I highly doubt that poverty will ever be eradicated, unless we do something like shoot billionaires into the sun once they reach a billion.
Poverty will never be eradicated, what kind of nonsense is that? The poverty is a feature of capitalism, not a bug.
Right, I’m sure there’s actually plans to eradicate poverty… more likely there’s plans to eradicate the impoverished.
The current system we operate in requires poverty to function. It requires people to be desperate so that they work for the oligarchs and, it requires the absolute destitute to exist to serve as a warning to the masses. If poverty didn’t exist our capitalist world would simply create it.
The Nature of Capitalism
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Here’s the full lecture by Michael Parenti if you’re interested.
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Lol i love the precision of this forecast: 229 and not 230
229 years sounds too optimistic to me. I don’t count on poverty ever being eradicated
Poverty will never be eradicated. At no point in human civilization have we managed to eliminate poverty, and as long as there are rich people needing to extract maximum profits from fellow humans there will always be poor people.
We have far greater productivity than at any other point in human history and we still have tons of poverty, even in places like the EU and US. I believe we have the capability but not the willingness. Who’s to say we’ll ever have the willingness.
229 years from now is gonna be some kind of mad max bullshit.
It only makes sense that we collectively eat the first trillionaire.
Tbh I’d guess that it’s unlikely that we’ll have a trillionaires at all. Hiding wealth will become easier and easier and I don’t think anyone wants that rep in “eat the billionaires” sort of public climate.
Poverty won’t be eradicated ever. Not ever.
I had stuff to say but yeah, all that is said. Agreed.
Can we please at least kill them? The Last Capitalist is a short story by Cixin Liu, and it’s very propaganda-ish, but there’s also a certain truth to the premise.
