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Measuring the world’s poor who 'live below the poverty line' : Comments
By Ben Coleridge, published 27/5/2011How measurements of the world’s poor as income deprived fails to miss the cultural, social and political realities of who gets to eat and who doesn’t.
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Since the definitive difference between rich and poor is capital, we may identify the existence of this evil institution as the source of the problem. Instead of foregoing consumption earlier to produce goods which may enable increased production later of outputs per unit of inputs, how much better off the world would be if, warbling our woodnotes wild, we consumed all we produce without inequitable capital, i.e. with our bare hands.
We need to start again with an economic system that’s not based on profit. Therefore any finished product must never be worth more than the factors of production that went into making it. That should do the job! Instead of digging ore out of the earth, smelting metals, and using them to make stuff, we should dig it out and re-bury it somewhere else equally difficult to extract again. The more things are done at a loss, the more we could ensure the elimination of accursed profits and the world would be better off.
Our ideal economic system also needs to cut back on economic growth, which does not result from people exchanging goods and services to satisfy their wants for life, family, and enjoyment, but from evil exploitative capitalist bastards running a neoliberal ideology based on bourgeois rationalism. Therefore all computers must be replaced with quill-pens, and all internal combustion engines with horses. Where crops are harvested with combines, their tyres should be let down, and where harvested with sickles, everyone should be issued with a smaller sickle. Then what an earthly paradise we would enjoy!