| </span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by
I am completely against state charity. If ONE person, living in poor conditions, can pull themselves out of the gutter, than ANYONE can do it. It is simply about willpower.<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>
Not true. If everyone in the world was not in poverty then all the rich people would have to be a hell of a lot less rich.
There is a total sum value to everything in the world, and that does not change (while we still use a monetary system to represent goods that is). So if one person gets rich, or just beyond an equal measure of wealth, everyone else is losing out. So while there is a rich, and a wealthy middle class, then there WILL be a poor. This is inherent to capitalism.
Not only this, but the rich in capitalism need there to be a large, poverty stricken class. If there wasn't, they would have to increase the wages they offer to appeal to people. But while there are so many poor people, they can charge absolute minimum, because if someone dies of malnutrition because they cannot afford good food, the employer just gets another poverty stricken worker to replace them.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston Churchill |