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Post by htaylor on Jan 15, 2016 5:08:40 GMT
I totally agree with Lauren that it is a shared responsibility because people are born with unequal opportunities. I also want to add that poverty exists because of the poor distribution of wealth. And one single individual has no control over that distribution, thereby eliminating poverty as an individual's sole responsibility or fault. In order to fix poverty we must first look at what is causing such a large wealth gap in our nation and work on correcting it as a society or allow the government to create a way to make a more socialist economy with wealth more evenly spread among the population.
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Post by Nicholas on Jan 15, 2016 6:16:54 GMT
Making everyone equal isn't the answer because there will always be people who have more and those who have less. Having less money is not necessarily bad, just because you're rich doesn't make you happy, better or more successful as a human being. However, it's our responsibility to make sure that people have the basics of food, safe shelter, a chance to be educated and to get a good paying job if they are willing. If we care about this and work to make this available, it might not end poverty but it will give people a way to get themselves out of it.
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Post by emilykbrumley on Jan 15, 2016 7:38:06 GMT
I agree with Nicholas; as we know it doesn't really work if everyone is made equal. As we know from communist societies such as the Soviet Union and China under Mao Zedong, when everyone is absolutely equal not only is there no incentive to innovate and grow as a society, it also makes it very easy for the people in control of that "equality" to exploit it to their own benefit. While this is not reason to sit back and allow people to continue in the cycle of poverty that many people have talked about, it shows that government aid should only go so far, as the potential for individual upward mobility is what incentivizes and pushes society forward.
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Post by nicholasscopazzi on Jan 15, 2016 9:56:02 GMT
Poverty has many other factors than just money that make it difficult for students to succeed. As Camillo stated broken families can cause large problems in the kid's life. These things cannot be accounted for and make helping people in that situation even harder than expected. To help kids from impoverished areas free tutors should be provided. Menlo-Atheron offers tutoring after school and many teachers are willing to offer help. However, Camillo, with two many random variables such as home life and personal incentive society cannot help those who do not want help themselves.
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Post by Nicholas on Jan 19, 2016 5:54:25 GMT
Poverty is a huge problem and it's gonna take a long time to find a solution. So it's a shared responsibility to help people get to a place where they can make an individual effort. But if programs are put into place and a person doesn't take the opportunity then they deserve to stay in poverty. So it's both a shared responsibility and an individual one.
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