Let the poor live

Politics

Drafted: 2023-06-07 Published: 2023-12-01

What the world needs right now is empathy. We all love rags-to-riches stories, don't we? For every such story, there are a hundred others where the story is rags to rags. Generation by generation, they are trapped in this vicious cycle of poverty that does not let them climb up.

It is a real-life Hunger Games - those who climb up are celebrated (T&C Apply), and those who don't are discarded. If you win, you and your heirs are rewarded. If you lose, it is Hunger Games all over for your children. The rich cannot care less for the people dying but might rather be betting on whether you live or die (e.g., predatory lending practices).

From an ethical point of view, is it fair that two babies born at the same moment - one of them has every need and want met, and the other cannot even get a single meal a day? The rich build monopolies while pretending to foster competition - both in business and in the personal world.

Hypothetically, let us say we pass a law that does not allow you to raise your own babies - you are randomly assigned another kid born at the same time. You would see the rich crying for egalitarianism that helps level societal inequality (while parallelly trying to use their money to bribe people so that this law does not apply to them).

People want their own heirs to win the game of life. Sure, you want your kid to have an edge, understandable, but there should not be a world of difference. No kid should have to depend on their parents' income to get the very basic necessities like food, shelter, and education. Let me generalise that - no human should need to struggle to stay alive in our world.

Something I find very interesting in the USA is that most of the people defending tax cuts to the rich are not doing so well financially themselves. This is the American Dream™ - projecting yourself as a future multi-millionaire and encouraging tax cuts to the rich so that you don't get taxed a lot in the future. The only thing trickling down in Trickle-Down Economics is the blood of the poor.