One Stunning Stat Shows Just How Bad Worldwide Poverty Has Become - Polidicks

Solution, the 1% enslaves the whole world and exterminates them slowly killing off poverty until one day the whole world is only populated by rich people thus solving poverty forever more.

[QUOTE=Chopstick;45613536]Solution, the 1% enslaves the whole world and exterminates them slowly killing off poverty until one day the whole world is only populated by rich people thus solving poverty forever more.[/QUOTE] what do you think chemtrails and vaccines are for wake up 8~) [editline]7th August 2014[/editline] das a joke ladies and gentlemen

Well, it's only fair, those 85 people work harder than those 3.5 billion people. About 41,176,470 times harder.

[QUOTE=NixNax123;45609819]off-topic: why does every article always have clickbait titles now it seems like it's trivializing the actual news just so the publisher can get ad revenue which is disgusting[/QUOTE] Well selling paper newspaper isn't profitable anymore and they gotta make money somehow.

I thought poverty was actually decreasing worldwide? (inequality =/= poverty)

[QUOTE=Mitsudigi;45610849]It's the truth. As you get older you start to realize there's jack shit you can really do. Capitalism just doesn't seem to work without creating massive inequality and exploitation somewhere along the line.[/QUOTE] this assumes inequality and exploitation didn't exist before capitalism or was somehow less worse in reality, inequality and exploitation was much much worse before the development of capitalism

[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;45609945][img]http://www.toonpool.com/user/1631/files/the_abyss_of_inequality_307515.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] what's with the chickens in the wheelbarrow is this some sort of weird cultural disconnect

I was listening to the BBC world service last night and they had a psychologist on explaining that a large portion of the incredibly wealthy are psychopaths who had horrible childhoods, and the reason they wanted such wealth and power was a way to mitigate the horrible circumstances they were raised in. Their ability to not give a shit about other people and to elbow others out of the way is perfect for a business atmosphere. These wealthy people on average tend to give less money to charity and are, in the words of the psychologist, "unlikeable." It makes sense why head CEOs will lay off thousands of people for profits, continue to pollute our environment to save a quick buck and continue to help keep the horrible economic inequality we have as the status quo. Of course there are good wealthy people who offset this trend but they are few and far between.

[QUOTE=Emperorconor;45610201]title is misleading, worldwide poverty has actually been declining [url]http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2013/04/17/remarkable-declines-in-global-poverty-but-major-challenges-remain[/url] i think the op means "inequality", which of course is a big problem but poverty has massively declined in the past few decades[/QUOTE] The article is just terrible. Like, look at this gif: [IMG]http://media2.policymic.com/96989a9facc6d8a7ab15d7c967b622e6.gif[/IMG] It's going faster than a sports car (anything before 1967 is a blur) and the y axis is not well fitted for actually showing a change in the admittedly very low average income. And how did they even get data for Africa from the early 20th century? Are there actually any meaningful statistics? I realise that the gif is supposed to convey the growing inequality, but it's still very misleading. And inequality isn't (really) a problem if the baseline is becoming an acceptable standard - there'll always be rich people, we just need to make sure that the poor people aren't getting totally shafted. Like, I agree that this is a concerning statistic, but it's neither really news nor really relevant in my opinion.

I would rather have more inequality with less absolute poverty then less inequality with more absolute poverty.

[QUOTE=lifehole;45613838]I thought poverty was actually decreasing worldwide? (inequality =/= poverty)[/QUOTE] Yeah despite the whole sensationalist pessimism thing going on, the fact is that worldwide poverty and crime rates have basically been going down for the past two centuries.

[QUOTE=SleepyAl;45614597]I was listening to the BBC world service last night and they had a psychologist on explaining that a large portion of the incredibly wealthy are psychopaths who had horrible childhoods, and the reason they wanted such wealth and power was a way to mitigate the horrible circumstances they were raised in. Their ability to not give a shit about other people and to elbow others out of the way is perfect for a business atmosphere. These wealthy people on average tend to give less money to charity and are, in the words of the psychologist, "unlikeable." It makes sense why head CEOs will lay off thousands of people for profits, continue to pollute our environment to save a quick buck and continue to help keep the horrible economic inequality we have as the status quo. Of course there are good wealthy people who offset this trend but they are few and far between.[/QUOTE] They should do a series like hoarders about those that hoard capital and property and what they do on a day to day basis and how they treat people.

[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;45614708]And inequality isn't (really) a problem if the baseline is becoming an acceptable standard - there'll always be rich people, we just need to make sure that the poor people aren't getting totally shafted. Like, I agree that this is a concerning statistic, but it's neither really news nor really relevant in my opinion.[/QUOTE] inequality is actually one of the underlying causes of the 2007 recession. wage growth for the bottom 95% of earners for the US slowed down, but consumption did not. people then tended to make up for the gap using loans, the instability of which eventually getting to a point that it helped trigger the credit crunch and thus the recession. income inequality at its theoretical core is not bad, yes, but when other factors interact with it, there can be tangible consequences.

[QUOTE=sgman91;45614736]I would rather have more inequality with less absolute poverty then less inequality with more absolute poverty.[/QUOTE] Poverty is relative. If everyone in the world made 10K a year, things simply wouldn't cost as much and no one would be impoverished.

[QUOTE=urbanmonkey;45623375]Poverty is relative. If everyone in the world made 10K a year, things simply wouldn't cost as much and no one would be impoverished.[/QUOTE] absolute poverty isnt relative, hence the use of "absolute"