Another wonderful post, @momogrow :-) You're clearly concerned with your fellow human beings, which is a beautiful thing. I myself have very specific and rather extreme viewpoints on money and economics and consider the existence of unwanted poverty one of our greatest failures. The fact that we produce foos for 12 billion people but aren't able to feed the 7.4 billion there actually are, the fact that almost every major city has lots of empty buildings, but also have countless homeless people, the fact that millions of produced cars don't get sold or "recycled" long before they're used up... I could go on and on. We have enormous abundance, yet poverty exists. That's a failure of economy and government. And when in a democracy we are supposed to be that government, that makes it our failure.
Just my two cents :-)
Thank you and great viewpoints. As a society we are constantly wasting. Poverty could be eradicated if we weren’t focused on profit and greed. However, do u think a poverty-stricken person can be happy with no basic needs met?