Honesty of an orphan street girl will make you think

[jamahir]

I will leave it to you to how you will respond to this vid :

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[jamahir]

@Mage

 

[Mage]

@Mage

Don't think she's just 3 years old. But that doesn't matter. Usually poor people tends to be more honest. Money and power corrupts people.

 

[jamahir]

Don't think she's just 3 years old. But that doesn't matter. Usually poor people tends to be more honest. Money and power corrupts people.

Well, I think the middle class is generally the most dishonest. Or if they are honest, most times they don't have the financial means to help the poor like this young man did for the girl. Even I sometimes feel guilty that I cannot help every person on the street who makes a living by selling pens, flags etc.

Which is why I want a socialist society that is concerned more with people than with building or buying weapons.

 

[Joe Shearer]

Don't think she's just 3 years old. But that doesn't matter. Usually poor people tends to be more honest. Money and power corrupts people.

She's not three, she goes to school, she says. She's a starved and ill-fed five to seven-year old. But that's not the point.

As you very rightly said, money and power corrupts MOST people.

 

[Mage]

Well, I think the middle class is generally the most dishonest. Or if they are honest, most times they don't have the financial means to help the poor like this young man did for the girl. Even I sometimes feel guilty that I cannot help every person on the street who makes a living by selling pens, flags etc.

Which is why I want a socialist society that is concerned more with people than with building or buying weapons.

In BD, I used to feel sad for not buying stuff like popcorn, pens or flags from the people selling them in streets. But I was a poor student who survived by the pocket money I was given by my parents

 

[Joe Shearer]

Well, I think the middle class is generally the most dishonest. Or if they are honest, most times they don't have the financial means to help the poor like this young man did for the girl. Even I sometimes feel guilty that I cannot help every person on the street who makes a living by selling pens, flags etc.

Which is why I want a socialist society that is concerned more with people than with building or buying weapons.

You will have people agree with you - a very few - and you will have people disagree with you, the vast majority. You have to make up your mind, and I am sure you have already proceeded far on that journey, on several things. Do you know what is right, and what you stand for? Can you afford to stand for it, and resist pressure to change? Have you written off the others and couldn't care less about them? Do you still want to help them get out of their narrow, blinkered thinking and think of the greater good of humanity?

I ask, dear Jamahir, from a position of some piquancy.

My answers to the questions that I suggested for any person of conscience and a consciousness of a higher morality are thus: Yes; No, not entirely; No; Yes.

 

[Mage]

Which is why I want a socialist society that is concerned more with people than with building or buying weapons.

A society should focus on development rather than ideology. Once developed(rich) enough it is much easier to implement welfare policies to take care of the poors.

 

[Riz]

Don't think she's just 3 years old. But that doesn't matter. Usually poor people tends to be more honest. Money and power corrupts people.

Beautiful my friend... Money and power makes us corrupt...

 

[Joe Shearer]

A society should focus on development rather than ideology. Once developed(rich) enough it is much easier to implement welfare policies to take care of the poors.

Easier said than done.

About fifteen to seventeen rich people in India have the same amount of wealth as 50% of the poorest part of the Indian population. Think about this.

 

[Mage]

Easier said than done.

About fifteen to seventeen rich people in India have the same amount of wealth as 50% of the poorest part of the Indian population. Think about this.

It is similar everywhere. If those rich people invest in India instead of taking their wealth offshore, it will benefit India. That's why it is necessary to have a business friendly environment.

 

[Joe Shearer]

It is similar everywhere. If those rich people invest in India instead of taking their wealth offshore, it will benefit India. That's why it is necessary to have a business friendly environment.

It is not about those people. It is about a nation that cannot organise a more even distribution of wealth. I am not suggesting that these seventeen or whatever the correct number is should be hanged and their wealth distributed to the bottom 50%. I am suggesting that such extremes should be evened out, by legislative and executive action.

 

[Mage]

I am suggesting that such extremes should be evened out, by legislative and executive action.

What would be an effective way to even it out?

 

[Bilal9]

Easier said than done.

About fifteen to seventeen rich people in India have the same amount of wealth as 50% of the poorest part of the Indian population. Think about this.

And those seventeen rich Indians (as well as their cohorts overseas) are crass enough to trumpet their lifestyles in media on a regular basis - so the rest of us think that being filthy rich, sucking the livelihoods out of millions of poor folks, taking advantage of them at every opportunity and being proud of it - is just routine stuff!

Same story in Bangladesh as well...

 

[Joe Shearer]

What would be an effective way to even it out?

• Progressive and leak-proof taxes on the richest;
• Ensuring three square meals a day and minimal housing and clothing for the poorest;
• Skilling of the poor to enable them to earn their living;