How would you solve poverty

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#1 cyberdarkkid
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If you had the power to (not super powers) and support to come with a solution for poverty around the world. Btw we can't get rid of it completely, but what would be the best thing we can do?

I want to hear your ideas.

I'll share my ideas later, I want to see if I can relate them to yours first.

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#2 weezyfb
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if america used what the billions we spend on dog products we could feed everyone
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#3 lol_haha_dead
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Give all 6.7 billion people a million dollars.
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#4 avatar_genius
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Just conserve my resources and stuff.

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#5 Saturos3091
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Kill everyone. That way I am the richest person in the world! :twisted:

And also the poorest. :cry:

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#6 chAzN93
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Give all 6.7 billion people a million dollars.lol_haha_dead
that would just break everyone back to where they started...
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#7 cyberdarkkid
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Kill everyone. That way I am the richest person in the world! :twisted:

And also the poorest. :cry:

Saturos3091

Leave someone else alive. >_>

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#8 avatar_genius
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Kill everyone. That way I am the richest person in the world! :twisted:

And also the poorest. :cry:

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Winning by technicality isn't really winning.

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#9 -Chimera-
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[QUOTE="Saturos3091"]

Kill everyone. That way I am the richest person in the world! :twisted:

And also the poorest. :cry:

avatar_genius

Winning by technicality isn't really winning.

You are correct. Winning by technicality is really really winning. In fact, killing everyone would solve all of our problems. Why didn't we think of it sooner?

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#10 avatar_genius
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[QUOTE="avatar_genius"]

[QUOTE="Saturos3091"]

Kill everyone. That way I am the richest person in the world! :twisted:

And also the poorest. :cry:

-Chimera-

Winning by technicality isn't really winning.

You are correct. Winning by technicality is really really winning. In fact, killing everyone would solve all of our problems. Why didn't we think of it sooner?

You can't solve problems if there aren't any problems to begin with.

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#11 chAzN93
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[QUOTE="Saturos3091"]

Kill everyone. That way I am the richest person in the world! :twisted:

And also the poorest. :cry:

cyberdarkkid

Leave someone else alive. >_>

great idea

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#12 Saturos3091
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[QUOTE="Saturos3091"]

Kill everyone. That way I am the richest person in the world! :twisted:

And also the poorest. :cry:

avatar_genius

Winning by technicality isn't really winning.

Of course it's not. Maybe we should just kill all the poor people instead. :P Seriously though, I have no idea how you could possibly end poverty if you had a means to do so. Give everyone a million dollars and people are still poor--just now the poorest people on earth have a million dollars(not to mention the huge inflation, etc. that would occur from that). Now giving people the means to succeed and become wealthy would be fine (which is what we have done, although of course it's not perfect and does need refining).

If they still fail, then it was their fault and they should have to either live with their situation or try to improve it.

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#13 trubluah
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Get rid of money around the world and spank the greedy people to get over themselves. Once all money is gone and the world works for a better future, we can then solve poverty.
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#14 effena
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Solving poverty is impossible, especially in capitalistim. A lot of people are just stupid with their spending habits.

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#15 XD4NTESINF3RNOX
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send them all to California sounds like the perfect plan
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#16 SerbWarrior
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Communism, its a glorious system comrade XD

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#17 Espada12
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Communism is the only way. But it literally requires jesus to be the communist leader though, unless we can find an uncorruptable politician but where would we get one of those? :)

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#18 SerbWarrior
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I was just kidding,i think the only way to solve poverty,is to destroy any form of currency.

Dollar,dinar,yen,euro,pound,etc.etc.

Just stop all of that and we will be equal.

Of course,the rich and powerful will never let this happen,not to mention that you would have to give up on manny luxiries.

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#19 deactivated-5cf4b2c19c4ab
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set off all the nukes in the world at once. That would get rid of poverty and everything else
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#20 psychobrew
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You can't solve poverty. Handouts don't work, and as the saying goes -- you can lead a horse to water but you can't force it to drink.

You aslo need to define poor. There are many cultures (tribes) that don't even have a currency, but they get along fine. Look at the Bushmen in Africa or the Amazon tribes (some of which have never metanyone outside their own people -- there was a news story about one of these tribe shaking a spear at an airplane a year or so ago).

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#21 psychobrew
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Communism is the only way. But it literally requires jesus to be the communist leader though, unless we can find an uncorruptable politician but where would we get one of those? :)

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Everybody lives in poverty in communist countries, so that wouldn't work. The poor in the western world live much better than those in third world countries (which communist nations tend to be).
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#22 Espada12
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[QUOTE="Espada12"]

Communism is the only way. But it literally requires jesus to be the communist leader though, unless we can find an uncorruptable politician but where would we get one of those? :)

psychobrew

Everybody lives in poverty in communist countries, so that wouldn't work. The poor in the western world live much better than those in third world countries (which communist nations tend to be).

If everyone is poor then everyone is rich as well as everyone is poor!

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#23 SerbWarrior
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[QUOTE="Espada12"]

Communism is the only way. But it literally requires jesus to be the communist leader though, unless we can find an uncorruptable politician but where would we get one of those? :)

psychobrew

Everybody lives in poverty in communist countries, so that wouldn't work. The poor in the western world live much better than those in third world countries (which communist nations tend to be).

Everyone would be equal comrade :)

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#24 psychobrew
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[QUOTE="SerbWarrior"]

[QUOTE="psychobrew"][QUOTE="Espada12"]

Communism is the only way. But it literally requires jesus to be the communist leader though, unless we can find an uncorruptable politician but where would we get one of those? :)

Everybody lives in poverty in communist countries, so that wouldn't work. The poor in the western world live much better than those in third world countries (which communist nations tend to be).

Everyone would be equal comrade :)

That's not true -- the leaders would be rich. The majority would be poor. Why not give everybody a change to get rich?
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#25 Espada12
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That's not true -- the leaders would be rich. The majority would be poor. Why not give everybody a change to get rich?psychobrew

Everyone getting a chance to be reach will result in poverty, no one must get a chance to be rich and everyone must be paid the same, obviously those with hazardous or high tier jobs get a little more but not enough to make them *rich* compared to the rest of people.

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#26 psychobrew
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[QUOTE="Espada12"]

[QUOTE="psychobrew"]

That's not true -- the leaders would be rich. The majority would be poor. Why not give everybody a change to get rich?

Everyone getting a chance to be reach will result in poverty, no one must get a chance to be rich and everyone must be paid the same, obviously those with hazardous or high tier jobs get a little more but not enough to make them *rich* compared to the rest of people.

So everyone must live like they are poor? That's hardly fair for the people that are willing to work their butts off to get ahead. Everybody should be given an equal chance, but those that take advantage of it shouldn't be punished because some would rather be lazy and just do enough to survive. In the western world, the poor chose to be poor. In the third world countries, people have forgotten how to live off the land.
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#27 Espada12
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[QUOTE="Espada12"]

[QUOTE="psychobrew"]

That's not true -- the leaders would be rich. The majority would be poor. Why not give everybody a change to get rich?psychobrew

Everyone getting a chance to be reach will result in poverty, no one must get a chance to be rich and everyone must be paid the same, obviously those with hazardous or high tier jobs get a little more but not enough to make them *rich* compared to the rest of people.

So everyone must live like they are poor? That's hardly fair for the people that are willing to work their butts off to get ahead. Everybody should be given an equal chance, but those that take advantage of it shouldn't be punished because some would rather be lazy and just do enough to survive. In the western world, the poor chose to be poor. In the third world countries, people have forgotten how to live off the land.

You won't live like you are poor as everything will have to be priced around the income bracket of the entire country, which is what this thread is about.

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#28 psychobrew
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[QUOTE="psychobrew"][QUOTE="Espada12"]

Everyone getting a chance to be reach will result in poverty, no one must get a chance to be rich and everyone must be paid the same, obviously those with hazardous or high tier jobs get a little more but not enough to make them *rich* compared to the rest of people.

Espada12

So everyone must live like they are poor? That's hardly fair for the people that are willing to work their butts off to get ahead. Everybody should be given an equal chance, but those that take advantage of it shouldn't be punished because some would rather be lazy and just do enough to survive. In the western world, the poor chose to be poor. In the third world countries, people have forgotten how to live off the land.

You won't live like you are poor as everything will have to be priced around the income bracket of the entire country, which is what this thread is about.

And in the nations that have tried that, everybody lives in poverty (except an elite few). Since this thread is about solving poverty, communism wouldn't work.

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#29 Espada12
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[QUOTE="Espada12"]

[QUOTE="psychobrew"] So everyone must live like they are poor? That's hardly fair for the people that are willing to work their butts off to get ahead. Everybody should be given an equal chance, but those that take advantage of it shouldn't be punished because some would rather be lazy and just do enough to survive. In the western world, the poor chose to be poor. In the third world countries, people have forgotten how to live off the land.psychobrew

You won't live like you are poor as everything will have to be priced around the income bracket of the entire country, which is what this thread is about.

And in the nations that have tried that, everybody lives in poverty (except an elite few). Since this thread is about solving poverty, communism wouldn't work.

This is why I mentioned uncorruptable politicians either way I doubt everything was priced around the lowest income bracket so there are going to be poor people.

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#30 MFaraz_Hayat
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Have a tax imposed on rich alone. This revenue generated should be used to employ, educate and help poor.

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#31 jimmyjammer69
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The only way would be to absolutely destroy poverty would be to either somehow destroy all greed or turn property into a literal crime. One person is always going to suffer poverty relative to another even if that means living well above the bread line and leading a life of comfort.