The people complaining about poverty in the USA have probably never seen real poverty or oppression.
I recall a clip from many years ago, a skinny guy in India said, I want to go to America, all of the poor people are fat.
Great article.
I lived in a toilet country for a while (my company sent me there on business).
On the bus one day, the police made a routine check for tickets.
One poor slob didn’t have a ticket.
The police manhandled him off the bus and beat the holy hell out of him. Bruises, blood, probably broken bones — the works.
Just for not having a bus ticket.
When I was teaching the Into to Econ class to freshman, most exhibited the “cake-and-eat-it-too” mentality. We were talking about poverty and the same discussion came up. I told them I could end poverty in the US overnight. At the time, poverty was defined as $9600/yr for a family of 4. (I’ve been retired a long time!) They begged me to tell them how. I told them: “You gather up all the people making $9600/yr or less and then you shoot them.” Their eyes went as big a hubcaps! After the got over the shock, I asked: “How long will it taking before the people making $9601/yr start bitching about being the poorest people in the land?” The idea was that poverty is a relative term. We went on to have a meaningful discussion about income, income distribution, and economic systems (e.g., capitalism vs socialism). It also pointed out that you have to be careful what you wish for.
Poverty can be eliminated through the implementation of a capitalist economic system. Capitalism, which promotes private property rights and the freedom to trade, encourages individuals to produce goods and services that others value, leading to wealth creation and economic growth. Also, government intervention in the economy, such as taxes and regulations, can impede economic growth and prolong poverty. To end poverty, reducing government intervention, lowering taxes, and protecting private property rights to allow for the free market to flourish, is necessary