The world will have its first trillionaire within a decade, but poverty won't be eradicated for another 229 years, report finds

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The world will have its first trillionaire within a decade, but poverty won't be eradicated for another 229 years, report finds
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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

https://youtu.be/WseyrYuD8ao

The means to solve it almost overnight are there. Homelessness and such are political choices more than anything.