End Hunger, Poverty, and War through Economic Innovation

[Misaki]

Target: Educated workers, business and community leaders in the United States
Sponsored by: Occupy Wall Street

The reason these problems exist is simple: we are socially rewarded for working long hours because it lets us say we are already helping other people and there is nothing more we can do.

This helps people we know, but hurts people we don't know since most of the problems of the world are due to a lack of money, which usually comes from paid work. We can change the social incentives to work more by affirming that we don't have any problems and don't need any help.

For some businesses that have salaried employees work overtime to avoid hiring temporary workers, it would help when unequal work is done by coworkers to compensate at maybe 70% of the normal rate when someone works extra time.

When unemployment decreases this way, wages go up but there is no inflation because people still look at prices.

This gives jobs to people in poor countries as well by increasing demand for cheap products. No starvation in Africa. No need for military spending or wars as a jobs program.

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[editec]

I read it twice.

I vaguely sense that you are proposing that we reduce the work week to force employers to hire more people rather than forcing their existing workers to work overtime.


If I got it wrong, well...I tried to figure out what your were driving at and that's as close as I could come.

 

[Misaki]

Thank you for replying. It has been revised... though it's now more than 1000 characters so people need to click the "more" button to read it all.

It now says this:

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By supporting this petition, you can tell your friends that you want to help the Third World by giving those people jobs and knowledge, even if it increases the cost of gasoline through higher demand.

We can do this by working less. Too much work is one of the most common regrets, yet the top 20% of households don't even spend a third of their income.

To fairly compensate for higher productivity when working less, businesses can give a higher wage rate when people do so on the condition they will work more when necessary. Example, 1.2x for the first 24 hours/week, 0.7x after that.

When unemployment decreases this way, wages go up but there is no inflation because people still look at prices. The money is just taken from the profits of luxury goods sellers like Louis Vuitton, the financial market, and even Apple.

This gives jobs to people in poor countries by increasing the demand for cheap products, especially if their wealthy people also stop buying foreign luxury goods.

No starvation in Africa.

No more consumption for the sake of consumption.

No need for military spending or wars as a jobs program.

Tell your friends you want a better world for everyone, even people you don't know!

 

[whitehall]

Hmmm, unequal work done by co-workers would would end war through economic innovation. The sad truth is that we have raised a Nation of idiots, with the union based education system, who feel real good about themselves and think that they can can do it better. God help us.

 

[Misaki]

Hmmm, unequal work done by co-workers would would end war through economic innovation. The sad truth is that we have raised a Nation of idiots, with the union based education system, who feel real good about themselves and think that they can can do it better. God help us.

Everyone thinks the same way you do. Psych Your Mind: Don't be a sheep...or a donkey or an elephant

They think everyone else is an idiot for following their leaders without question, without realizing they are doing it themselves.

 

[waltky]

Slight drop in global hunger from one in seven to one in eight...

Number of hungry drop to one in eight people
Wed, Oct 02, 2013 - MILLENNIUM GOAL: An FAO report says 62 countries have reached the target of halving the proportion of hungry citizens, but differences remain across regions

The number of world hungry has dropped to one in eight people, making the goal of halving hunger by 2015 possible despite continued problems in sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia, the UN food agency said yesterday. At the global level, 842 million people — 12 percent of the world’s population — did not have enough food for an active and healthy life, down from 868 million for the period 2010 to last year. The Rome-based Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) said it now appeared possible to attain the UN Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of halving world hunger from its 1990 level by 2015. A FAO report said the main reasons were higher economic growth in developing countries, an increase in farm productivity rates and more private and public investments in agriculture.

It also said that remittances from emigrants, which have risen to three times higher than development aid globally, were helping improve diets in countries like Bangladesh and Tajikistan. “With a final push in the next couple of years, we can still reach the MDG target,” FAO director Jose Grazing da Silva said, along with the heads of the UN rural poverty and UN food aid agencies. “Policies aimed at enhancing agricultural productivity and increasing food availability, especially when smallholders are targeted, can achieve hunger reduction even where poverty is widespread,” they said in the report. The report said 62 countries have already reached the target of halving the proportion of hunger. Despite overall progress, marked differences across regions persist, the report said. “Africa remains the region with the highest prevalence of undernourishment, with more than one in five people estimated to be undernourished,” it found.

Sub-Saharan Africa is currently performing the worst on the hunger scale, though there has been some improvement over the last two decades, with hunger declining from 32.7 percent to 24.8 percent. In terms of numbers rather than percentages, Southern Asia had the highest number of undernourished people — 295 million — followed by sub-Saharan Africa with 223 million and Eastern Asia with 167 million, the report said. Progress in Northern Africa, which has been impacted by the economic fall-out from the Arab Spring revolutions, has been slow. Western Asia meanwhile showed no progress in tackling undernourishment: While there are fewer people going hungry here than in other parts of the region, the level of undernourishment has risen steadily since the 1990 to 1992 period.

The FAO said there had, however, been significant reductions in the estimated number of people going hungry in Latin America and Eastern Asia. The most rapid progress was recorded in fast-growing economies of Southeastern Asia, where since 1990 the proportion of hungry people has dropped from 31.1 percent to 10.7 percent. “Those that have experienced conflict during the past two decades are more likely to have seen significant setbacks in reducing hunger,” FAO said. “Landlocked countries face persistent challenges in accessing world markets, while countries with poor infrastructure and weak institutions face additional constraints,” it added. As a whole, FAO said the total number of undernourished in developing countries had fallen since 1990 to 1992 by 17 percentage points from 995.5 million to the current level of 826.6 million.

Number of hungry drop to one in eight people - Taipei Times