Saturday, January 24, 2015
Bre Kelley, Chapter 1, Question 6
There was one sentence in this chapter that stuck out the most to me. "The World Bank estimates that half of the world's population survives on less than $2 a day." There is an estimate of currently 7.125 billion people in the world and half of that is 3.56 billion people. Our school lunch costs more money than half the world population survives on a daily basis. I will never understand how we can pay professional athletes millions of dollars and still know that billions of people on earth have to rummage through trash cans to find their next meal. Is it possible to spread out the economy's spendings without following the rules of a communist central planning government?
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This sentence struck me as shocking and really surprising as well. As Americans we sometimes forget about how the rest of the world fares and that we are so blessed to have the things we do. It is important to try and remember that large parts of the world are suffering more than we are economicly speaking.
ReplyDeleteI never really thought about how our school lunch is more than the daily spendings of half the world.
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