Who or what is resposible for the spread of excessive poverty in the world and what is the solution?

Question

The world reports indicate that about half of the world population is suffering from severe poverty while there are hundreds of super rich people in the world. Since both, the extreme poverty and the extreme affluence, are detrimental for any individual, why then not find a system that strikes the balance between these two extremes?

Answer 1

It's a combination of rampant capitalism and the failure of a political system which is only interested in short term policies based on the need to be re-elected, which requires the financial support of big business.
Communism does not solve any of these problems.
What is needed is a system where politicians have to work with funds allocated from taxes and not accept money from any other source. That would completely change the way they operate.

Answer 2

If you are in a part of the world suffering from severe poverty, it is most likely the government's descisions that put you in that position. When you are supressed by those governments, you have no food and no education, you're probably not going to escape.
The very wealthy people are born into wealth in countries only concerned with the all mighty dollar. They have the opportunity to be educated well and have a diet rich in vitamins. If they are smart they will pay attention in school and fend for themselves in the world.

So simply what I'm saying is that, its where your born into that makes you what you are, impoverished or not. And from then on out it is, unfortunately up to that individual to devise a way unto what they want in life. That struggle of finding riches or remaining in poverty can be terribly easy based on the tools the person or vise versa. Sometimes there is no option.
If we had a system that equalized monies out, to make worldly communism the governments wouldn't be able to control the peoples of the world.
They don't want that, the want control because war is money.
We wouldn't have any borders. The only border would be the launguage barrier.
It would probably be heaven on Earth, you're absolutely right.

Answer 3

Poverty is not caused, it was the state of most of humanity throughout history. Only in the that last couple of centuries have societies existed that had the majority of the population not living in poverty. Often in the past and in some poverty stricken countries the rich got their wealth by taking from others, but in the non poor countries most of the rich get their wealth by making contributions that add to every ones welfare. The solution must be sharing the system that allows people to rise out of poverty not the money, although it will take some money, or you will end up making everyone poor, not everyone rich.

Answer 4

im gonna blame capitalism to some extent. The nature of globalizing capitalism hinges to a degree on a notion that capital can continue moving and replicating at increasing speeds. However, as many social theorists have argued, the profit potential in capitalism is solely based in the concept that human labor has the potential to create profit (though this of course is altered to some degree as a result of new practices of commodification of use-values) the principle is still essential to capitalism on a theorectical level. As a result there must always be a labor force (which is increasing becoming stratified globally) in order to create this labor surplus value which creates the profit which is so desperatly sought after. Therefore, the faster capital moves, the more likely that the countries in which labor is performed will struggle to adapt at the high speeds, and as a result will lag behind. This will only contribute to an increasing divide, as even though the barries to entry to markets are falling, many countries are unable (for a wide range of reasons, not purely economic) to adapt to the global system. Though capitalism perhaps provides the opperutnity for the individual or nation to improve their station in the world scheme, it rarely works out as beautifully as it is so often trumped up to be.

Answer 5

Overpopulation and excessive media influence are what brings this phenomenon to a more global awareness.

Think in a historical perspective- there have always been huge numbers of poor people in comparison to the wealthy and powerful (think surfdom). Besides that,
capitalism and a non-agrarian economy versus a collective, only take what you need stance excaserbate the problem.
Its never going to go away- it never has. Human nature.

Answer 6

Excess poverty did not "spread", what spread is growth.

Relative to today's living standards, everyone was "excessively poor" 300 years ago; some countries grew and other did not.

The question you should be asking is "what causes economic growth", as that is obviously the key to eliminating poverty.

Answer 7

"Spread"? Your first mistake is assuming poverty is "spreading". What, do you think that at some time in the past everyone lived in some golden age of wealth and luxury, and then poverty started spreading like a disease? Did you just land on Earth from your home planet?

Perhaps you should invest some time gaining some awareness of history. Poverty is very much the natural state of man. Wealth and comfort are very artificial, hard-won inventions with a brief history. The miracle is that there are people who do NOT live in poverty, and in fact hundreds of millions of people in recent decades have been lifted out of poverty.

Answer 8

it has a dual-answer, the rich nations of the world buying up everything and the poor nations having so many people that it is not enough to "go around". poor nations not using population-control techniques like birth control or planned parenting.

Answer 9

work hard to improve your lot and those around you....i.e your neighbours community etc.
Jesus said that......'the poor you will always have with you'..........

Answer 10

laziness