Hi Chelsea,
Thanks so much for the re-steem!
Our emotional buttons are being pushed by people who have decades of experience in button pushing.
Unfortunately the press still has this cloak of respectability from true journalism, from a time when newspapers actually were able to speak truth to power.
And undoubtedly there are individual journalists who still mean well, the problem is that they participate in an industry which is built on capturing human attention.
To do that, it knows what works: drama, murder and mayhem.
Of course there is still plenty of that but it depends on how you frame it.
If as you say you zoom in closely, you can portray a world on fire, if you have a helicopter view, most things actually are going relatively well.
Very true words. I hear so many complaints of poverty and while i do not doubt it, as you said, the cases of extreme poverty are decreasing daily.
Another issue i see with "poverty " in America and ill preface this by saying, I lived for many years in a very racially and economically divided area. These "poor" are poor only in their minds. Many of them that were living off government funded programs had huge tvs, nice cars, phones, etc. I don't see that as poor. But maybe I'm missing something
Absolutely, the trick is though in their mind they truly think they are poor because they are comparing with those that have more. As you say most of it is mental.
I'd like to see the people you talk about explain how poor they think they are to the family from Mozambique (in the long Hans Rosling video) who were saving up to buy a bike....
"So you say you are poor, yet you have time to get obsese because you don't exercise enough, because you drive everywhere in your car talking on your phone and sit around all day watching television (never mind the size)... suuuurrrre"
Now don't get me wrong, there are people who are truly suffering and unfortunately people even in the US who can't afford proper food. That is poverty indeed.
You got me! Yes most of these individuals were obese. There were even some selling their food stamps. Which makes me really mad. >_< they were not truly poor and YES there are some truly poor people in America but nothing like the video you're referencing. Not even close. These individuals think that society owes them something and that's a disease itself - the entitlement disease