Poverty Will Kill You Too

I'm not a fan of fear porn. As the alt-media grew in the mid 2000's, I spent a couple of years reading about economic collapse scenarios and watched youtube videos about the vicous plans of the elite to cull humanity. However, I came to the conclusion that the biggest enemy of man is man. It is unfortunate that we participate in systems where a few psychopaths can exploit millions, but if we did manage to eliminate that scourge we'd have countless other issues to contend with.

Poverty is one major problem. Lots of people in the world live in absolute squalor on the periphery of developed areas. Cheerleaders of western civilization often see poverty as a genetic problem--for example they offer up population IQ tests that show those poor people are no good. Critics of western civilization tend to see poverty as a result of exploitation.My take is poor people are "poor" mainly because they lack methods of organizing their people to create an order that leads to the type of wealth that causes clean streets and clean water.

Dirty conditions are a reliable breeding ground for new diseases. The good hearted people who attempt to help alleviate poverty by providing medical care could actually be helping to create the "perfect storm" scenario. By providing inadequate treatment of diseases with antibiotics in really terrible living conditions, health care workers could actually be breeding antibiotic resistant bacteria.