To eradicate "extreme poverty" you just have to define "extreme poverty" by whatever metric is going down to nothing, even if it's not truly measuring "extreme poverty" because perception is everything. Follow the HumanProgress / @johanknorberg method and everything looks Pinker.
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I wonder what he thinks of Nelson's tire necklaces. You know, sticking a tire slicked with oil over a white person and lighting it on fire.
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His dead grandfather's ex-wife said something that can be interpreted to be endorsing a cruel mode of murdering people. Get over it already. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necklacing
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Nelson was an anti-white terrorist, and he and his billion-plus tiresome coethnics will soon understand what Kipling's "Awakened Saxon" was all about.
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Cute. "Anti White" really, the man who preached forgiveness after Apartheid
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Research shows that eradicating poverty benefits everyone, esp. the RICH. Also benefits economy & environment; as well as health, education, innovation, science, the arts, culture, etc. We have the resources. We just need the will. And sadly, greed & corruption stand in the way.
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And hatred of the poor, even from other poor [right-wing] people.....
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I don't know what research you're talking about, but it looks more as if a level of poverty for most people is very useful to the rich. Since the very beginning of the current formation of capitalism, poverty for most people is needed to compel us to wage or for capital:pic.twitter.com/u2rubOFb1M
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What is a 'level of poverty'? Some inequality is fine based on lqbor difficulty and contributions, but extreme inequality harms education, increase crime, harms creativity, weaken the economy, etc. Extreme inequality harms the world that the wealthy themselves lives in too.
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Yes and now we live in extreme inequality and it's getting worse. It's very bad --->pic.twitter.com/fFdKqaDug9
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If I don't think about everyone that's suffering, I would wish that I could see how their face looks once the economy falls apart and the ecosystem fails. Money isn't everything... :/
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A level of poverty can be defined to support an overly rosy worldview as Pinker often does. But crucially, true progress is measured not by absolute poverty levels, but by poverty levels relative to our capacity to end it. By that measure, we're doing increasingly worse.
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But Pinker likes to use relative vs absolute numbers as necessary to support his overly rosy thesis.
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It is entirely possible to eradicate poverty if we eradicate the system of capitalism that maintains poverty for most people intentionally. Otherwise it's not very likely. Please do read and comment with your Pinker glasses on:pic.twitter.com/fjM1ZUOwOQ
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And, yes, I do believe people worship money. The brain reacts to secular symbol systems just the same as it reacts to religious symbol systems. You don't take a different brain to church than to the job.
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It won't happen as long as people value money over human life. The worship of money is a persistent problem with the human race because the brain loves symbols and uses them to contain emotion.
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Human nature is variable and the economic / cultural system of capitalism promotes this money-centric greed worship that you describe, but this is clearly NOT the totality of human nature. Look to some deep history through anthropology: http://radicalanthropologygroup.org/av/video/palaeolithic-politics-and-why-it-still-matters …
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Apparently, one method that will help to alleviate poverty will be to confiscate, without compensation, all farms owned by white South Africans.
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Well that's a huge straw man here in this field, picking on a bone that you clearly have about one historical moment. But ok...
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