From: Avatar Polymorph (way@warehouse.net)
Date: Fri Aug 28 1998 - 21:40:16 MDT
Doubtless the 50 million Americans living in poverty appreciate having
some power, food and answering machines, while 80% of the wealth lies
with the top 10%. Ever do a graph of what that looks like? Perhaps you
could debate it with the starving millions across the world. Doesn't
America store enough grain to feed the world for a decade in the event
of a nuclear war? Now it's asking other countries to do that for it.
To think, how little it would take for the elite of the superwealthy to
provide food and power for the bottom third. How very little. How very
very little.
The Australian Government gives one third of one percent of GDP to
foreign aid. America is equally generous. Private citizens who are
wealthy give a pittance.
For those of us who have a strong conception of morality, the surety of
an impending nanotech bounty (presuming America does not decree its
knowledge US-owned - like atomic weapons or particle beam projection
systems) makes us wish to be more generous NOW. When it means even more.
If I ever become wealthy, I intend to put half my wealth into a fund
were the interests goes to the third world and the promotion of
nanotech.
Avatar Polymorph
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