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CMV: Poverty can not be completely eliminated

Basically the title. Mathematically, based on current GDP, we cannot eradicate poverty. IN FACT, even if we evenly distributed all the wealth today in the world, each person would have about $11,224 in wealth. Yes, on average everyone from 65 countries would be better off. But, everyone from the other 130 countries would be worse off, on average. So, you cannot, mathematically eradicate poverty by wealth re-distribution alone. This eliminates many, many options like wage increases, taxation of the rich to distribute to the less fortunate, and so forth.

I would submit that the best thing we can do is:

1. make sure everyone has access to affordable (or free) healthcare
2. make sure everyone has access to clean sanitation
3. make sure everyone has access to affordable housing
4. make sure everyone has equal access to quality education
5. make sure everyone has equal access to entrepreneurship

This will greatly increase the quality of life for those in poverty, but those alone won't eliminate poverty.

I submit that the world doesn't have the economic output to pull everyone out of poverty, and I see no reason to believe that will change anytime soon, if ever.

Edit: by poverty, I mean "the state of being extremely poor". I know some people define poverty as "lacking the standards or resources to maintain a minimum standard of living". I am not using that definition and here's why: I used to live in Costa Rica where bullet points 1-4 are fairly well covered. They have universal healthcare, plumbing and clean water, housing is affordable, and state-sponsored education through high school. I'm less versed on point number 5 in Costa Rica. But, regardless, even with points 1-4 covered there is still abject poverty in terms of income and the *quality* of the healthcare, education, and housing that is affordable/universal. So, I guess my definition of poverty goes beyond just the basics outlined in points 1-5.
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Things you listed are pretty much what people mean by eliminating poverty. It's not about erasing inequalities but about making sure people have what they need to survive.

Wealth redistribution isn't about giving everyone the same ammount of money. It's about saying "As long as there's that many people starving, having other people being that obnoxiously rich isn't the thing to do."

We use "poverty" as a shortcut for all the things you listed that are generally unafordable due to poverty.