Bono has a question. Does Yahoo! have Answers?
July 7th, 2006 at 12:00 pm | posted by Erin, ONE StaffAs part of Yahoo’s new Yahoo! Answers, Bono is asking
the world “What can we do to make poverty history?” Bono’s question
is the last in a series of 25 questions posed by global thinkers, politicians
and celebrities. Every Yahoo user has a chance to answer Bono’s big question.
The best part is Yahoo! will donate $25,000 to The Global Fund to fight AIDS,
Tuberculosis and Malaria…and $1,000 to the person with the best
answer.
I know I’ll submit an answer, and though I surely won’t
be the winner I know when we work together as ONE we get a bit closer to making
poverty history. Feel free to comment and share your ideas
below.
August 22nd, 2007 at 11:07 pm
how can we help to stop poverty from damaging other countries? Can i please have an answer today?
September 13th, 2007 at 11:26 am
The answer to Bono’s question: “WHAT CAN WE DO TO MAKE POVERTY HISTORY? is:
When all people around the world respond in one accord to the plea of which details you can learn on the web-site
http://www.peace365.org
In Peace Forever
Marek and supporters
April 9th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
Poverty is a necessity in order for the world to move forward. While no-one wants to be poor, or be deprived of things that people want or need, it is necessary. Please let me explain.
When someone has something, anything, and another person wants it, they may possibly purchase it. That item whatever it is now becomes a commodity. Thus, now the person that had it no longer has it and either needs to make more, manufacture more or be satisfied that they have something in exchange for it such as money or another item if it was traded. The person that bought it now has it, will consume it, use it, keep it or resell or rebarter for it. This is a simple example of comerce. Now, how does this relate to poverty, well, when someone wants something and they can not get it due to economics or lack of resources to get it, then effectively that individual is impoverished to get that item. Now, we can all agree that the lack of ability to get a nice purse or car is hard to compare to the lack of ability to get food for a day or shelter, but the principle is the same. Thus, based upon that, poverty is a necessity of society in our present form. As long as there is the desire to improve one’s self there will always be someone that has to be lower on the pole because that individual was not able to out-bid, or out pay someone else for the item that they needed. If we combine that principle with the effects of greed and desire, then this situation is compounded. As long as there will be greed in the world there will always be poverty.
So, to answer Bono’s question, in order for us to make poverty history, we as a society must eliminate greed. Unfortunately, this is impossible, because it is engrained in everyone to strive to be the best. To be the top, to do better, to have more, to do more for our family, and ourselves.
As much as I like Bono, I would have to say that his comment does nothing but stir the line of communication like this. It does nothing to resolve it as nothing can be done to resolve it. From a Micro to a macro economic climate nobody can eliminate greed unless we all agree to live in a Eutopian society. Then again, if we do live in that type of society, nothing would be done to improve human advancement in the world as there could not be any competition, or desire to succeed beyond anyone else. Thus, if that happened humans as we know it would cease to exist because something else would come along to dominate us, perhaps animals because they have greed in the sense that they will do whatever they need to do to survive, ie survival of the fittest.
Think about that next time you cut in front of someone when driving in a car, you had the greed to get ahead. Think about that the next time you don’t give that extra dime back when you received too much change back after buying your coffee…you again had greed. Think about that the next time you cheat ever so slightly at a game, you again had greed to win.
A comment of “what can we do to make poverty history” is lip service only and will never, nay….can never be resolved for as long as there is greed in the world in any slight way or form will always promote someone else to have “less” than we have because we want to be number one.
April 9th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
Poverty is a necessity in order for the world to move forward. While no-one wants to be poor, or be deprived of things that people want or need, it is necessary. Please let me explain.
When someone has something, anything, and another person wants it, they may possibly purchase it. That item whatever it is now becomes a commodity. Thus, now the person that had it no longer has it and either needs to make more, manufacture more or be satisfied that they have something in exchange for it such as money or another item if it was traded. The person that bought it now has it, will consume it, use it, keep it or resell or rebarter for it. This is a simple example of comerce. Now, how does this relate to poverty, well, when someone wants something and they can not get it due to economics or lack of resources to get it, then effectively that individual is impoverished to get that item. Now, we can all agree that the lack of ability to get a nice purse or car is hard to compare to the lack of ability to get food for a day or shelter, but the principle is the same. Thus, based upon that, poverty is a necessity of society in our present form. As long as there is the desire to improve one’s self there will always be someone that has to be lower on the pole because that individual was not able to out-bid, or out pay someone else for the item that they needed. If we combine that principle with the effects of greed and desire, then this situation is compounded. As long as there will be greed in the world there will always be poverty.
So, to answer Bono’s question, in order for us to make poverty history, we as a society must eliminate greed. Unfortunately, this is impossible, because it is engrained in everyone to strive to be the best. To be the top, to do better, to have more, to do more for our family, and ourselves.
As much as I like Bono, I would have to say that his comment does nothing but stir the line of communication like this. It does nothing to resolve it as nothing can be done to resolve it. From a Micro to a macro economic climate nobody can eliminate greed unless we all agree to live in a Eutopian society. Then again, if we do live in that type of society, nothing would be done to improve human advancement in the world as there could not be any competition, or desire to succeed beyond anyone else. Thus, if that happened humans as we know it would cease to exist because something else would come along to dominate us, perhaps animals because they have greed in the sense that they will do whatever they need to do to survive, ie survival of the fittest.
Think about that next time you cut in front of someone when driving in a car, you had the greed to get ahead. Think about that the next time you don’t give that extra dime back when you received too much change back after buying your coffee…you again had greed. Think about that the next time you cheat ever so slightly at a game, you again had greed to win.
A comment of “what can we do to make poverty history” is lip service only and will never, nay….can never be resolved for as long as there is greed in the world in any slight way or form will always promote someone else to have “less” than we have because we want to be number one.