"The last domino falls here"-Liberty Prime

Poverty is a tough topic to discuss. Considering I am looking at the topic through the eyes of someone who has some prosperity, my answer to the question is diffused. In my opinion, the basic needs for survival are food and clean water. Basic needs are the basis for human survival. Every human needs these to live. I don’t think anyone will complain trying to keep people alive but who should provide for these needs is where the trouble begins. Infrastructure is the basic structures that help society run. Without infrastructure like roads or power plants, a nation cannot get jobs and goods out to its people easily. It would take more than just people to get a manufacturing plant started. The people need to get to work from the countryside somehow and the plant needs to be powered so the machines could work. A balance of basic needs and infrastructure needs to established into to help reduce poverty in the world. Without basic needs, people will not want to work or do anything. Without infrastructure people cannot get to work. Both push people to work and help a nation become productive. The question now falls to who pays for all of this?

Money makes the world go round is probably the one phrase that never seems to fail. Without money, stuff doesn’t happen. In order to reduce poverty basic needs AND infrastructure needs to both be addressed but who get the privilege to pay for all of this. I believe that the responsibility can be split temporarily between international organizations and the state government. Basic needs can and should be supplied by international organizations for a short time. Basic needs are cheap and should be guaranteed for every person. This can easily be accomplished by the World Food Program or other international groups. This wouldn’t last forever though. Infrastructure should be taken care of by the state government. Each nation’s government should take care of its roads and water supply. With power plants, water processing plants and roads set up, people will be able to work. When people are able to work they will be able to pay for their own food, therefore international organizations can fall back and the nation will provide for its people entirely. Achieving the goal to remove poverty is a difficult task because it has to deal with balance, and anytime balance is brought up in international politics there is always trouble. And so I’ll end this post with 2 questions: Is balance between basic needs and infrastructure possible? and Would you support a robot that spouts out pro-American, anti-Chinese phrases and throws nukes from its back? Just something to ponder.