How can one eliminate poverty?

Answer 1

Being very literal, one (1) can not eliminate poverty alone. One person can likely ease the level of poverty for a limited number of others, depending on the wealth of the "one." One, however, can engage, encourage, organize others to address the poverty of even more others. Only by a collective of individuals with wealth, resources, desire and commitment, and a long term plan, could a significant dent be made in poverty around the world.

Answer 2

The only way you can eliminate poverty is to also eliminate the opposite status.

When you give a poverty-stricken family money, it has to come from somewhere, and the people who have it, aren't going to give it up easily.

Answer 3

We can eliminate poverty by changing the way we think and by adopting new paradigms.
If our priority is to devise ever more powerful weapons of destruction of other human beings and accumulate them, then we can hardly expect to be concerned at the same time about the well being of others.
Poverty is the consequence of the wrong way of thinking of mankind. It would disappear *in an instant* if we changed the way we think.
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Answer 4

You can't eliminate poverty unless you eliminate wealth.
The communists strived to eliminate poverty and we all know now that it's simply not possible.

Answer 5

Honestly...I don't think *anyone* has the guts to say the right thing.

The truth is....the wealthiest One Percent of the planet have *so much* excess wealth that it just boggles description. We are talking about people with 30-60 *Billion* U.S. dollars, like Bill Gates and crap. Each *Billion* is a *thousand Million* folks, or the *cube* (third power) of a *thousand bucks*, which is still considered "a lot of money" in the rest of the world.

Are you beginning to see the *scale* of the differences here between the richest of the rich and the poor? Most poor folks don't even make a *cube root* of what the Billionaires do. Most Billionaire CEOs make 400-1000 *times* the income a year that their lowest paid workers do.

That in a nutshell, is the problem. Not wealth, but that so few people hog *so much money* that it's just not *relevant wealth* anymore. Meaning, your One Percenters could lose *half* of their net worth tomorrow and *NOT* feel a thing. It just wouldn't matter to them, outside of what their clique of peers would say.

Basically, wealth like that only matters as a *privative*, or as money *denied* other people. Having *that much* money under your control only serves to keep other people down. It can't possibly be spent. It can't possibly be invested directly in ways that don't *damage* the economy for other members of the clique.

We need *some* wealth to make the world go around, yes, but *NOBODY* needs to be a damn fool Billionaire. Not dozens of times over. You can't fly in *two* Lear Jets at once people!

So....I'll say it even if no one else has the guts to.

The problem is not Wealth per se, but the Concentration thereof. It's about the Top One Percent having *so much* of the world's wealth that the bottom 20-30% worldwide are giving up hope. World wide, as an average, *as well as within nations*.

So....we get rid of the Billionaires. Pure and simple. The wealth of the Top One Percent *alone* could eliminate *all* of Africa's debts, or the debts of the entire bottom *half* of the world's population. But that's not what I suggest.

What I have in mind is humbler.

Nobody should have to *pay money* for food.

Nobody should have to *pay money* for a basic, humble roof over one's head.

Nobody on this planet has any business being illiterate.

Simply put....we could take the wealth, just from the Billionaires, the Top One Percent, and within 10 years *eliminate* hunger, homelessness, and illiteracy *ENTIRELY* from this planet.

Is this worth doing? Hells yeah, that would lessen the pain of poverty in absolute terms quite quickly.

Will it happen? Hell no. The top One Percenters are just too greedy and sociopathic in their greed.

Not to mention, if the poorest of our poor weren't a *horrorshow* to behold, like the alcohol-crippled farmers of South Africa's "dop" system, or like the Hillbillies living in shacks in our own Appalachian Mountains, other people wouldn't feel so pressured to *suck up to* the rich guys, now would they?

Without a scapegoat, the Filthy Rich can't cheat to win, so they will never give that advantage up, not even in the most minimal sense of the word.

But hey, you just asked "how", not "if", right?

Thanks for your time. -_-

Answer 6

1. By eliminating class systems; 2. The rich distributing their wealth with the poor; 3. By eliminating the concept of money all together - and live off the land.

Answer 7

perhaps by changing the definition (standards). Poverty level in this country is comfort to a family in another country, and vice-versa. Political systems that have tried over time to eliminate it have always failed.

Answer 8

You cannot eliminate poverty - it is the natural state of mankind.

It is material wealth which is un-natural. It does not exist in nature anywhere.

Poverty is our natural state of being. We are born with nothing and we die leaving everything behind us. We are meant to live a hand-to-mouth existence for the sake of our mental and physical health and well being.

I point to our out-of-balance system (the status quo) as proof.

Wealth (ie: money, chattel, etc...) is meaningless, temporary and man-made. Do not believe in it.

Answer 9

By eliminating what little bit of poverty you actually have control over. Go out and make a s.h.i.t. load of money. Then you're one less number in the poverty statistic.

Doug

Answer 10

I don't know if you can eliminate it but it could help a lot if power, control and greed were eliminated and we all shared what we had enough of with those who didn't have as much and visa versa.