Originally Posted by
Mobile 155
By realizing the slums exist we have moved closer to a meeting of the minds. Because they exist and they are full of people suggestions that consumers in California consuming less and making less money or living more densely will have a positive effect in their lifetime is hard to swallow
Again, I'm not sure who has claimed that direct connection. Of course they are indirectly connected through a complex web of multiple threads. For example someone in California could choose between buying a Hummer and giving less to charity or buying a Fiesta and giving more to charity. The money the US government spent to bail out auto companies on a few occasions could have gone to foreign aid..Some of the poverty and corruption in African states might be partly due to Western and probably Chinese too, corporations bribing officials to get cheap access to resources, like the rare earth minerals used in modern electronics including in cars, etc. The officials get rich and get to stay in power and we get affordable cars and cell phones and some Kenyans get to live in Kibera. So in our small way each of us might contribute knowingly or unknowingly to poverty elsewhere.
Originally Posted by
Mobile 155
One of the great things about the west is the people that are willing to work hard to earn enough to help people that have nothing.."
I'm sure some of those people work pretty hard just to survive.
PS Wikipedia says there is bus service, and the other popular choice is carjacking.