The fight against poverty and absolute poverty

I am a businessman, a wholesaler. I supply retailers on a wholesale price and then they do the dirty job of going to sell piece by piece with a margin of profit. However with time I realise that the retailers to whom I am supplying the pieces are make huge profits and that they are getting richer and richer. So to maintain my superiority over those people who I am helping in a sense, I increase my price so that they reduce their profit margin as they cannot go on and on on increasing prices from their side.

If you have not understood, let me summarize......in short i need always keep them dependent on me and less powerful than me so that my business survives. I am happy that they prosper as long they do not overtake me.

Over the years i have noticed that the so-called fight for poverty alleviation is also taking this kind of direction.

Afterall poverty alleviation is a massive...........................................business!! Look at the number of NGOs, organisations, and foundations that have been set up to alleviate poverty. Many of these are using public funds directly or indirectly to alleviate poverty. All sorts of words and jargons are being utilised such as empowerment, refus de la pauvrete, etc etc

The fundamental question I would ask myself is how many of those people have left the poverty baseline, and how many of those people will be able to leave and get into lets say the lower middle class.

When we look at the way the organisations work, and the type of business they are into, one come to the logic that yes good work is being done, but there is a limit. And here I will go back to my anecdote of the first paragraph - it is not in the interest of the fight against poverty that there no longer exist poor people on earth, because then there will be no neeed to fight against it, and businesses will close and people will lose jobs. We want to preserve jobs and organisations so we need to keep having poor people.......

We should not fight against poverty, terrorism, crime, and so on.....its simply we should stop creating these.....

So, do we want to fight terrorism? poverty? crime? injustice? ..........a bon entendeur!