Why are people poor?
Gee, that’s like something I never thought of, coz the system was busy teaching me the ‘causes’, ‘effects’ and ‘solutions’ to/of poverty. Even the debates of solving this ‘problem’…which still haven’t been resolved. No, not poverty…the debates!! Knowledge creates too many solutions….and we keep waiting for someone to think of a ‘better’ paradigm…thus we take no action! You know knowledge is more existent than action! It should be the other way round., we need more action in the world., what are you gonna do with so much ‘knowledge’? I don’t know…maybe create systems of power? Like Marx said (and ya, many religions say too- and everybody does) its the attachment to material possessions that creates disparity, people are not poor since some possess material and some do not- people ARE poor since the system and those who possess don’t allow (and has/have never) those who do not possess to possess. It can be good. Coz the people are less hit by economic crisis (read: the crisis of the ‘rich;…the crisis of ‘money’- or the lack of it!!). These are unaffected by the stock market, the FDI and the policies of the government! It’s paradoxical- because its good, yet it is bad (good and bad is about ‘to whom’). Its good if you think possession is bad and its bad if you believe that the world should materially prosper. Obviously the system (since it’s of the rich) does not allow the poor to prosper. Just like patriarchy fears control by women…coz the dominant ideology knows that the alternative group is more powerful, but they believe they are smarter since they can create an apparatus of illusion.
Gee, that’s like something I never thought of, coz the system was busy teaching me the ‘causes’, ‘effects’ and ‘solutions’ to/of poverty. Even the debates of solving this ‘problem’…which still haven’t been resolved. No, not poverty…the debates!! Knowledge creates too many solutions….and we keep waiting for someone to think of a ‘better’ paradigm…thus we take no action! You know knowledge is more existent than action! It should be the other way round., we need more action in the world., what are you gonna do with so much ‘knowledge’? I don’t know…maybe create systems of power? Like Marx said (and ya, many religions say too- and everybody does) its the attachment to material possessions that creates disparity, people are not poor since some possess material and some do not- people ARE poor since the system and those who possess don’t allow (and has/have never) those who do not possess to possess. It can be good. Coz the people are less hit by economic crisis (read: the crisis of the ‘rich;…the crisis of ‘money’- or the lack of it!!). These are unaffected by the stock market, the FDI and the policies of the government! It’s paradoxical- because its good, yet it is bad (good and bad is about ‘to whom’). Its good if you think possession is bad and its bad if you believe that the world should materially prosper. Obviously the system (since it’s of the rich) does not allow the poor to prosper. Just like patriarchy fears control by women…coz the dominant ideology knows that the alternative group is more powerful, but they believe they are smarter since they can create an apparatus of illusion.
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