Richest 62 people as wealthy as half of world's population - page 3.

saddampbuh

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Quote from: mOgliE on January 19, 2016, 09:55:09 AM

How narrow minded and false your commentary is Roll Eyes

Here is a small link to understand how wrong you are: http://persquaremile.com/2012/08/08/if-the-worlds-population-lived-like/

Problem is just the way of life, not the number of humans. The "low IQs people" as you say, are the only one correctly managing Earth resources, while your incredibly intelligent Americans are consuming 4 times the resources the Earth can provide.

Stop blaming the others for your own incapacity to live in a sustainable way buddy. Assume the fact that you're killing the world in which your children will have to live, you'll be responsible for it, not the Africans.

doubling your population every couple of generations is not sustainable.

you can call it 4 planets worth or you can say there are 4 times too many people on the 1 planet we have. better a couple of billion people having cars, protein rich diets and only having to work 40 hours a week than 9 billion people all living like indian slum dwellers.

mOgliE

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Quote from: saddampbuh on January 19, 2016, 09:47:29 AM

Quote from: mOgliE on January 19, 2016, 09:02:35 AM

I'd just like to ask a question:

What would happen if there was like 1000 people in a room, 1 of them has a tremendous amount of food, 10 of them have enough food to it as they wish and the rest of them are starving?

Well the rest of the people would kill the one with so much food and eat as much as they want.

Why aren't we doing it in our word? The difference between what I said and our world is that it's like a huge room with 7 billions people from which 1 billion has just enough to eat to live correctly and 6 billions have nothing they can rely to. While a few hundreds people have so much we can't even see them belong what they possess.

It would be time to remind them that they "possess" nothing. Not if the rest of the world wants or need it.

because for everyone to "live correctly" according to our standards we would need between 3 and 5 planet earths to sustain them all at that level with all the extra fuel usage and food production that would entail. 7 (soon to be 9) billion people are never going to have a western standard of living and its time everyone accepted that and looked at ways of reducing the population sizes of poor countries.

your 1000 people in a room scenario possibly works if we're just looking at civilised countries but it doesn't work if most of those people are africans and aboriginal central americans with low iqs who keep having more kids than they can support with no idea how to manage their resources in a sustainable way

How narrow minded and false your commentary is Roll Eyes

Here is a small link to understand how wrong you are: http://persquaremile.com/2012/08/08/if-the-worlds-population-lived-like/

Problem is just the way of life, not the number of humans. The "low IQs people" as you say, are the only one correctly managing Earth resources, while your incredibly intelligent Americans are consuming 4 times the resources the Earth can provide.

Stop blaming the others for your own incapacity to live in a sustainable way buddy. Assume the fact that you're killing the world in which your children will have to live, you'll be responsible for it, not the Africans.

mOgliE

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Quote from: Francis Freeman on January 19, 2016, 09:37:14 AM

This is because only few people are able to make money.
If you see the list of the most wealthy people you could easily notice the most of them started from the bottom: Larry Ellison, Carlos Slim, Amancio Ortega and so on... they weren't born "rich", they became rich with their abilites.

Wrooooooooooooooooooooooooooong!!!

That's just the shit that the "American dream" wants you to believe.

Go to Forbes list of 500 richest people and look a bit. Yes there is bill gates. He's the first one. Great. Ellison and Slim too ok.
Now look at the others: most of them are from a rather rich family. That doesn't mean they did nothing, that just means that the richest families continue to become richer and richer.

saddampbuh

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Quote from: mOgliE on January 19, 2016, 09:02:35 AM

I'd just like to ask a question:

What would happen if there was like 1000 people in a room, 1 of them has a tremendous amount of food, 10 of them have enough food to it as they wish and the rest of them are starving?

Well the rest of the people would kill the one with so much food and eat as much as they want.

Why aren't we doing it in our word? The difference between what I said and our world is that it's like a huge room with 7 billions people from which 1 billion has just enough to eat to live correctly and 6 billions have nothing they can rely to. While a few hundreds people have so much we can't even see them belong what they possess.

It would be time to remind them that they "possess" nothing. Not if the rest of the world wants or need it.

because for everyone to "live correctly" according to our standards we would need between 3 and 5 planet earths to sustain them all at that level with all the extra fuel usage and food production that would entail. 7 (soon to be 9) billion people are never going to have a western standard of living and its time everyone accepted that and looked at ways of reducing the population sizes of poor countries.

your 1000 people in a room scenario possibly works if we're just looking at civilised countries but it doesn't work if most of those people are africans and aboriginal central americans with low iqs who keep having more kids than they can support with no idea how to manage their resources in a sustainable way

Francis Freeman

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This is because only few people are able to make money.
If you see the list of the most wealthy people you could easily notice the most of them started from the bottom: Larry Ellison, Carlos Slim, Amancio Ortega and so on... they weren't born "rich", they became rich with their abilites.

mOgliE

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I'd just like to ask a question:

What would happen if there was like 1000 people in a room, 1 of them has a tremendous amount of food, 10 of them have enough food to it as they wish and the rest of them are starving?

Well the rest of the people would kill the one with so much food and eat as much as they want.

Why aren't we doing it in our word? The difference between what I said and our world is that it's like a huge room with 7 billions people from which 1 billion has just enough to eat to live correctly and 6 billions have nothing they can rely to. While a few hundreds people have so much we can't even see them belong what they possess.

It would be time to remind them that they "possess" nothing. Not if the rest of the world wants or need it.

iCeSaiah

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I think this billionaires are really donating through charity. The problem why we really cant see they are helping is because some of there donations doesnt really go to intended beneficiaries.

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So much for trickle down: only bold reforms will tackle inequality

Even the IMF recognises the vicious circle in which inequality breeds instability, which causes recession and spending cuts that make inequality worse

http://www.theguardian.com/business/economics-blog/2015/jun/21/so-much-for-trickle-down-bold-reforms-are-required-to-tackle-inequality

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The vast and growing gap between rich and poor has been laid bare in a new Oxfam report showing that the 62 richest billionaires own as much wealth as the poorer half of the world’s population.

Timed to coincide with this week’s gathering of many of the super-rich at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, the report calls for urgent action to deal with a trend showing that 1% of people own more wealth than the other 99% combined.

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jan/18/richest-62-billionaires-wealthy-half-world-population-combined

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