Comment on On Walmart, And Who Bears Responsibility For the Poor

Tue, 26 Nov 2013 21:06:17 GMT

From my Wikipedia research, there were 923 million undernourished people in the world in 2008... where undernourishment is (roughly) a cumulative or average situation where the average person is not consuming enough nutrients to remain in good health while performing light physical activity.

Of course, I can dream up a "worse" situation. (Like they are malnourished and in a deep hole.) But I think that is beside the point. You have ~12-15% of the global population that is progressively dying via malnutrition. Any way which you define "wealth" in which these people 923 million people have non-zero wealth values is fine. I guess I'd technically agree. But practically, these people seem to have maxed out the possibilities of "worst", short of being in a deep hole. Or being in a natural disaster.

My view of wealth has something to do with abundance beyond the minimum requirements for living. If I have a ham sandwich, it's just hard for me to count that as wealth. And I guess a hungry guy with one ham sandwich could be doing worse in your view, correct?

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