http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2010-09-23
We're getting some Maraschino-tier cherry tonight boys, rev up your capture nets.
I think that leaving poverty is not overly wonderful, as you put it, on its own.
Then you've never experienced poverty, apparently, or anything close to it. Either that or you're just bugfuck insane, and not in anything approaching a good way. There's not really a third option, tbh.
You know, I had a good feeling when I wrote those words that someone would come along, delete all the context of my post, and then use it to maliciously declare me an insane idiot, but I thought to myself "Hey, Bay 12 are often reasonable people, maybe what I wrote will be taken in the spirit of its context instead of isolated and dissected in the tradition of 24-hour news casts".
And here we are.
Look. If you can't recognize that blundering out of starvation poverty into a socially-numb politically dysfunctional surveillance state while the whole world is on the cusp of giving up the ghost environmentally is an improvement, but definitely not in the spirit of what anti-poverty measures are about, I can't help you to understand that any more than what I have said.
There is a wider picture going on than just endemic poverty, a state most of the world is already not in. There is no progress bar that goes from 0 to 100% on fixing poverty, and once it's filled we've nixed the root of our sick society and repaired the world in the humanistic ideal that things like that are founded on.
1976? Really? Come on man, I know rewriting the past is cool these days, but some of us were alive back then. You're going back to the Club of Rome era and acting like they were taken seriously right away? Check your facts brah.
Something, something, men believing what their jobs demand they believe.
Hey, it was good enough for the President of the United States at the time, who was then demonized forevermore for trying to do things to a higher standard and replaced with the second coming of Supply-Side Jesus.