Capitalism creates poverty

John Bird may be apologising for “becoming more boring and repetitive”, but his latest batch of Wise (Bird’s) Words certainly suggests that he is on ‘A Big, Bold, Beautiful Journey’. (A reference to what he would be watching that week.)

John is totally correct to point out that government and many organisations are just tinkering with the issue of poverty eradication.

But I feel we should also be looking beyond the class system. The system that is failing all of us is capitalism. It was capitalism (and, before that, feudalism) that generated the inequalities inherent within the class system.

It is capitalism that perpetuates the pursuit of profit rather than providing for the needs of all of us.

What is the answer? When John writes that we need “to creat

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