What would be the idealized way to end poverty? (what are some conceptual ways)?

Question

What would be the idealized way to end poverty?
what are some conceptual ways to end poverty?

Answer should be "inspirational" // answer should be a pleasant idea, a likeable, understandable solution (like sending the poor to school for example)

(and dont answer: give all the poor money or kill all the poor)

Answer 1

Student loans. If we give student loans to anyone who is poor, they can go to school and then get a job that pays enough to support themselves and pay back the loan. In this way, we can end poverty for free.

Answer 2

It's impossible to answer this question assuming we maintain our current economy, because there simply aren't enough well-paying jobs to lift everyone out of poverty even if they all made the "right choices".

Therefore, whether idealized or conceptual, "ending poverty" requires an enormous technological, economic and ideological shift. Idealistically, we would have to have an economy of self-sustaining individuals where "poverty" wasn't a label determined by income or assets. People would again grow or farm their own food and that would be their jobs. Such an existence would effectively end the status we call poverty.

Conceptually speaking, ending poverty would require an enormously counterintuitive change in the corporate system, effectively ending global industrial capitalism as we know it. Then, companies and corporations would no longer choose the most cost-efficient labor, materials and overhead and would instead only choose the business options that support their local microeconomies. The requisite mutual counterbalance of this would be that we as consumers follow suit, and no longer choose the most cost-efficient products and services and instead choose only those which contribute to our local microeconomies.

Our world needs to turn completely upside-down for poverty to end.

Answer 3

We can banish extreme poverty in our generation--yet 8 million people die each year because they are too poor to survive. The trag edy is that with a little help, they could even thrive. In a bold new book, Jeffrey D. Sachs shows how we can make it happen
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1034738,00.html

Answer 4

force people to work. i realize there is a real need for welfare/social assistance but it is wildy taken advantage of.
those collecting welfare that are deemed fit to work, should be put to work. whether it be cleaning the streets, acting as crossing guards for school kids, raking leaves and debris in city parks, etc. doing daycare for other welfare people so they can go out and do the above mentioned work!
i don't mean this badly, but i believe that people would have more pride in themselves if they earned the money they received. and there is no job too small to have pride in!

my husband believes that all women, who have husbands working, should quit their jobs, stay home and raise their children, and let other men have those very jobs. every home would have one employed person, children would have their mothers home to raise them, care for them, be there for them. that in itself would be a huge bonus for society. imagine, being home to nurture, teach, discipline your own child. imagine raising your own child - perhaps then we wouldn't have such anti-social kids in our midst.
yes it would mean giving up some things, but they are only things, the second car, the dinners out, the fancy vacations, the big houses, all of the 'toys' that some feel are a measure of their status and ego. they are not necessities.
people should live within their means, and their means should be simpler than they are now.
obviously this is not everyone, we have far too many working poor in our world, but if the wife of the high-powered, executive, or the doctor, or lawyer, or ?, gave up her job, it would be a job for an unemployed man to take and enable him to provide for his family.
simplistic? yes.
needs a lot of thought to make it work? yes.
but it would work, it would take time, but it would work.
some of us need to get back down to basics and we need help others get their lifestyle up to the basics!
sorry - a favourite topic of mine! the excess of the ego!!!!

Answer 5

Socialism! Not capitalism