What is the most important problem to be fixed immediately? Is it greediness or poverty?

Answer 1

Greediness. If we fix the greediness, the poverty will be fixed as well (because people will WANT to give since they are not greedy). It's like hitting two birds with one stone.

Answer 2

Yeah, I'd have to go with greediness here too.

I mean, we've only tried to fix poverty for decades in a culture where we let Big Business pretty much own it all, and it doesn't *stay* fixed....

I mean, this is as simple as it gets: Big Business gets greedy, wants to make as much money as possible while *spending* as little as possible on capital, *human or otherwise*. Meaning? They outsource every last job they can to Kyrgyzstan or some other low-rent hole where there are no unions, no child labor laws, and where folks think *sweatshops* are just peachy (and well, compared to prostitution and indentured servitude, they are).

Meaning jobs are lost, and don't come back, and these lost jobs *overwhelmingly* hit the poor and middle-class. Which makes everyone but the CEOs out of work and destitute at some point...and the only reason that point keeps getting pushed back is because in a globalist *plantation* economy, there is no bottom to the rabbit hole, if the money supply and/or demand dry up in one part of the world (one nation), you outsource to the *next cheapest one* on down.

And we haven't even come close to hitting the labor market in the *starving* nations of East Africa, where the economy is so utterly broken that people still work for pennies a day (average daily wage in Kenya is about *fifty cents* in U.S. money--per DAY).

So...do you really think *poverty* can be fixed in such an economy? I don't think it can be, because the CEOs, the richest of the rich, *demand* that poverty not only continue, but that wages and standards of living *must* be driven to rock bottom (think East African misery and death) to maximize their profits.

The CEO agenda, as it stands now, is *solidly against* fixing poverty in any meaningful way and if they had their way, it would be *Much* worse. Because *Much worse* for us means *more cash* for them.

So poverty, in the current system, cannot possibly be fixed. The only fix in the current system is to concentrate more and more of the planet's wealth into fewer and fewer hands as the rest of the planet (both people and ecosystems) just plain *rot* in barbaric misery.

So....you have to *change the system*. The paradigm of Greed Uber Alles (Greed Over All) has to be thrown out with some prejudice and *replaced* pronto with an ethic of problem solving.

Only then can poverty be solved as a problem, instead of exploited as the Last Growth Sector of a Post-Peak-Oil Plantation Economy.

Answer 3

Greediness can be alot of form that's the main source of poverty.
For example corruption,manipulation,abuse of power,bribery and much more.Imagine if you are on board of boat in the middle of ocean no radio contact, an the boat is leaking at the same time you are starving.Of course you will fix the leak first because is an urgecy.
The leaking boat is resemble greediness.Your starvation is resemble poverty.How much money sent to poor country but they still poor nothing change but the goverment officials of those country get richer.

Answer 4

Since fixing greediness could correct poverty, I will have to go with greediness

Answer 5

I think that the two go hand-in-hand. If the rich were not so greedy, the less fortunate wouldn't face poverty to such a degree.

Answer 6

Neither. "Greediness" and poverty don't kill people. Healthcare and traffic do. Between 40,000 and 100,000 Americans (estimates vary) die every year from preventable medical mistakes; another 40,000 are killed in traffic accidents.

Answer 7

poverty

Answer 8

Neither -- it is need -- more specifically it is unlimited wants and needs compared to limited resources. If something needs to be fixed it is needing and wanting more than we can satisfy with our resources.