• GlitzyArmrest@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I highly doubt that poverty will ever be eradicated, unless we do something like shoot billionaires into the sun once they reach a billion.

  • Ann Archy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Poverty will never be eradicated, what kind of nonsense is that? The poverty is a feature of capitalism, not a bug.

  • paddirn@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Right, I’m sure there’s actually plans to eradicate poverty… more likely there’s plans to eradicate the impoverished.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    Poverty will never be eradicated. At no point in human civilization have we managed to eliminate poverty, and as long as there are rich people needing to extract maximum profits from fellow humans there will always be poor people.

  • Dr. Moose@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It only makes sense that we collectively eat the first trillionaire.

    Tbh I’d guess that it’s unlikely that we’ll have a trillionaires at all. Hiding wealth will become easier and easier and I don’t think anyone wants that rep in “eat the billionaires” sort of public climate.

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      I agree about hiding wealth and all that, but is the public climate actually “eat the billionaires?” Because I basically only see that in left-wing spaces. Normies still seem to be doing a ton of boot licking tbh. I do live in a pretty conservative area though so maybe that’s biased?

  • Alexstarfire@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    We have far greater productivity than at any other point in human history and we still have tons of poverty, even in places like the EU and US. I believe we have the capability but not the willingness. Who’s to say we’ll ever have the willingness.

  • ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Sweet, I could be a trillonaire by the time poverty will be eradicated. All I have to do is save $498,500 every single hour until then.

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    1 year ago

    That 229 figure is bullshit. Either all the impoverished will perish, be killed, or move underground into a less opulent/more satisfying culture where rat burgers reign supreme well before then or the real number is “fuck off you poor piece of trash.”