would you donate $1 per week out of your pay so it could happen?
2007-09-22 20:50:12 · 7 answers · asked by Didy 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
No I mean through organizations such as aid abroad (africa) Red Cross Salvation Army poverty sticken countries
2007-09-22 20:59:54 · update #1
Hello Didy! I am donating 1% of the money I earn each month. Read my question here. It's very similar to yours.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AkGp_DAMyz6ekunBBbIkT4fty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20061220185045AAOQaJE
2007-09-23 00:06:27 · answer #1 · answered by Alexander K 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It wouldn't change anything for good. For poor people would stay poor. For $1 is not enough.
What is poverty but the expression of inequality? In other words, poor people are poor when compared to much richer people. But, as soon as such discrepancy is eradicated (in a given country and through enforced communism, for example) then the use of the adjective "poor" disappears (or is even "politically incorrect" or inappropriate) because no difference of income and privilege arises. But, once more, it doesn't solve the problem because, truly everyone is poor in the sense that many goods of consumption and certain comfort are banned-like (owing to the impossibility to afford them). So, we see that any attempt to eradicate poverty inescapably leads to authoritarian and intolerant forms of collectivism hostile to the notion of individual freedom.
On a case-by-case basis, some attempts to financially help some poor countries have been repeatedly attempted. But, in the end, it doesn't work for two reasons.
When thus helped, poor people typically begin to rely on subsidies and stop to look for solutions of their own. In the end, those people do no thank those who give. They treat those who stop to give and even those who don't give them enough!
Also, in most instances, financial helps and food sent to poor countries and their people end in the hands of clans, mafias, bands, and local thugs for their own profit. In some cases, those mischievous persons use this profit as a way to finance their own war against those who sent them those goods and money!
Poverty is a by-product of freedom and individual liberty. Alexis de Tocqueville first noticed that the richer and more affluent a society is, the more poors are to be found in it, and the more you'll find prisons and jailed criminals in it.
You can always "eradicate" poverty. But this option has a dire price: freedom, individual liberty, and democracy.
You begin with $1 a week per person; you'll end with much more, and thus you'll make, unintentionally, a communist society. And we all sadly know how life in communist countries is.
2007-09-23 04:24:26 · answer #2 · answered by Space Bluesman 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First you should define Poverty before you help change. You should know what you are trying to change at all.
It is true that many , many in the USA particularly , think that Indians are poor as they donot have washing amchine and they are washing clothes with their hands! If you subcribe to this line of thinking India and africa will always be poor.
Measure of happiness, on a scale of 1 to 10 , could be an indicator of poverty. This measure will include food, shelter , clothes , spirituality, quality of life , life expectancy .....etc. You will be shocked to find that the average person in egypt is far far happier than an average westerner.
2007-09-23 03:59:46 · answer #3 · answered by YD 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Money doesn't solve the problem now or for the long term.
Stop having children that you cannot afford. In 2003, 25,000 children died EACH day because people who cannot afford to feed their children allowed them to die of starvation. The problem is the behaviour, not money.
2007-09-23 09:30:30 · answer #4 · answered by guru 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its pointless to help, its meant to be that way.
Without poor people, you cant' have the life that you have right now.
They make the world's largest expendable workforce becase they are so desperate for money that they are willing to do crummy jobs for low pay.
You can't have you NIKEs and junks like that without poor folks.
Poor people also make great expendable soldiers.
JUST let them be!
2007-09-23 03:56:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
no, i am not feeding cruel malicious beggars who are too lazy to work and pull faces at you once you've passed them. there are people who deserve such donations, but money never seem to get where they should
2007-09-23 03:56:46 · answer #6 · answered by narcissa 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Why not? As long as this one dollar will be used for build work-fields for them... And someday in the future, they can be independent.
If not, i am not willing to.
2007-09-23 04:03:55 · answer #7 · answered by Tuan Ingin Tahu 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋