Got $2,200? In this world, you're rich.

Yes. ++

preach it brotha! Amen!

wow dude chill the fuck out, i said it was a good point because it was, i love how you quote me for agreeing with another kids post, but you say jack shit to the person that actually made the post, then you go into a hacked copy and paste job from like wikipedia or some shit.  Honestly, i see there is a problem, thats why in my first post i said "those numbers are crazy though.." , but i have yet to hear a solution, so what the hell am i sopposed to do? how about instead of calling me ignorant for agreeing with someone elses post you brainstorm for a fucking solution to get the people out of poverty.  by the way, good luck with that. because there will always be poverty, unless suddenly everyone in the world thinks with thier heart instead of thier pocket. (theres a longshot).

I actually have studied poverty, specifically poverty in India.  You would be surprised at how many people there have TVs and radios.  The main problem with the whole cleanliness thing is not necessarily that they cannot find a way to get better water or wash their hands, it's more that they don't understand what "clean" really is.  Lifebuoy soap has been trying to spread this piece of knowledge to many villages in India and Africa for the past decade or so.

I'm not saying poverty isn't a problem, because it is.  I do, however, think you have a rather unenlightened view of poverty to be calling other people ignorant.

bahahahha! you are retarded!

I'm glad you've studied india,  which obviously gives you authority for the rest of the impoverished people in the world. I'd be very happy for you to tell me just how many people (out of the 1.6 billion) who live without electricity live with TVs...  and what exactly is unlightened about my view that i didn't recognize that some people do have TV's and that lack an education that most of us consider common sense?

I havent' really posted my "view" of poverty, i've just reiterated the facts about poverty for others to draw the conclusion for themselves.

I'm sorry

I called you and Farp out;

do you think the tribes in Africa care about money?

How about the millions of people in rural china that just farm to survive and don't care about owning a TV or having air conditioning?

The assumed answer for those questions was NO: instead of me telling you the answer is yes I took the liberty of searching the numbers for you so you can figure the answers out yourself.

You even said that there are other ways of measuring wealth, but you failed to understand that these people don't have the "wealth" of proper health care, education, sanitation, or food and water. Then you tried to play it off sounded like impoverished people were fine compairing their life to the life of the amish.


You want a solution -- I understand that it'd be great for someone else to come along and tell you how to live, how to solve the problems, but we live in a world that holds freedom to the highest degree, people don't want to be told what to do.  You've just got to educate yourself on the matters and then allow your education to influence your actions.



There will always be a discrepancy between the rich and the poor--- this does not mean that there will always be poverty.

If you have over 2200 you might be consider rich in a global sense, but regional disparities could have you living under the poverty line anyways.

yea its called RRSPs, registered retirement savings plans
i already have$500 in rrsps! ahah

i feel thats hardly the point and that sort of thinking forgets about the third world,making it easier for us to live as extravegently as we do. 

Along those lines, i bet you could live in NYC or LA for less than $2 a day.  You might be living under a bridge, in an abandoned housing unit, eating out of dumpsters, but bring in a quality of life equal to the "global sense" of poverty and it's absolutely doable.

that is pretty much accounted for. putting things in terms of american dollars is so we americans reading it have an idea of what is being expressed. believe me, the world revolves around the dollar less and less every day. What isn't, though, is buying power across the world, basically relative poverty. (a bum in america could live like a king elsewhere but is still a bum here)

ok. so what? what do you want me to do/say?

No, not really.  I was just pointing out that a lot of the problem is that people don't know what "clean" is, it's not just that it is unattainable for them.

I was just telling you that its not just about numbers, its about what people think and know.  Poverty is more than just numbers, thats all i was telling you.

And letting people draw their own conclusions?  Bullshit, how many people have you called names in this thread?  I by no means am an authority, you are putting words in my mouth.  I was just saying you are also not an authority so you should probably stop calling people "ignorant" when it is obvious that your understanding of poverty is only skin deep.

We're on the same side, stop being a douche bag about this and instead of ramming it down people's throats why don't you just politely explain why they are wrong?

What is wrong with you?  Please since I’ve obviously failed at explaining poverty situation by only putting numbers on the screen, please won't you write up a post responding to those that think that poverty isn't a big deal. Please explain to those that thing everything is fine everywhere in the world, and that the only discrepancy between the USA and Sierra Leone is a flat screen TV and some air conditioning.


Funny you talk about calling people names, when I’ve said that one view was a stupid view, and another related post I’ve said was blatant ignorance of fact, but I haven't called anyone a douche bag or anything like that...glad you set up a low and then stoop down to it.

I'm not putting words in your mouth, I’m simply interpreting your post same as drew did, you come in you tell me the facts don't explain poverty and that because you've studied India specifically YOU understand poverty, you're knowledge is NOT skin deep.  Have you been to India? Have you actually experienced the third world?  I mean actually seeing poverty in the first person would probably give you more than just a skin deep understanding of poverty. But if you've only read about it, studied it in a class or something, how is your understanding of poverty not skin deep?


You think maybe I’m being too harsh with those who dismiss poverty, but to me it's pretty insulting to each individual who dies each day because of poverty. I'm sorry for defending them with a little bit of heart.