Solutions to World-Wide Poverty?

[Cavernio]

Vendetta: Ever study the social effects of the industrial revolution? Suicide rates soared, at least in England. And yet job prospects of working in a factory within countries undergoing industrialization were what drew people to live in ****-holes of cities. My own romantic view of the past, perhaps, but I've learned facts to back this up. But again, I don't even need this. People like nature. People vacation in the wilderness, along beaches, and take pictures of sunsets because they like them and are drawn to them. Oh, there's also the suspiciousness of current staggering rates of depression in the developed world too. Don't get me wrong though, I'm no luddite. I wouldn't be sitting here, talking on the internet from my home computer if I were. I do imagine how nice it'd be to be able to own a small farm and actually make enough money to not live in poverty. That's the extent of it.

When I've written my posts, I've generally been thinking of poverty within North America, and I doubt that you can say that our lifestyle has been fully embraced by everyone. And what I was trying to say is that rich people DO force certain life choices on those who aren't rich enough to resist, and make other choices an impossibility. You laugh that no one forces jungle-faring tribes to work in factories only because the possibility to have such a lifestyle in North America is so far gone you failed to even think (probably) about it.

I understand that generally people will plop down jobs where they're wanted, but that in no way fixes or helps poverty when those are dead-end jobs.