why can't we stop poverty?

Answer 1

We can't because poverty is part of reality. If some people are going to be rich, then some people are going to be poor. There are extremes in both directions for everything in life. A better question might be: Why can't we curtail poverty and minimize those living in it? The answer to that question requires some actual thinking, but I'm sure you can follow along.

In the 1960's, part of LBJ's presidential platform was his solemn promise to get those in poverty out of it and put an end to a problem running rampant in the U.S. It was odd to some at the time because then recent figures showed the number of families living in poverty was decreasing in the years before LBJ gained office. Nevertheless, Johnson went ahead crusading against poverty (despite annual decreases) and instituted a number of social programs designed to rid the U.S. of poverty once and for all. Admirable of him, no doubt, but it was also flat out stupid. Economics has a way of making those who don't understand it at all pay for their ignorance. The subsidization of a group of people unwilling to work of course put money in their pockets, but what did that do for them? All it did was alleviate their impoverished situation until the subsidy ran out. Once again, the government handed them a chunk of money until that ran out; you can see where this is going. Years later, figures from before LBJ's social programs were compared to ones gathered during the years of subsidization and the results befuddled everyone; the number of people living in poverty had actually risen. Of course Johnson and his many benevolent constituents were dumbfounded, but that's because they ignored a simple rule of economics. Giving a person unearned income completely destroys their incentive to work. Contrary to popular leftist dogma, the welfare state is one of the worst ideas ever conceived.

A great example of this point is illustrated by the lottery. If after I'm done typing this, I go to the gas station, buy a Powerball ticket and win $62,000,000, you can be sure that I'm not going to be worrying about work for quite some time. And why would I? For doing virtually nothing, I'm now a multimillionaire. The same rules apply to people on welfare: when the government comes along and cuts people a check equal to that which could have been earned legitimately, people immediately recognize that they can beat the system. People aren't stupid; any observant person would recognize that they were just compensated for doing absolutely nothing. When people lose the incentive to work, poverty will only perpetuate itself on society.

The way for poverty to be minimized is to stop subsidizing those unwilling to work. Poverty can never be fully eliminated because someone somewhere will always be transitioning to a new job whether they chose to or not. Even though those transitions can be difficult, it is imperative that the people making them do it on their own so the incentive to provide for themselves and their families remains in tact. Once the government gives them a handout, they'll be stuck in a cycle of poverty, which brings up the importance of learning from past mistakes and not allowing them to rear their ugly heads in the future. It may seem callous to say that someone needs to go through hard times to get to better times, but as I (and history) have shown (albeit crudely), if we don't let these people work out their own problems, you'll be scratching your head and asking 'why can't we stop poverty?' for the rest of your life.

Answer 2

Hunger and World Poverty
About 25,000 people die every day of hunger or hunger-related causes, according to the United Nations. This is one person every three and a half seconds, as you can see on this display. Unfortunately, it is children who die most often.

Yet there is plenty of food in the world for everyone. The problem is that hungry people are trapped in severe poverty. They lack the money to buy enough food to nourish themselves. Being constantly malnourished, they become weaker and often sick. This makes them increasingly less able to work, which then makes them even poorer and hungrier. This downward spiral often continues until death for them and their families.

There are effective programs to break this spiral. For adults, there are “food for work” programs where the adults are paid with food to build schools, dig wells, make roads, and so on. This both nourishes them and builds infrastructure to end the poverty. For children, there are “food for education” programs where the children are provided with food when they attend school. Their education will help them to escape from hunger and global poverty.

Hunger and World Poverty Sources: United Nations World Food Program (WFP), Oxfam, UNICEF.
Note: The world hunger map display above is representational only and does not show the names and faces of real people. The photographs are computer composites of multiple individuals.
Hunger Deaths
This Hour: 946
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Dayo Jogee

Answer 3

Equality in the financial world could never exist, if it did, no one would work at McDonalds, the only reason people work menial labor jobs is out of desperation. The government and these big shot corporations only want you to think they are concerned about poverty, in truth getting rid of poverty would be a wealthy persons worst nightmare. Equality does not exist in the schools or any other form of furthering advancement in our society. Money talks and B.S walks. The people that have the power to change poverty, don't want it to change. That is why we can't get rid of it. They are safe and sound in their nice little beds getting wealthy off the sweat, blood, tears and pain of others. WORK FOR FOOD! HUH, the average American construction worker makes at least $25 to $30 per hour. Thanks for proving my point! ;-)

Answer 4

Its called communism. That was the solution for poverty. When it worked like in East Germany everyone had enough and there was no poor.
In the West it was called trade unions. There was a time in the 50s and 60s in America when unions were strong and everyone earned a relative good wage. But then theres that thing called globalism and america couldnt complete with cheap overseas products. ITs supply and demand. as long as the supply of workers (read NAFTA and european union) is great the wages will be low.
If you are referring to Africa, Egypt, Rome, and all the great civilizations have tried to solve that problem and all have failed. Yet Africa endures well beyond any of the civilizations and will endure beyond ours as well.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

"Poverty" is subjective. The greater the standard of living of a society, the greater the point below which it considers people "impoverished." This is why we can never stop poverty.

Answer 7

we can say that poverty is one of the ancient problems. if we read the history or even the bible, there is an inscription about poverty. in this way we can say that we cannot stop poverty but we can do something to lessen this kind of situation.

Answer 8

We can't stop it because it isn't a discrete problem that can be fixed. If you make the poor comfortable they will breed and make more hungry mouths to feed so poverty increases if you can't afford further handouts. I have a very right wing attitude to this. My family was very poor on one side going back generations but they survived with hard work and self discipline. If you won't take it from me take it from a Nobel prize winning economist who said if you pay people to be poor you'll get more poor people (I can't immediately find the source for that).

Answer 9

That's a dang good question, hun! I've wondered that for years and years.

Why does it cost one hundred million dollars to make a Hollywood movie, yet we can't solve the poverty, hunger, and homeless problems?

What are your thoughts on this?

Cheers

Answer 10

Survival of the fittest still applies and there is not a level playing field out there. As some seeds will land in the fertile soil, others will land on the stony ground. It is impossible to make everyone equal, to give everyone an equal chance, because we are not equal.