Less Than Two Dollars a Day: A Christian View of World Poverty and the Free Market

Did you know that ~50% of the world's population lives on less than $2 a day? Can you possibly imagine living on less than even $5 a day?

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

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Site's got some good statistics on global poverty.



I also found a book, Less Than Two Dollars a Day: A Christian View of World Poverty and the Free Market; it's worth reading if only to realize just how lucky you are living in the First World.

From the description:

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.

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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.

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Did you know that ~50% of the world's population lives on less than $2 a day?

In the USA, no. In some places in the world, $2 goes further.

Christian tradition demands basic sustenance for all as a human right.

I scanned your link but did not see any back up to this claim. What Christian tradition? Do you know, or are you just quoting someone else and using that as proof?
This is based on Van Til's view on bible and scripture. www.hope.edu...

I do not equate this one man's opinion as truth.

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.

That 50 % of weahlth is not under control of America. It is under control of the empire America.

Maybe you haven't heard, but the US has currently more debt then everybody on this planet could even imagin in cash to be around The big corporate industries are the main and only reason national economies were destroyed. There are almost no nations left with a self sustaining economy.

WTSHTF the result will always end in a loose loose situation.

Even when that 50 % of wealth was shared by all americans I would say they are all immoral basterds.

On a finite world it isn't a smart thing to keep wanting more then you need.