Unfortunately this comment (rightly or wrongly) has made me think less of you and doubt the integrity of some of your other arguments and comments. I feel like its important for someone here to say publically that I strongly disagree with this line of thinking and find it abhorent and a horrible way to look at the world, and people who are far worse of than us.
I have published 2posts arguing for people to donate to people in extreme poverty, and I have donated to organisations helping them too. I only started worrying about the meat-eating problem much later.
Many of the poor are not pulling their own weight, while the wealthy are pulling much more than their weight.
This sentence of the post relates to the following earlier claims.
Wealthy people — say, the top 20% of income earners — are paying almost all of the net tax burden. The bottom 40% are consuming much more government resources than they are paying in, and that’s paid for by the top quintile.
These are accurate at least for the United States. “The top quintile funded 90.1 percent, or $1.6 trillion, of all government transfers in 2019”.
The bottom quintile receives 1.27 $ from the government, 90.1 % of which come from the top quintile, for each 1 $ they spend. I am thankful to people who give me money regardness of their income. I do not know why this would not apply to people with low income.
I see no reason why my super poor friends here in the village in Uganda should be “thanking the rich”. The world has developed around them, and their quality of life has not improved to the extent that it should have, given how many resource there are in this world.
I do not know about the situation in Uganda. It may not be analogous to that in the United States.
Hi Nick.
I have published 2 posts arguing for people to donate to people in extreme poverty, and I have donated to organisations helping them too. I only started worrying about the meat-eating problem much later.
This sentence of the post relates to the following earlier claims.
These are accurate at least for the United States. “The top quintile funded 90.1 percent, or $1.6 trillion, of all government transfers in 2019”.
The bottom quintile receives 1.27 $ from the government, 90.1 % of which come from the top quintile, for each 1 $ they spend. I am thankful to people who give me money regardness of their income. I do not know why this would not apply to people with low income.
I do not know about the situation in Uganda. It may not be analogous to that in the United States.