The way to end world hunger.

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HappySqurriel said:

numonex said:
Extreme gap between rich and poor continues to widen all the time. Be grateful that you were lucky to have been born in a prosperous country. Anyway to the insensitive morons who suggested killing the poor people off- STFU you are racists. Hitler and Stalin and other evil dictators carried out barbaric measures of genocide.

A lot of measures need to be taken to fully eradicate worldwide poverty. Theoretically it could be done through redistribution of wealth but the political leaders and religious leaders being so corrupt would never let it happen. Donations to charities only a small amount of money ends up going to help the poor people in need.

Redistribution of wealth worked so well in Zimbabwe; after all, taking the farms away from the wealthy land-owners who knew how to produce food efficiently and giving it to uneducated and inexperienced individuals lead to a green-explosion of food production.

 

Wealth is a by-product of efficiency, and people who build wealth have demonstrated the reason why they’re the individual who is best suited to manage and control economic resources; certainly, there are individuals who inherit wealth but if that wealth is no managed well it tends to be lost rather quickly (where it can then be managed very efficiently by another individual).

Extreme poverty (the kind of poverty requiring foreign aid to prevent starvation) tends to be the result of heavy government control, mismanagement of the economy, lack of economic freedoms, and lack of adequate credit for individuals to produce wealth. If you take a country like Zimbabwe, institute a legal system based on British Common Law, and convert foreign aid to micro-loans to build an economy starvation would become a distant memory.

Yes, this is point that I would second. In a case like Zimbabwe it is very easy to see why the people are starving and why the economy is none existent. It is caused by Mugabe's complete mismanagement of the country. Giving the farmland to soldiers was a very bad move. They were innexperienced, it meant that Zimbabwe was no longer the bread basket of Africa. Removing someone like Mugabe and replacing him with a competent leader, with a government that is low in corruption and high in efficiency is a good move. But that is easier said than done.

The thing about Zimbabwe is that it is a country that could potentially thrive and become prosperous, what is holding it back is an extremely bad government.