The BBC is running a stupid piece titled “Oxfam seeks ‘new deal’ on inequality from world leaders” which makes the idiotic case that:
The 100 richest people in the world earned enough last year to end extreme poverty suffered by the poorest on the planet four times over, Oxfam has said.
Really? For how long? What happens when these poor people spend all their money at the nuddie bar? The mistake made by the class warriors who so hate the rich, is that these wealth redistributionist morons think poverty is caused by a lack of money. Reality is that lack of money is symptom of poverty and a cause, not the effect/reason.
I stand by my belief that if we magically could spread all the world’s wealth equally amongst all people right now, by the end of a week we would yet again have poverty, people demanding they be given more because they are now worse off than others, and despicable scumbags taking advantage of these people that feel entitled people’s stupidity to make themselves even richer.
The poor tend to be poor because they generally are prone to making bad choices, and/or live in places where terrible behavior and denial of freedoms make it impossible for any kind of prosperity. Man is inherently evil, and the left hates that concept because it makes their Utopian view impossible to ever achieve. The best way out of poverty is education and the ability to find work. Not all will succeed, and poverty will never be eradicated. It’s a human condition that will forever be there. What the left wants to do, and frankly has spent the last 100 years doing, always results in the only possible outcome, and a disastrous one: a small group of elite hold tyrannical power over the rest, whom are all poor.
Here is Heinlein on this subject:
“Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.This is known as “bad luck.”
Frankly, after more than 6 decades of the “War on Poverty”, I think the leftists have given us a lot more of it than we had at any time. Then again, when your jobs is to “fight poverty” fixing that means you are out of a job. I am not saying that anyone can fix poverty, just pointing out the left has created the perfect job for themselves. Poverty will never go away, in fact they have given us more of it, and they are perpetually employed.