Reply #266: The truth is poverty itself should be seen as intolerable.

[Sinti]

No one should live in poverty, it's an unnecessary and unnatural phenomenon. Human beings CHOOSE to have poverty as part of their existence, just as they CHOOSE to permit extreme wealth to gather. There are poor people, because people are left idle. They have no jobs, or jobs that pay far too little.

No human being should ever be impoverished for lack of usefulness. Employers that pay wages that are too low to maintain life should be looked down upon as vermin. At this time, we all survive by the favor of a handful of individuals who control far too much of the resources and land. Oddly enough, the more affluent nations become, the more access they have to health care and contraception, the fewer children they have.

Don't ever give me the argument about people creating pollution and limitations of resources - we create DISPOSABLE items. Actions speak louder than words. We could create everything to last as long as possible, be recyclable, and produce zero waste in manufacture. This doesn't get looked into, let alone done, because it is not profitable to those that own every thing.

People often take care of their parents/grandparents. This has nothing to do with income level. I wouldn't have let any one else take care of my grandmother or mother. Unlike for some here, it wasn't a punishment or a theft of my youth - I was in my early 20s. Since when is caring for aging relatives some sort of slavery? They are family... of course you care for them. Nursing homes are meant for people who did not have children. I can't imagine what kind of emotional pain it would have put them through to put them somewhere as they aged and faded into the sunset. What kind of mean families do you have to come from to see it that way? Wow... culture shock.

Lyric, the whole world is build upside down. We have to fix it before it kills the whole human race. The important thing in having kids is loving the kids you have - like pets I think there is a limit to how many you can properly care for. My personal limit was one - I'm like that. For others I'm sure it's different.

Edited to add the word "of"