Disparity and the Poor

Rich and Poor

The only way to change the minds of the rich is for them to appreciate their own existence, for them to realize how they got there, why they did, how it affects others.

World disparity widens every single day. So long as a child is born without any dollar or clothes, and the world sharemarket produces a brand new millionaire, disparity in its true raw form, is ever increasing.

But think about it, you'd rather have disparity, where one side evolves to richness unimaginable, and the other side with lesser wealth, than to have a both sides with lesser wealth.

The question is not of disparity but how the rich side of the disparity helps those on the lower side of the disparity.

Causality and Effect

Realize the richer people and the richer economies provides richness to the world economy that steams ahead.

The question is how you can trickle this world richness down to the poor. How can they get a share of the economy? For instance how can the rich pay taxes which can then help those in the slums? How can the richness of Nigeria's oil economy help Nigeria's poor? Through government action and through righteous widespread policies and mindset changes.

When we fail to focus on the proper solution and look at something else, we fail finding the solution to the problem. Yes India is poorer than the US. But that is comparing apples to oranges. First focus on how the bigger apples can help the smaller apples. In the future the oranges and apples will be fully integrated anyway, but that will take time.

The Poor really poor?

But who is really poor? Happiness is in the mind, so who is really better off? A person living is poverty, who is truly happy every day? Or the person who spends every day with a mind in turmoil, amassing enormous wealth. You decide....

Another note worth considering, is the fact of relativity. The poor has grown poorer because of relativity to a incredibly rich world, mainly in the West. But it's basically comparison. One should not compared the East and West, because they are totally different worlds. But one should see the suffering of those living in lower wealthy nations, and attempt to alleviate it.