>>13809528No one cares about the "actual statement" the CNN title was what everyone used to share their sentiment that billionaires are bad and are the problem in solving world hunger.
US alone has donated trillions over the last few years in stopping poverty and world hunger, the entire developed world has been donating for as long as capitalistic nations thrived. Poverty and famine will continue to exist even in future, its merely inefficiencies in policy making not monetary issue.
Lets say there are a billion people hungry every day, if you give them an avg of $3 in food everyday, thats $3 billion per day. Its only a trillion dollar per year issue. That seems large, but its nothing because the problem wont be solved that simply. We need to add in administrative fees, logistics fees and global political fees. In many cases, these charities are mostly going towards the fees rather than directly to the food issue. As much as 90% of charity might go towards fees. Further more, food is a non issue, we can over-produce food all the time, it makes no difference because the problems of policy/logistics/administrative fees are the problem. US gives billions each year to farmers to NOT farm on their land, so as to not create pricing wars between farmers and create an economic collapse.
Then we need a way to reduce the poverty rather than actually increase the poverty by forcing them rely on the aid instead of themselves. Learned helplessness is a thing and its dangerous.
