This whole discussion is f*ing stupid. I think what is being missed on this whole conversation is that NONE OF US IS IN THE 85 AND NONE OF US ARE IN THE 3.5 BILLION.
Why did Oxfam do this study? To highlight the unfair distribution of wealth on this planet. And hopefully people will do something to make life more fair. Like help out Oxfam.
Oxfam isn't about giving people food and then running away. And the people they are helping are working one HELL of a lot harder than those 85 richest people. Those 85 people I can assure you are NOT sweating 16 hour days to put food on the table for their kids.
Oxfam success stories:
http://www.oxfam.ca/our-work/success-stories
- Built a bulla (native food crop) processing centre in Ethiopia allowing the people there to feed themselves
- Literacy training and ensuring that children who otherwise wouldn't be going to school get an education
- In Sri Lanka, they are helping entrepreneurs start their own businesses by providing loans
It is not that the most impoverished people in the world are not working hard enough!!! It is that there is no way out of their poverty without help.
They can stand on their own so long as someone gives them a hand up.
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I FIRMLY believe that socialism, like we see in Sweden or Finland, provides a better quality of life for everyone. And I think we can have that debate. But this is about kids living in garbage dumps. I don't think there is any debate that that is just WRONG.
