bad weather and earthquake relief
The top BBC story is still the Pakistan earthquake. This time the news angle is the weather. Nobody should underestimate the weather, but in a wealthy neighborhood there are enough roads, strong houses, and farm vehicles, that even if many roads were blocked, the weather would not be a major problem. I know that I keep repeating the same old message, but it is a simple one: the real cause of the majority of deaths, is poverty.
Poverty comes because of unequal opportunities (nobody wants or needs to be poor). The solution to unequal opportunity is land rent. By ensuring fairness in land ownership we ensure fairness in everything else, plus we encourage wealth creation, plus we ensure a basic level of income for everybody.
The problem is poverty. The solution is land rent.
posted by Chris Tolworthy at 8:34 AM
2 Comments:
Good point regarding poverty. I recall a professor stating once, "earth quakes don't kill people, crumbling buildings kill people." Of course even expensive buildings will topple but the huge death tolls we see are usually in countries where the buildings tumble like a house of cards.
Yeah. I wonder if I should just have the same post every day: "whatever the problem, the real problem is poverty." People with money can usually find the best possible solution.
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