Submitted by discodeathsquad t3_10befze in springfieldMO
kjchoi55 t1_j4d8k88 wrote
What causes poverty? Nothing. It's the original state, the default and starting point. The real question is, what causes prosperity.
Capitalism gets blamed for all kinds of things in error.
If you think there aren't poor people under systems other than capitalism then you're just uninformed.
In other systems everyone is poor so I mean pick your poison.
Nothing beats free markets.
Iron_Worker_ t1_j4ddh81 wrote
“The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying, This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars, and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not anyone have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows, “Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.” – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
By what mad reasoning have you determined that poverty is the default state of man? Money and debt are made up things. They literally aren't real! My god man, stop and think with your own mind for a moment!
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