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_manicplanet — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 11:12:39 -0400

I suggest to Mahon that one need not, in fact, look very hard to find people who are content to allow poverty to continue, and the accompanying ability to pay impoverished and disenfranchised people below-market value for the product of their labors. It may not be a rational economic stance, if it is true that increasing wealth increases markets, etc. Harder, I think, to find someone who thinks that all economic actors behave humanely - or even economically rationally.

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_James Mahon — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 10:29:56 -0400

In the spirit of the G8 protests, an activist that my friend saw in Boston last week carried a sign that said 'Abolish Poverty.' No explanation on how to do it. Just a call to action.

That sign best describes the G8 protests that I saw in Edinburgh, UK last Saturday. Bob Geldorf expressed the event's basic premise on UK radio when he said, "We've never been wealthier, we've never been healthier," so we must be able to abolish world poverty. Although the organizers of the event had a policy agenda (drop the debt/increase foreign aid/make trade just), they emphasized that simply something must be done, because it is the humane thing to do.

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