Table of contents.

1. Basic riches.
2. Why basic riches must be granted.
3. Why poverty still exists.

Basic riches.

Rich.
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Riches.
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Rich implies:

• Rights and freedom granted by other persons.
• Use of goods and services.

Basic riches for a decent modern life comprise.

• Healthy (vegan) food that does not impose needless distress on emotional beings.
  Diet.
• Protection in any way paid by the society.
  Protection against aging and diseases.
  Protection against mental problems.
  Protection against the environment.
  Safe modern medical care must be granted to every person for free.
  Safe modern housing must be granted to every person for free.
  Modern life in modern cities.
  Good guard.
• Knowledge and no bad privacy.
  Privacy.
  Use of computers for uncensored communication.
  No censorship of technical platforms like e.g. the internet by the government.
  Even false or offensive information is important. At least for scientists and historians who work with information from the past.
• Ability to work in a profitable way.
  Profitable means that the benefits are greater than the costs.
  School.
  Lusty life.
  Not wage slavery.
  wikipedia: Wage slavery
  Not workfare.
  wikipedia: Workfare
• Use of good government and science and technology to promote pleasure and to abolish distress.
  Politics.
  Machine person.
  The Hedonistic Imperative.

The human rights that most nations grant but do not enforce in 2019.

• Quote:
  Economic, social and cultural rights
  The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights entered into force in 1976, and had 164 states parties by the end of October 2016. The human rights that the Covenant seeks to promote and protect include:
  
  • the right to work in just and favourable conditions;
  • the right to social protection, to an adequate standard of living and to the highest attainable standards of physical and mental well-being;
  • the right to education and the enjoyment of benefits of cultural freedom and scientific progress.

Why basic riches must be granted.

Local problems are global problems.
Global problems are local problems.
For ethical reasons.
For physical reasons.

Poverty has wasted billions of man-years by lack of good government and science and technology.
wikipedia: man-year.

Poverty has enforced needless distress for billions of years (= persons * years of personal life that matter) by lack of good government and science and technology.

Many more billions of years of distress and waste in the future because of retarded development in the past and in the present.

Lack of good government and science and technology harms everyone and everything.
Government and science and technology (GOST).
Good change determines life and death of sentient beings every second.
Every second matters.

Poverty has enforced needless harm and waste of human work for billions of years (= persons * years of personal life that matter) because of lack of good schools and lack of science and technology including medical care and infrastructure and automation by machines.
Many more billions of years of distress and waste in the future because of retarded development in the past and in the present.

Science and technology and good management are the basis of health and wealth and good change.

Envienta: The Zero Marginal Cost Society - Jeremy Rifkin (2015-06-17).

The puzzle of motivation | Dan Pink (2009-08-25).

RSA ANIMATE: Dan Pink: Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us (2010-04-01).

The Super Mario Effect - Tricking Your Brain into Learning More | Mark Rober | TEDxPenn (2018-05-31).

Good leadership and beneficial activity is only guaranteed by the desire and deeds of capable persons.

Jason Schreier: How BioWare's Anthem Went Wrong (2019-04-02).

• Quote:
  Dozens of developers, many of them decade-long veterans, have left BioWare over the past two years. Some who have worked at BioWare’s longest-running office in Edmonton talk about depression and anxiety. Many say they or their co-workers had to take “stress leave”—a doctor-mandated period of weeks or even months worth of vacation for their mental health. One former BioWare developer told me they would frequently find a private room in the office, shut the door, and just cry. “People were so angry and sad all the time,” they said. Said another: “Depression and anxiety are an epidemic within Bioware.”
• Quote:
  If Dragon Age: Inquisition hadn’t been so successful, perhaps BioWare would have changed its production practices. Perhaps studio leadership wouldn’t have preached so strongly about that BioWare magic—that last-minute cohesion that they all assumed would happen with enough hard work and enough crunch.
• Quote:
  “They talk a lot about the six-year development time, but really the core gameplay loop, the story, and all the missions in the game were made in the last 12 to 16 months because of that lack of vision and total lack of leadership across the board,” said the developer.
• Quote:
  “I would say it ended up being quite a stressful time and a lot of people started to develop tunnel vision,” said one developer. “They have to finish their thing and they don’t have the time.” That, the developer added, is one of the explanations for some of Anthem’s critical flaws.

One person can change the world and the future if granted the riches to do it.

• Wikipedia: G.H. Hardy.
  • Quote:
    Though Hardy wanted his maths to be "pure" and devoid of any application, much of his work has found applications in other branches of science.
  Wikipedia: A Mathematician's Apology (1940).
  • Quote:
    Some of Hardy's examples seem unfortunate in retrospect. For example, he writes, "No one has yet discovered any warlike purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity, and it seems unlikely that anyone will do so for many years." Since then number theory was used to crack German enigma codes and much later, figure prominently in public-key cryptography.[2] However, Hardy's more prominent examples of elegant mathematical discoveries with no use (proofs of the infinitude of primes and of the irrationality of the square root of two) still hold up[citation needed].
  This is the result of personal wealth and time and interest.
  It is the opposite of enforced greed and poverty and conformity and duty and wage slavery and brutal cut-throat stupidity.
• The man who taught infinity: how GH Hardy tamed Srinivasa Ramanujan’s genius (2016-04-22).
  This is the result of personal wealth and time and interest.
  It is the opposite of enforced greed and poverty and conformity and duty and wage slavery and brutal cut-throat stupidity.
  Although the early death of Srinivasa Ramanujan is probably caused by enforced greed and poverty and conformity and duty and wage slavery and brutal cut-throat stupidity in India.
• An Oklahoma High Schooler Changed the Rules of Organic Chemistry (2018-12-10).
  This is the result of personal wealth and time and interest.
  It is the opposite of enforced greed and poverty and conformity and duty and wage slavery and brutal cut-throat stupidity.
• The Englishman who saved Japan’s cherry blossoms (2019-03-23).
  This is the result of personal wealth and time and interest.
  It is the opposite of enforced greed and poverty and conformity and duty and wage slavery and brutal cut-throat stupidity.
• This Elusive Marine Creature Is Going Extinct Before Our Eyes, With Barely 10 Left Alive (2019-03-20).
  This is the result of enforced greed and poverty and conformity and duty and wage slavery and brutal cut-throat stupidity.

Why poverty still exists.

Poverty harms everyone and everything for no good reason.
Poverty must be abolished NOW.
Every second matters.

Poverty is always the political choice of the stupid and evil democratic majority (that might be the largest minority that elects the government).

• Stupid because of ignorance of what is real.
• Evil because of acceptance of poverty and austerity for no good reason.
  

Where there's a will, there's a way.

The world only needs 30 billion dollars a year to eradicate the scourge of hunger (2008-06-30).

Statement on Visit to the United Kingdom, by Professor Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights (2018-11-16).

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  The experience of the United Kingdom, especially since 2010, underscores the conclusion that poverty is a political choice. Austerity could easily have spared the poor, if the political will had existed to do so. Resources were available to the Treasury at the last budget that could have transformed the situation of millions of people living in poverty, but the political choice was made to fund tax cuts for the wealthy instead.

British children living in poverty 'could hit record high' – report (2019-02-20).

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  This is having a direct impact on child poverty, said the report, which has been increasing continuously since 2011. It predicts that by 2023-24 the proportion of children living in relative poverty (after housing costs) is on course to hit 37% – exceeding the previous record high of 34% in the early 1990s. This could mean an extra 1 million children living in poverty in the next five years, it said.

The following links are mainly about the USA because the USA is often mentioned as a rich country that proves the benefits of a capitalistic militaristic anti-social anti-intellectual religious cutthroat society that has always elected warmongers (and thus war criminals) from 2 similar political parties to the highest office.

America Has Been at War 93% of the Time – 222 out of 239 Years – Since 1776 (2015-02-20).

INFOGRAPHIC: We Could End Homelessness With The Money Americans Spend On Christmas Decorations (2012-12-10).

Howard Schultz: Starbucks Billionaire: You Can’t Have Healthcare Or College (2018-06-08), time 47.

UN Head: US Has 'Morally Wrong' Healthcare System Because Of Corruption (2018-09-29).

The Government Fee That Can Cost Poor Philadelphians Their Inheritance (2018-09-26).

The Evidence Pours In: Poverty Getting Much Worse in America (2018-11-05).

• A White House report recently proclaimed that the "War on Poverty is largely over and a success." United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley said it was "ridiculous for the United Nations to examine poverty in America."
• Half of Us are In or Near Poverty.
  $1 in expenses twenty years ago is now $1.25. $1 in earnings twenty years ago is now still $1.
• Estimates of adults living from paycheck to paycheck range from half to 60 percent to 78 percent. Any sign of a recession would be devastating for most of us.
• While 1 in 7 Americans is part of the world's poorest 10%, nearly 3 in 7 Americans are part of the world's richest 10%.

Amazon Workers STRIKE In Italy, Spain, Germany & UK! (2018-11-25), time 28.
Amazon Spain was even so insolent to demand the police to control the productivity of Amazon workers during the strike.

Flint: Gov. Caught Faking Water Tests (2018-11-26).

Better and better? A comment on Hans Rosling (2019-01-16).
Time 91.

Detroit's Water CRISIS is Hidden in Plain Sight (2019-02-14).

As Infrastructure Crumbles, Trillions Of Gallons Of Water Lost (2014-10-29).
Time 255.

The infrastructural humiliation of America (2019-02-03).

HN: One-fourth of Americans drink water from systems that don’t meet standards (2019-03-11).

FBI waged counterintelligence campaign against leftists, boasts ex-top official (2019-01-19).

SHOCKER: FBI Admits Sabotaging Progressive Politicians As Policy! (2019-01-22).

Helsinki (Finland): The city with no homeless on its streets (2019-01-31).

Over 40% of US Households Are One Paycheck Away From Poverty (2019-02-02).

Judge: Providing Water to Dying Immigrants in Desert is a Crime (2019-02-02), time 134.
Lying scumbags or murderers in the police must be abolished.
Videos like this show why bad privacy must end NOW.
Every second matters.

Reddit: In 50 years, education costs have doubled, college costs have dectupled, health ins. costs have dectupled, subway costs have at least dectupled, and housing costs have increased by 50%. US health care costs 4X as much as health care in other First World countries. This is very wrong. (2019-02-05).

No government in the world guarantees the human rights in 2018.

• Quote:
  Economic, social and cultural rights
  The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights entered into force in 1976, and had 164 states parties by the end of October 2016. The human rights that the Covenant seeks to promote and protect include:
  
  • the right to work in just and favourable conditions;
  • the right to social protection, to an adequate standard of living and to the highest attainable standards of physical and mental well-being;
  • the right to education and the enjoyment of benefits of cultural freedom and scientific progress.

Immigration, World Poverty and Gumballs - NumbersUSA.com (2010-09-10).

Poverty - Numbers (2018-09-07).

World Hunger Is Rising (2018-09-11).

The Poverty Paradox: Why Most Poverty Programs Fail And How To Fix Them | Efosa Ojomo | TEDxGaborone (2017-08-14).

Why it's too hard to start a business in Africa -- and how to change it | Magatte Wade (2018-10-24).

Solving Poverty Without a Big Wallet | Davis Nguyen | TEDxUCDavisSF (2017-05-16).

Information exchange is an exponential increase of wealth and not a zero-sum game. (2018-05-25)

A Dance of Technology and Crisis | Nicholas Haan | SingularityU India Summit 2017 (2017-05-17).

Delhi’s air pollution monitors have recorded the highest levels they can measure (2018-06-18).

Fox Viewers Overwhelmingly Approve Med4All By 73% (2018-08-02).

CNN’s Jake Tapper Caught Lying About Med4All - Lies Again (2018-08-22).

How much it costs to have a baby in every state, whether you have health insurance or don't in the USA (2018-07-09).

Why the hospital of the future will be your own home | Niels van Namen (2018-10-10).

• Time 82: 64% of US americans are avoiding care due to cost.
• Time 96: Medical errors are the third cause of death behind cancer and heart disease in the USA.
  Medical errors are the 3rd leading cause of deaths in the US (2016-05-06).
• Time 118: 4 in 10 of Japanese doctors are burnt out. 5 in 10 of US doctors are burnt out. The Netherlands with 17 million people are short of 125 000 nurses over the coming years.
• Time 223: Recent research has shown that 46% of hospital care can move to the patient's home. Mainly for chronic diseases.
• Time 326: In California, a third of patients over 70 and more than half of patients over 85 leave the hospital more disabled than they came in.
• Time 389: Part of GDP spent for health care has grown. Needlessly.

Scarcity of medical experts is a political decision by needlessly restricting the number of allowed licenses for doctors and pharmacists.
Tokyo medical school admits changing results to exclude women (2018-08-08).

Surprisingly many persons and elected politicians justify and defend or at least tolerate poverty and austerity and military expenditures for destruction of wealth and health of other persons.