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At least 80% of humanity lives on less than $10 a day.Source 1
More than 80 percent of the world’s population lives in countries where income differentials are widening.Source 2
The poorest 40 percent of the world’s population accounts for 5 percent of global income. The richest 20 percent accounts for three-quarters of world income.Source 3
Christian tradition demands basic sustenance for all as a human right. Yet the contemporary capitalist economy makes no such demands, and the free market is not designed to provide basic human sustenance. As Western Christians, how ought we to solve this conundrum? Kent Van Til maintains that the gulf between the two calls for an alternative system of distribution. In this constructively critical work Van Til takes a hard look at the realities of life in a free-market system, including illuminating examples from his own experience in Latin America. He considers how the contemporary capitalist economy guides the distribution of goods around the world, and he examines the inadequacies of this system. Drawing heavily on the ideas of political theorist Michael Walzer and nineteenth-century theologian-statesman Abraham Kuyper, Van Til proposes an alternative system of distributive justice, equalizing the claims to both burdens and benefits.
Did you know that ~50% of the world's population lives on less than $2 a day?
Christian tradition demands basic sustenance for all as a human right.
America with only 6% of the global population controls over 50% of the world's wealth. Also keep in mind that even in the wealthiest country in the world, America, the top 2% of the population controls over 50% of the wealth. That is the New World Order system, and it will only get worse. Pretty soon WE AMERICANS will be in the shoes of the 3rd-world poor, unless this Globalization nightmare is stopped.