Please go easy on the downvotes—the point here is to try to understand a perspective that many of you probably won’t share.

  • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
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    It’s not even close to enough to eradicate poverty from this planet. You vastly overestimate how much small amounts of money affect things. It may pull some of the ultra-poor out of poverty, but a single $2,000 payment wouldn’t manage to get anyone in the first world out of poverty, and there are plenty of people living in the first world.

    Cost of living varies by country, you’re trying to suggest that redistribution would help people, and it would, but A) that’s not how any sort of tax would be redistributed and B) the amount of money relative to each country isn’t enough to solve any of the problems we’re seeing.