The question isn't what causes poverty. Poverty is and always has been the base state of nature and humanity.
The question is what enables cooperation at such a scale that something as insane, endlessly complex, and inexplicably productive as human society can exist?
Proveta is not and has not been the base state of nature and humanity
There is nothing natural about the government limiting our access to natural resources.
Poverty is a lack of access to resources.
Can you name one animal that isn't human and experiences poverty?
You can't because it's not natural, because poverty can not exist without government to enforce it.
Exactly. Poverty’s the default; prosperity’s the anomaly. The real flex is figuring out what aligns enough incentives to lift billions out of that base state…and spoiler: it’s not more fiat…
Tradeoffs between metcalfes law and Dunbars number
Define poverty.
For the sake of simplicity , the comparison is probably best defined by the amount of energy we can access and direct.
Poverty is the lack of access to resources.
Answer: money. I listen to Bitcoin Audible I know all the answers.
What is your basis for saying that poverty is part of human nature? That we come with nothing?
Well, I guess go get naked in the woods and try to survive alone and tell me if you feel poor or not. 😆
People living traditional indigenous lifestyles (not including extremely cold environments) work 500 hours a year on average.
And have no concept of poverty. Everyone gets fed, everyone had a house, everyone has access to medicine etc.
Meanwhile westerners are working 2500 hours a year and struggling to afford food and rent.
Yeah them damn savages got no idea what they're missing out on, all that free time for art and rituals and having sex all the time.
We are so privileged to be overworked and struggling.
That is the question everyone should keep in the back of their heads: How did poverty suddenly start to decline, long before socialism and other pretend-altruistic philosophies could ruin people's minds? My preliminary answer is the absence of absolute power and competition between small and culturally similar jurisdictions in central and western Europe in the early modern period and into the Industrial Revolution. Collectivism has been on the rise ever since the latter half of the 19th century and even though it has severely hampered human progress, wherever there was but a sliver of market-oriented economic action, people have been able to thrive in a way collectivist regimes only manage to facilitate for small, distinct groups by violently expropiating individuals not part of those same groups.
The man himself might not be what he's cracked up to be but his motto is timeless:
¡Viva la libertad, carajo!
Poverty only increased duriy the industrial revolution.
Poverty was created to force the commoners to move to urban areas to work on factories.
It was practically non existent before the industrial revolution.
Giving me money specifically.
as far as i can tell, the cause of poverty is not having enough money.
Answer:
“The question is not what causes poverty. Nothing causes poverty. Poverty is the default state. The real question is what causes prosperity? And the answer to that is: freedom, incentives, and the institutions that allow people to create wealth”
-Thomas Sowell
Poverty is not the natural state of nature that is retarded.
Name one fucking animal on earth that's not human and struggles to pay rent or buy food?
Poverty is totally unnatural, humans are the only animal that experience poverty.
If one monkey hoards the bananas and tries to push the other monkeys into poverty they kill him.
That is nature.
Poverty can not exist without government to enforce it.
Otherwise we'd just feed ourselves and build our own homes instead of paying rent.
Without government poverty can't exist.
You need police and boarders to enforce poverty.
Otherwise people just leave and go somewhere else.
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The answer, according to Thomas Sowell, is something like human's taking action.
His books basically address this question again and again.
If we all had to go back to the limits of Dunbars number we might be better off because incentives wouldn’t be perverse anymore.
The welfare state is the degradation of society.
Force starving people to learn how to produce food and/or value to society and more people would do it.
eh, we certainly wouldn't *all* be better off because the first consequence would likely be the deaths of like 90% of the human population 😅
Hard to even calculate how much couldn't exist or be sustained if we had to collapse all the way back to Dunbar's number as far as societal scaling.
eh, we certainly wouldn't *all* be better off because the first consequence would likely be the deaths of like 90% of the human population 😅
Hard to even calculate how much couldn't exist or be sustained if we had to collapse all the way back to Dunbar's number as far as societal scaling.
eh, we certainly wouldn't *all* be better off because the first consequence would likely be the deaths of like 90% of the human population 😅
Hard to even calculate how much couldn't exist or be sustained if we had to collapse all the way back to Dunbar's number as far as societal scaling.
The “one second after” effect.
A rabbit hole genre of post-apocalyptic fiction was my life a few years back.
I think less than 90% would die off, but the effects are not knowable.
We would be stronger if the result was tribal and local, for generations ahead. Hard times would create strong men.
Decide what poverty is first.
Having food, shelter, clothes and steady income. I was told I was poor. Because I lived in an area classified by peers and teachers as 'poor'. Unfortunately even I believed it too.
Lucky for me I loved reading. The same with internet today - its like standing in a library so full of books.
So, lessons to self -
Never allow others to define you.
Be proud of my heritage - doesn't mean I'm better or worse
Breakdown the fences I built in my mind.
There are some that thrive in community
There are some that like being alone
And yet each and every human being on this planet will contribute positive and or negative energy to everything they connect with.
