Topic: Helping others could help to improve our country's economy (Read 543 times)

The community we left behind without helping the poor will rise up tomorrow to fight our peace in living in it, that's why you see many socioeconomic vises among our youths today because they lack the right nurture and help to living a rightful life, it we fail in our responsibilities to building it up, when it collapses, we are all going down together with it, that's another reason you see the hoodlums in their number today now involved in stealing, kidnapping, fighting, and killing because the society and individuals fail to ensure they provide the adequate life for a living to the poor, then the street pick them up.

Helping someone can help them survive for a while but I don't see on how can this help the country or the whole world? In what means? Maybe that person can turned into a super hero soon? Ah, I know maybe that person can become the next president which can help his country first and then provide some aid to other countries.

Helping them can also help your economy because the demand for the goods still continues despite of the hard ships that some people are experiencing. We only need to make sure that we don't over help someone because they can abuse us and will only rely on it without trying on their own. This is the case that usually happens.

But it comes to the realization, that is absolutely far from reality. In fact, you can't please rich people to help poor people the whole life but rather heard them "get out of my sight". If we wanted to live and survive the economic crisis, we better find a job, and stop relying on help from others for they have also suffered inflation.

It is not us who are capable to uplift the economic status of our country but this must be the responsible of the government to create opportunity.

Yes, it is important not to encourage laziness by giving to persons that are not willing or ready to work. It is also good to help people acquire skills that would make them independent. But sometimes we think that we need to engage in a very big task or activity to help the economy. The truth is that giving a plate of food to a neighbor in need would have a ripple effect on the economy.

One of the key reasons for the high rate of crime in most developing countries is hunger. A man that is hungry can do anything to get food if none is available. Don't also forget that a country that is known for high rate of crime would not attract investors, which really affect the county's economy. That citizen that would have become a kidnapper or armed robber because of hunger would be discouraged to engage in such illegalities if I or you give him little assistance. And a crime-free society is a paradise for both local and international investors.    

Helping others can be equated with caring for each other and helping each other between others or an attitude of working together to lighten the burden of everything. So it is clear that if a country has citizens who care about each other, the gap between the poor and the rich will not widen. because of course rich people will always help with financial assistance and poor people will help with their energy. there will be harmony in a country so that the economy can grow more positively.

One of the most effective ways to really help others and the country, and in a sense, yourself, is to help small businesses. why? Because this layer consists of your friends and neighbors. They are the least protected in difficult economic situations. Why ? Because the state primarily deals with issues of big business. Because a small business usually works with a small margin, and as a rule is absolutely dependent on the buyers of its goods/services.
In total - when a difficult situation in the economy, make a rule, for example, 50% of purchases should be made from small private sellers, or 50% of services - order from the same services. What does it give? This "keeps afloat" small businesses, and this may be 30-50-80% of the population. Their products and services are necessary for you, and if they close, and as a rule they are always next to you, you will not feel comfortable. The growth of unemployment will also reduce your standard of living, tk. either taxes will be higher, or the state will be forced to "turn on the printing press"

I've seen some countries that experience continuous inflation, they can do little by little about economic development for their people to survive inflation in the long run.

The way they do it is by increasing tax rates for companies, because the factors and effects that have the greatest influence on the increase in goods and services, the results of the tax increase can be given to the community to boost them in economic growth.

In my opinion, feeding the people is not a good method to improve the economy, I think giving them financial assistance is one of the best tricks that can be done to restore the economy to the impact of inflation.

Helping is a noble act that will make us happy, when we can give then we share happiness with others and as a form of gratitude, whatever we give will mean something to people who need it more, besides giving will never make us poor.

I'd agree in all of these list except giving them money. Giving them money doesn't really help at all. They're just going to spend it to things they never usually had.
One of the most effective way in helping people who struggle financially, is to enroll them on a short course which they are passionate about so it'll teach them how to earn money. That way, the money you spent to help them will not only feed them temporarily, but will feed them for the rest of their lives.

I have been in the online world, working from home set up for more than a year now, since the pandemic erupted. I'm also also one of the thousands or millions of people around the world who lost their jobs.
One of the best initiative I found with some people who's also passionate about helping other people who lost their job, was offering free seminars and tools regarding online jobs that mostly offered in the internet today.

There were even virtual assistant services related to cryptocurrency.

I also really admire those who want to help each other, especially for those who need help from others. But in this case it is also unethical to blame other people who don't want to help others because maybe those who don't want to help don't have the ability from themselves to help others.

And the positive thing is that people who don't want to help others also don't bother other people with anything so that is also a very good point to look at. Now for economic development I think it still depends on human resources where each individual must have knowledge in making and running a business in his life and the local government must also provide some job opportunities for those who are still unemployed. Because it will directly help rotate the economy of a country.

Caring for others is something that must be maintained. In my opinion, with concern for others, the world will become a peaceful and prosperous place. However, because many people always put themselves first, the attention to those who are below them decreases. As a result, many people suffer because the people above them don't care about them. But there are still people who care about the people below them. I admire those who don't put themselves first, and always care for those in need. But will the economy get better, just because we help those in need. I don't know, but maybe at least help those in need, it's been very good.

Honestly I go with your view. Helping each other is only a noble work and does not help the economy. The only way we can help the economy is to help ourselves either through skill acquisition. Not many people who have large resources/companies today sit down just to be help by others

I'd see this as a noble act but this won't make help the economy to grow.
Helping each other was just temporary, we can't expect someone to feed us and gives us shelter forever, we have to work hard as well so we can provide for our necessities. 

Putting as an example what happens to those who are affected by the war. Some of their people leaving out from that place in order to find peace and a better life because nothing really happens on us if we are still dependent on help from others.

I feel like this topic is partly related to Ukrainian refugees. I see a lot of countries are helping them, a lot of refugees are trying find work or already working, but some part of them can not work or dont want or plan to. Some of them just wait abroad until war ends and plan to return home. How can they improve economy of my country? Ok, I accept that this might be a bad example, but what about refugees that face language barrier at work? They will to work, but they are not accepted. Or accepted, but company spend time and money on teaching them. How can this help to improve economy? Even in my life, every time I try to help someone, it ends with him sitting on my neck or expecting me to work or do extra, so that I have time and funds for him.

I am doing my part on this one, some of my relatives, I'm not giving them food but I'm giving them advises on which career path that they should go.

Those that are into technology, they can adapt things that are currently the trend at the moment. And those that are still young, I'm telling them that they should learn to think outside box and not just all about school because after they study, they need to work or make their own business if they can have.

I have no problem on giving people something to eat but it will be based on the situation that they are at. If they have the capacity to work, they just need a helping hand at the moment but we won't be feeding them forever. That's why there's the quote about teaching them how to fish and not giving them the fish.

Could someone like Elon make a difference in the life of many people if he decided to do it? Of course, but not even a person like him can help everyone since even if his resources are many times greater than what we have they are still not infinite and the problem of poverty is simply too big to fix, now an attempt must always be done to try to reduce the number of people living in poverty as much as possible, but since this is a problem that has existed probably since the beginning of civilization itself it is difficult to see how it is ever going to be fixed.

Easier said than done when comes to teach someone how to be more self-sufficient. Some do not even want to.
It can be more useful but it requires more time and energy in order to reach objectives, when comes to charity for example one could consider it as a "relief" to problems a person could be going through, which is better than nothing, isnt it?

It is when a person in need knocks on the door asking for food, how would I teach them how to work for their food?. A perfect stranger I have never seen before.
So even though I understand that teaching people rather than giving away resources is important but it is something that needs organization and even infrastructure, as far as I am concerned.

correctly. the slightest help will be very valuable if it is received by people who really need help. and when the crisis hit the whole world, it was people from the lower middle economy who became the real victims. especially those who really have the lowest economic level. many of them even find it difficult to just eat. more of those who always hold Hungry. they really need a helping hand. somehow help from the government can't seem to reach them. so we can't rely too much on the government. because the government cannot touch all corners of society. because the government also has limitations. so it is we who are closest who must work hand in hand, help each other to relieve the suffering of the people who are under us in terms of economy. so that there is cooperation between the government and the people. and it can have an indirect impact on the economic recovery of a country.

Doesn't investing in innovation and technology create more jobs?  Between the options given by OP, creating jobs is the one for the long term.  It is a given that the government must educate the next generation. But without the availability of jobs where these young minds have to get their initial financial support to move on to the next stage where they can showcase their talent and learnings, all this knowledge will likely go to waste.  Job is there to establish a financial foundation for whatever a person needs to do next.

A single richest person e.g. Elon Musk might able to help every poor people in this world, but the question is, he want or not? look at the current situation, he's not helping the whole poor people with his money, of course it's his right and he doesn't have any obligation for doing this. But I think it's not good to give them fish everyday, it's better to teach them how to fishing yourself, so he can get fish without someone giving it. The main problem of poor people is they're not force themselves to become better and start doing anything to earn money.

In this case the focus is to ease because when we can't provide something more like capital and opportunities to work, then at least help reduce the burden of their lives this is a pretty good thing.
Indeed, in this case what you say is true but on the other hand we are also in trouble what we can do with it.
At least giving help only once is better than waiting for us to be able to provide help in other forms.

On the other hand this will also be like a double-edged sword, giving help to those in need is indeed good enough to do but on the other hand when this becomes a habit it makes the person we help become like comfort and continues to do what he was doing and never changes because indeed they knew that more and more help would come their way.
I think giving necessary assistance is a good thing but compared to material assistance I prefer to give some needy people in my area the opportunity to start something that makes them grow in the hope that they will be able to do business or do work that can support their lives .

The problem is too big to be solved by a single person, and not only that people can see that whatever it's coming next for the economy is not going to be good, this means that even if they want to help many people are going to get worried about their own well-being and this means they will be less willing to share whatever they could offer because they do not know if in just a few months or years they are going to need that money, so definitely the circumstances we are going through are making the problem of poverty even worse for everyone.

Actually, this is why we have governments and this is why we have leaders in every country. We have them from the Presidency to the least in power but you know, in failed countries of developing and underdevelop, these hardly work but developed countries do try their best in handling those above problems, it not necessary that the middle and rich folks have to try to do that, there is money set aside during yearly budget padding to tackle these during emergencies.

Where the rich people who have good hearts come from are always the Non-government organizations(NGOs) but they are very limited with resources because the amount they do have to help is not always enough to go around, they can only do the one they can to help others

Helping others may not improve the whole entire country's economy as you said but will till have some great impart on the country. A simple job created may help to solve unemployment issue of some people, enabling them to feed themselves and their family. In some countries, people are dying due to lack of food. Helping such people may help to reduce morality in the country and such people may later be of advantage to the country. Either directly or indirectly, this still have effect on the country's economy.

That's why I'm one of those people who don't agree with the government's policy of printing a lot of fiat to give to the poor. This will not improve
the economy, but will create new problems in the future with a much higher rate of rising inflation. We should also if we want to help the poor around us,
don't focus too much on providing free food and money. But it's best to educate them on how to make money, such as teaching them how to promote
goods for them to sell. Therefore, I prefer if the government provides free training to develop skills for the poor rather than providing financial assistance.
So we can also help the government help the poor, by at least helping our friends and family who do not have an income by teaching them how the skills
we have. So that they can make money and not beg for food or money.

Job creation can grow the economy of a nation but to what extent can it sustain the economic growth of that country. Jobs are short term solution to a long term problem.  To sustain an economy then embracing innovations by investing in young minds on trending technologies and new approach to economic challenges can serve down to many generations. I see job creation as a means to satisfying the immediate need of a country and not a long term solution

This is more reliable on how to help the economic growth on their country since by helping other to have a job is really sustainable for long term since they could provide something useful like products or certain goods that can help the government to gain taxes. I really don't agree about giving free food and money because this is not the best solution you can give to a person since this cannot create any productive life to them.

Sharing is caring, for whoever, for our families, relations, and also other people. Caring and sharing will really help other people to have better conditions at that time.
However, should we help them fully moreover by feeding them fully and also helping them with all things?
I am not sure that the term caring is full to help them. This will also depend on who the person or people that we help.
If we consider that they deserve it because they really cannot work a job because of the elderly, the sick, the disabled, we may be suitable to help them continuously.
But, if we consider that they are still able to work, it is better to know to what limit we can help. We don't only help by feeding them or giving them only to life, but we can support them to be able to work, asking them to work in certain things, work in your business, work in some vocation, and others. But you must also tell them about professionalism if they are working with you. This does not mean that we do not care about them, but rather to help them so that they are not dependent on other people's gifts, while they are really still able to work, so don't make them lazy to work. One way is to encourage them to want to work, perhaps by providing jobs or helping them find work.

Creating jobs will be the best solution to this problem.  This way people will have a continuous source of income thus saving other people from spending extra just to help others in need.  Giving food is just a temporary band-aid for the problem while teaching them what to do to earn money can't do anything if the jobs aren't available. Establishing a business still needs money for start-up so the advice of having a business when a person is struggling with finances won't do anything.

Helping with funds is very important but its most beneficial to those with a rich mindset. Poverty is the state of the mind. A society where money is constantly shared hardly grows with exception to the class of senior citizens.  Creating jobs too slow down economic growth. The best option is to help expose people to new technologies and trending opportunities both on the cloud and on physical space. The era of creating menial jobs is gradually fading off because Ai is gradually replacing human efforts

Sometimes, it's easier to just give them free food and money because we tend to think that its currently what they mostly need that time. When in fact, we are tolerating some of those lazy people not to work knowing we can help them anytime. If only the government are able to provide more jobs and investment opportunities to these poor people, then we can't no longer see people living in the streets and asking for food or money. However, if we have also the means to give, then for sure it will be a great help for them too.

Not to be pessimistic, but these factors wouldn't improve an entire country's economy unless you're talking about a massive overhaul of governmental systems. Inflation can impact someone with low financial literacy the same way as someone with higher financial literacy. Demanding answers from your government as to why inflation is occurring in the first place seems like the prudent solution. Teaching financial literacy to someone that has to pay 10% more for goods than the previous year doesn't actually tackle the core issue. You couldn't create jobs out of thin air either.

Helping might be too easy to say, but in reality its so hard to do especially for people who can no longer benefit from helping the poor individuals. Yes, if only it runs in our genes, helping through feeding those empty stomachs and giving shelter to those who are homeless, then the world will definitely be seen continue to progress. And the sad reality is that, most of the rich people who are more capable to help are no longer thinking of it as they are more focused on how to increase their own wealth.

There’s a lot of racial discrimination happening until now and many people forget how go be people by giving respect to everybody no matter what their race and their color. There’s a lot of countries that needs a serious help, but it looks like they suffer more because of their own corrupt government, we can’t just help them with that problem. Yes, we can give food, shelter and their basic necessities but without the help of their own government by creating job for them, they will just ended up the same thing.

So from here there are other conclusions drawn.
Helping others in lightening the burden is indeed very good but on the other hand we also have to be able to see further whether that person really deserves to be helped or not because in fact there are still many people who sometimes make lack (in this case poverty) their opportunity to be given mercy. I'm sorry, although not all of them are like that, but things like this are commonplace and often happen, especially in my country.

Realistically it is the very richest of any country who could do the most to help their people, and it should be the governments job to make sure it happens. Sadly there are many billionaires out there and they sit on these vast piles of money, which grows bigger through the shares of the companies they own, every single day yet in reality it could be much more useful if distributed among many people. I reality a billionaire could easily live on a million a year if they restrained their spending, leaving billions which could be funding school meals, paying for medicines for the poorest, giving education to the younger generations and all sorts of noble deeds - but they simply compete to stack their money ever higher until they die.

I am very supportive of creating jobs that are useful to the community and society, but I also witness some famous organizations or individuals also abusing it to make money off of the poor themselves. Social problems are really too complicated. The help from individuals and organizations is never enough to bring about a world without balance. I used to think about what I could do in the future, when only 20 years old, he will become a really rich person to share with the poor around him. But the more I learned, the more I realized that giving food money only gives them a temporary peace of mind. Teach them to create it for themselves and let them see for themselves the process that really changes their lives. themselves. But also agree that everyone can build a world that loves to help each other and is willing to share everything they have with those who are weaker, because in certain parts of the world, there are still many places where there is no such thing. No electricity, no internet, not enough food, lack of a place to live, etc. We are all human. Let's love and be equal to our fellow human beings, as well as all other species.

They say charity begins at your home first! It’s better to create strong financial situation for our houses first and then go for the outer world. I am not saying this out of some negative point of view but it’s always best to create strong roots of oneself so that if there comes the extra burden on our shoulders then we can save them too. As you stated this is the world sinking in inflation so over the period of time this will affect us too and for this very reason it’s always best to keep control of our assets and then march towards helping others. This is entirely related with current situation of inflation.

There's a popular statement in my locale, I quote-''Don't give them fish, show them how to fish''.  It is to say that If you really want to help someone you know asides the little assistance you can provide in form of cash, food, clothes etc. to strangers who are really in need of it, rather than always wanting them to come to you for help which will become exhausting to you, show them a means for them to be able to assist themselves. If we all result to helping each other, the world will be a better place.

Africans have the word for it "UBUNTU". Its what we need.

But our IDENTITY prevents helping each other that instead of providing assistance we sanction each other. Or if help comes, they also ask something bigger in return. Just look at Asian hate crime rate today. When identity affects how we treat each other, it may really create trouble instead. 

Too utopian a topic. It is relevant, not only in our time. Kind hearts always help, and assistance to the lower strata of the population should be at the level of the government. But what do we see in reality? During a crisis, there are always those who get richer; these are, of course, rich people, and the poor get poorer. 
Watching the news, I do not see any attempts to help people who are in need; today, the world has become very evil. Of course, helping one person can make him happier, but today poverty is a global problem. And talking about small steps to help in this forum won't really change anything.

I think the different humanitarian foundations, the NGO'S really need to take this up as a big challenge to try and help the needy on their environment. Wars also have not helped matter because displaced people have much need for help. The war in Ukraine is a wake up call for EU countries to do more in accomodating the displaced. Poverty is on the increase and the low class are affected .

You cannot help them for just simply giving money or basic things they need, you are introducing them to became lazy and just depends from free goods that they can receive from other people.



Ideal thing to do because for this they can learn how to fish on their own to feed their family so if you know something beneficial which can help other people go with it and for sure it can help a lot to them.


Not everyone is open for other people, scan those people who truly work hard for betterment of their family since for sure they are the one who will listen from anything which possibly give them benefits.

Whenever there is a topic about this case and people are discussing how to help other people they start talking about how to give free food, clothes, or money to their people when the topic is brought up. In my opinion, this is not a good thing to do because even if you gave them free food and clothes for years, they would still need these things afterward, I would prefer to assist other people living in my country by teaching them about the economy and how to invest and a new technology that can be used to earn money. As a result, they will not need my help anymore in the future and will be able to meet all their needs independently.

Kindness to all is always appreciated. A problem I used to recognize in society when things became more and more morally degenerate, leading to everyone suffering in this life. Sometimes it's not their fault and it's still shared. I understand the problem of karma, but maybe changing things for the better at this time will be very difficult. Raising awareness for all is like having everyone work together towards the same thing, but if it's not appealing enough to all, it's unlikely to happen. As I know, so far, the period of human development has always been clearly divided, but today's stronger connection, the spread of the message, is a new problem. We all unite and love each other more. Not only between humans and humans, but all species need harmony. I know of a friend who left his homeland with a happy life to come to provide support and economic development for some poor indigenous areas of Africa. So I think let's love each other and be willing to help and share with all. Equality and not losing against each other will take us through all difficulties.

It's quite true. Some people tend to appreciate when you teach them to fish rather than giving them the fish because in that way you have helped solve a problem of dependency and poverty.
 
 It's like a case of the talents in biblical times. One who was given 5 talents, let me use trade instead to help push my point home, went ahead to grow it, and surely, when you grow a business, you employ labour, ( which would be majorly the poor masses), it would solve a big problem.

It is clear that rich people, who have high incomes and investments, are better off in times of inflation and crisis than poor people, who tend to depend on a single, low income.


On this I agree with you. And I would go further. Rather than giving them food, the ideal would be to teach them to be able to obtain a higher income or additional sources of income. It's the classic: 'don't give them a fish, teach them to fish'.

My only problem about trying to help people through direct money donation is the fact money can be easily mishandled.
It has happened to me before when I was in collegue, I had a companion who was going through a very hard time, I naturally helped him out by sharing my meals with him and giving him some money but in the end I realized he was bad at managing it and wasted most of it.
That experience I had made me to prefer to donate food to the people in need instead of money, if it is cooked food even better.

You should take a look at the so called "beggars Mafia" from India, quite a good example of how money is mishandled while one believes one is helping.
Not sure of accurate the allegations are, though.

If only this kind of attitude runs in our DNA, there'd be much less poverty and probably no person would die out of hunger or thirst or lack of shelter. Unfortunately, this isn't the case. Yes, people help each other to a certain extent, but only when it's convenient to help.

It may not really improve the economy, but it somehow eases the burden of the country.

Near my place is a government agency which provides small assistance to the poor who are unable to pay for their hospital bills, burial fees, medicine, and so on. They will only receive a few tens of dollars after complying various requirements and falling in line for hours. Some have even travelled from afar only for this. And sometimes their requests even end up rejected. I guess the queue would be significantly shortened if sharing is something innate in us.

Caring for others is a noble act. sharing and helping each other can create harmonization in building good cooperation in the future. make everyone work hand in hand to support each other in improving the quality of life of each individual. because actually everyone will need each other. Rich people need the services of workers from people who need jobs. and the poor need a helping hand from the rich as in the form of job vacancies. and mutual help is needed so that there is no conflict between them.

if rich people don't care about people who are in need and need help then there will not be a good relationship in it and this is the reason and trigger for the increasing rate of crimes such as theft and robbery. because this is the impact of the lack of good relations between the rich and the poor. if the crime rate in an area increases. then it will affect the economic sector there. such as property prices will decline. because a good and healthy and harmonious environment also has an effect on increasing the selling value of a property such as housing and the like.

As the whole world is facing a serious economic difficulties. There is surging inflation in almost all part of the world.
Unemployment rate keep increasing in some part of the world as businesses are collapsing. This tend to increase the level of poverty around the world. During this period, for middle and upper classes, commodity price increases might sting a little. But this seriously affect the poor as they struggle between

👉👉feeding their families and medicines.
👉👉having a roof over their heads or food in their bellies.
👉👉Paying school fee or learning a handwork.

During rising inflation, more poor will be pushed into more worse situations. Although everyone is being affected by inflation but some are more affected. Helping the most affected ones (the poor) can help to save their life, our country and the whole world.

Conclusion
Let's all try our best to help someone during this rising inflation. Bringing someone out of poverty may serve the chance of him/her helping another thousands of people. This can thereby help indirectly to eradicate poverty to certain level within the society. Helping someone may come in the following ways:

👉👉By giving money, foods, clothes etc.
👉👉Teaching them what to do to earn little more money.
👉👉By giving reasonable advice.
👉👉By creating more jobs....and many more.

Let's all join hand together for the growth of our country and for the betterment of the world.