We need food, water, and other basic living requirements to survive. Conditions can be harsh if even one of the essential living requirements is missing. In fact, we live in an increasingly poverty-stricken world, and people in many parts of the world are not meeting the basic requirements for life. They are depending on oversea aid organizations to help them get their needs. Peter Singer says that the prosperous people need to donate all their money that they spend on “luxuries” to oversea aid organizations, such as Oxfam America or UNICEF, so the poor people can live a better life. I agree that donating will certainly help out the poor, but I do not think that Singer’s approach to solving world poverty will work effectively.
Singer’s method…show more content… Singer discourages people from buying “luxuries”, which are the non-necessities of life. In other words, Singer wants people to buy food, clothing, and any other items that could help a person sustain life. However, in the twenty-first century, our lives do not just rely on the basic needs of life. Our nation’s economy runs on electricity, fuel energy, and various technologies to function. For example, transportation vehicles, which runs on fuel, transports goods to the market. Without the people that invests in the transportation companies, then the company’s founders will have trouble gathering funds to start their business. So when transportation technologies are not improved, goods will be shipped slowly, and food could spoil before it reaches the…show more content… Before I propose my alternative solution, I must mention that poverty occurs throughout history. Few examples of mass poverty in history are the eras of Industrial Revolution and the Great Depression. Maybe there are some time periods in history where poverty did not exist in a nation, but that condition happened rarely. The problem of poverty is that it can hardly be solved or eliminated. Some people, such as John D. Rockefeller, have donated millions of dollars to charities; the U.S. government also approved anti-poverty programs, such as Medicaid. Even with the help of those contributions, poverty is still a problem
