Does this talk about fighting "extreme poverty" bother anybody else? [View all]

[Ken Burch]

Last edited Sat Oct 18, 2014, 01:14 AM - Edit history (1)

Obviously, it's a moral and social blight on the planet for anyone to be kept poor.

But the whole notion of singling out "extreme poverty" from other forms of poverty really disturbs me.

Poor is poor...it's not as if keeping people at one level of poverty is unacceptable, but keeping them slightly LESS impoverished is ok.

And who decided that the world's bazillionaires are the people who should be determining who is "too poor" and who is "not poor enough"?

If we're gonna talk about poverty, let's talk about ending ALL poverty. And if the current system needs SOME poverty to keep going, then let's replace it with something new. It's not as if we can't damn well do better.