• Skeezix@lemmy.world
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    56 minutes ago

    I agree with the first part, but for the 2nd part i think wealth relies on scarcity to be wealth.

  • Majorllama@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    There are ~700 million people living in poverty according to Google.

    The total combined wealth of the top 1% is ~43 trillion according to Google.

    That comes out to ~61k per person.

    So while that would be life changing money for a lot of people it certainly wouldn’t magically fix everyone’s situation.

    As for the food but we have produced more than we needed globally for awhile now. It’s really more of an issue of logistics. The places where food is the biggest issue tend to be fairly remote meaning that even with money there isn’t always an easy way to get food/water consistently out to them. It’s often better to set up those remote communities with local water and farming/hunting if possible.

  • Cris@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    I like the sentiment here, but I think this one has much weaker messaging compared to the other posts.

    It feels like the take away is “capitalism bad” which might be an understandable sentiment, but it’s feels more like a platitude and vent of frustration than anything else. The other posts felt direct and I think challenge folks to really think about what’s wrong around them, and what specific actions they they could be taking about it, and I don’t really get that feeling from this one

    But if you made this, I think the choice of type and colors are excellent!

  • Sabre363@sh.itjust.works
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    3 hours ago

    But, we can’t get rid of poverty, then everyone will have the same opportunities and money wont mean anything except as a meager exchange for goods and services . . .

    . . . oh wait, that makes sense

  • Cris@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Would it be possible to get a sidebar entry for the comm describing what kinds of things are appropriate here specifically? I have an idea or two on things that could be worth posting, but I’m not sure if they’re quite the type of post you’re looking for