid (Somalia, for instance), replace foreign aid with foreign investature (to start factories, etc.)

Answer 7

Give the uneducated people more work opportunities.

Answer 8

The two are not necessarily related.

Answer 9

Yes, but you are forgetting about governments that want their share... :)

Answer 10

unfortunately , there is no way .some people are poor because they deserve .