After going through the powerpoint and the other folders in this session, I realized how difficult poverty is to understand. Like honestly, when you're talking about more than half of 6 billion people being in poverty it seems so unrealistic. It was really hard for me to grasp poverty in a global context. I felt like while I was going through each slide and going through the folders, everything just seemed like a merry go round. Like it'd go from A to B to C back to A again. It makes me really wonder if there really IS a way to stop poverty or if it's just an issue that has possible solutions however aren't entirely probable. What I most enjoyed was the article from Time Magazine. I loved how it pretty much touched upon poverty globally and in the U.S. Also in the article it gives us the degrees of poverty. I felt like this is important to understand because people who are in extreme poverty are struggling more than just financially- their drinking water is unsanitary, they're chronically hungry, they're unable to get healthcare, can't afford education and maybe even a stable roof over their heads. Time Magazine put this as "the poverty that kills".
The poverty that kills....I literally had to stop while reading the article and just think about that. My mind refused to grasp that this kind of poverty exists in the world. While this kind of poverty only exists now in developing countries, it's still depressing to know that this type of poverty has that much power to take millions of lives away each year.
I agree with you in the idea of the merry go round. Poverty is an ongoing problem that doesnt really show any signs of ending anytime soon. Honoestly I dont really think there will come a time when we totally eliminate poverty, but im sure it doesnt have to be as bad as it currently is.
ReplyDeleteYea, I don't think there's any nation actually helping poverty when we, ourselves, have one of the highest poverty rate. If so, they must be getting something out of it in return. We live in a free market system where there are competitions. In my knowledge, well developed nations has been taking advantage of the third world countries to place sweat shops and vocational spots, paying these people for cheap labor. This is why we still have poverty throughout the world. The UN Millennium Project sounds like a good solution, but it will not eliminate poverty entirely. Do we really think a group/organization can keep one third of the people in this world out of poverty? NO WAY! It's definitely a dog eat dog world and people are just vicious when it comes to global poverty.
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