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TxRider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-25-09 11:23 AM
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25. We are already doing it
Global trade is deliberate poverty for the west.

Wealth transfer to India and China for example, is deliberate poverty.

China and India are already beginning to transfer wealth elsewhere like Africa and South America.

The western world is lifting the third world like China and India out of poverty and into the first world at the direct cost to our economy and our society (cost to our jobs and wages).

Once the living standards which are rising at a rapid pace in China and India for example reach close to ours, the next places in line will be Africa and S. America as China, India and the west bring the standards of living of those places out of poverty.
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  -Deliberate Poverty bhikkhu  Dec-20-09 12:17 PM   #0 
  - K&R. Looking at it from outside the consumer culture  cliffordu   Dec-20-09 12:20 PM   #1 
  - Deliberate poverty..  ananda   Dec-20-09 12:21 PM   #2 
  - I keep hearing how something is leftist, or liberal, or conservative, etc  bhikkhu   Dec-20-09 12:43 PM   #5 
  - We are already doing it  TxRider   Dec-25-09 11:23 AM   #25 
  - Agree  potisok   Dec-20-09 12:34 PM   #3 
  - This is an idea I have been thinking of a great deal  eilen   Dec-20-09 12:43 PM   #4 
  - I've discussed that with friends as well.  juno jones   Dec-21-09 01:31 AM   #13 
  - "Not doing."  Gregorian   Dec-20-09 01:22 PM   #6 
  - I think my poverty is deliberate these days  Warpy   Dec-20-09 01:32 PM   #7 
  - estate sales are awesome.  pansypoo53219   Dec-20-09 01:55 PM   #8 
     - I've always found them unbearably sad  Warpy   Dec-20-09 04:33 PM   #9 
        - when I die, I hope everyone goes to town with the stuff of my life  babydollhead   Dec-25-09 11:06 AM   #24 
  - good thoughts  G_j   Dec-20-09 06:37 PM   #10 
  - I like this idea and have said that oil depletion will solve as many  jwirr   Dec-20-09 07:08 PM   #11 
  - I'm not a fan of poverty  XemaSab   Dec-20-09 09:47 PM   #12 
  - Perhaps another word would do  bhikkhu   Dec-22-09 01:09 AM   #21 
  - We recently sold and gave away a large portion of our possessions  FedUpWithIt All   Dec-21-09 01:46 AM   #14 
  - I'm on board.  GliderGuider   Dec-21-09 05:27 AM   #15 
  - Have you heard of The Dark Mountain Project?  eilen   Dec-21-09 06:55 AM   #16 
     - I sure have. I love it!  GliderGuider   Dec-21-09 07:50 AM   #17 
        - As do I  eilen   Dec-21-09 05:57 PM   #18 
           - I don't write well enough to submit.  GliderGuider   Dec-21-09 06:17 PM   #20 
  - Or perhaps we need to redefine "WEALTH", and what it really means.  Dover   Dec-21-09 06:10 PM   #19 
  - Certainly, and I think more about happiness than money  bhikkhu   Dec-22-09 01:17 AM   #22 
  - Indeed: Redefine wealth  BeFree   Dec-22-09 08:53 PM   #23 
     - Voluntary Poverty?  Nederland   Dec-25-09 04:39 PM   #26 
     - I'm aware of the hypocritical aspect of it  bhikkhu   Dec-25-09 07:29 PM   #27 
     - ...and about the computer  bhikkhu   Dec-26-09 12:41 AM   #28 
     - Good question  BeFree   Dec-26-09 05:31 PM   #32 
     - That seems to be a disingenuous question.  silverweb   Dec-26-09 06:19 PM   #33 
     - "True wealth is the ability to be generous"  bhikkhu   Dec-27-09 01:40 AM   #36 
  - Absolutely agree.  silverweb   Dec-26-09 11:51 AM   #29 
  - So where do you think healthcare comes from?  TheWraith   Dec-26-09 12:48 PM   #30 
  - Good things are essentially separable  bhikkhu   Dec-26-09 01:29 PM   #31 
  - So, we all have to have iPhones and Hummers and McMansions in order  kestrel91316   Dec-26-09 07:13 PM   #35 
  - I don't think of it as "deliberate poverty" but rather "simple living".  kestrel91316   Dec-26-09 06:52 PM   #34 
  - great post!  amborin   Dec-27-09 02:35 AM   #37 
  - I prefer the term "Voluntary Simplicity" for essentially the same concept  Electric Monk   Dec-27-09 03:03 AM   #38 
  - I would be calling this deliberate self worth and holistically minded  flow_urgirl   Dec-27-09 07:29 AM   #39 
     - Well said. And may I add,  GliderGuider   Dec-27-09 09:58 AM   #40 
 

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