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Poverty from: http://www.urgentevoke.com/profiles/blogs/how-to-stop-poverty-but-ill
While Dan has put in many valid statements I believe that something else can be said. One of my teachers had a cousin who was very impoverished. Even though he had inherited most of the estate but he did not wish to do anything. It proves that it is mind over matter, or in this case money. To stay in a state that is not impoverished one must first and foremost want to earn a living. This state of mind may be brought on by many things such as substance abuse, and trauma.
Other places such as Calgary during the oil boom had tons of people earning more money than the average person and living on the streets because they could not afford housing. To the average person they aren't impoverished. They're right! They aren't impoverished, they're homeless. There is a big difference. I I could easily use $10 and spend it all on caffeine or McDonald's and not sleep in a bed. Again to fight poverty is to fight against what many people think. Many believe that if a homeless person looks for a job that they used to be on drugs. The sad fact is that is true for most people not in third world countries. We look at Africa and yet we avoid the problems on our own doorstep. Caffeine is a drug, fat and sugar in high quantities have the same affect as heroin. I like that you are rooting out these problems but what makes people impoverished isn't always black and white. We can't say this happened to this person so... because it is different for everyone. You can't define the causes of poverty the only thing you can do is prevent as many of them as possible. It is like shooting a rifle at a deer in a blindfold with headphones on listening to Lady Gaga, it's impossible, for now. You can hit the target and it is easier if you do it on a massive scale with 100 dear and are listening to some smooth jazz.
When everyone tries to aim for a single goal achieving that goal becomes easier. If you know what your aiming for it is even easier. One of the best organizations aiming to fight poverty (including this wh*** food security issue (tying it in with evoke)) os the Salvation Army. This goes back to charity though, they give people food without giving them jobs to earn food, while this is a good start this will never solve the problem. A great way to solve this problem (heard it in the news a while back) was in Central America where those who could not get food were given rabbits to sell at a market, some for food, some to make a living.
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Comment by Dan Plukhin on March 10, 2010 at 3:43am
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I have to agree, the idea in itself is completely and utterly silly (though I don't see how the change in music could help you shoot deer when you're blindfolded anyway). Admittedly I was spamming out blog posts and had urgently wanted to try the wh*** "user community" thing.. :(
However I do think we can at least fix certain degrees of poverty (the world bank would define that as "the state of living on less than $2 a day" (Which I integrated into this blog post)), such as drug addictions and whatnot.
Problems in third-world countries being fixed to some degree by microfinancing organizations like Kiva. But yes, we can't solve it all with a snap of our fingers.
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