/poverty/ - Poverty & Thrift

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Kinda depends on the unique situations of each area. I would say government assistance is a decent option. Unions and partial ownership may also help but I'd want to know more details about how. Personally I think income inequality is a major contributor to problems in society, this ted talk covers a bit of what I see in that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWpMr82jnf8

–basically what the guy says is whether you reach a reduction in the wealth gap via taxes, via aid programs, via whatever, a closing of the gap is what helps.

p.s. did you claim the board?

I don't know about replacing the capitalist economy but I agree with >>283
about employee owned enterprises. Less money goes to the executives and more goes to the workers.

I also think that the United States should allow 10 people to collect all their unemployment checks in a year if they promise to create a worker owned business. Or we could get rid of our current inefficient and bureaucratic welfare system and get a universal basic income. Not a living wage, but just a simple ubi of 5 thousand dollars or so.

>>277
Living wage. Plain and simple.

A benefit is just the government subsidising the wages of the corporations.

What would happen if we had no benefit and no minimum wage? Poor people would have no way to survive. What happens when you have an entire underclass that can't purchase anything? The vendors stop getting their money, for one, in turn making less profit. Furthermore, they begin to turn to crime and steal to survive.

Cutting all those protections and watching the fallout is a nasty way to come to the same conclusion: a living wage.

>>283
Aren't the Rothschilds the wealthiest family?

>>366
The Rothschilds? If this were 19th century Europe, then yes.

Community action and a worker run means of production.

Mainly community action though, I think that is key.