Some estimates are as high a billion people in the world living in poverty, most without
electricity or clean water, let alone enough to eat.
And the majority of that number are women and children.
For many wanting to help, the crisis is so overwhelming, they don't where to begin.
Should food be the priority, housing, healthcare, education, the list of symptoms is sizable.
But what if there was a way to solve the crisis as a whole instead of piecemeal?
Allow me to present to you what I call "The Earthing Duty." If an
infinitesimally small percentage of income was garnished from every working earthling
on the planet and went to a globally monitored and managed non-profit financial organization
they could then distribute the money to the poorest places on the planet in the form of
contracts to other non-profit organizations with verifiable records of action. These
non-profits would get one year to statistically prove success with the money distribution
before being renewed for another year.
Now naysayers will surely ask, "Isn't this a global tax?"
I suggest not using the word "tax" because it's been stigmatized in modern society.
I suggest calling it a "duty" instead.
Although one definition of "duty" is a form of governmental tax, it's primary definition
is one of moral obligation.
And here's why people won't even think twice about it...
Because we're not talking about 1% of a person's yearly income, not even 0.1%, and not even 0.01%.
We're talking about one one-thousandth of 1% (0.001%) of a person's yearly income!
For example, the median income in America is around $50,000 a year.
To a person making that much only 50 cents is taken out of their paychecks.
We're talking total for the year!
Most people lose more than that in their couch cushions.
For someone who makes a million dollars a year would only have $10 collected.
For a millionaire, that's less than they pay for a single cocktail.
But in the aggregate, it would generate billions of dollars annually to fight poverty!
Any countries not willing to participate in the effort would simply not be included in
the distribution.
The organization would use globally collected data to simultaneously target all poor regions
in the world each year, including poor regions in the United States at same time it combats
global poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa.
We're all are part of a global village, and all life is precious.
If we can make even the smallest gesture to help our fellow Earthlings, it should be our duty.
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