Are wealthy countries in anyway responsible to lift poor countries out of poverty?

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Hereiam said:
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KMC:
Not sure what you mean, please be more specific. Thanks!
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Picture your hands extended, and God places his blessings into your hands…When your hands are full, no more can be added…however, if you gift your blessings to someone in need, what leaves your hands allows more room for further blessings from God.

This makes assisting those in need a personal act rather than an act relegated to the government.
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I agree that its important for people to be charitable, and not depend on the government to do it. Which is one of the reasons why I advocate for the government to stop being a road block to the economy we have, so that people can maintain jobs, which enables a sustainable way helping the poor.
 
Wrong.

The IQ test consists of a number of tasks measuring various measures of intelligence including short-term memory, analytical thinking, mathematical ability and spatial recognition. Like all IQ tests it does not attempt to measure the amount of information you have learned but rather your capacity to learn.

Culture is irrelevant in regards to IQ
 
Why is it wrong?
I can understand in some cases when people run their own businesses but what does,for example a CEO of a charity do to earn $250,000 + a year?
Or even worse,we have here Telstra executives earning in the millions.

At least one ex CEO of Telstra did have the moral fiber to admit that his salary was indefensible.
I’m a bit cynical because he said it on the last day of his employment at the company though🙄.

And we had another “great one”, Ahmed Fahour,ex CEO of Australian Post.

“In 2014 Fahour was widely criticised for his $4.8 million salary, whilst sacking 900 staff…”

https://www.smh.com.au/business/i-c...telstra-ceo-david-thodey-20150430-1mwtby.html
 
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KMC said:
I’m not sure how old you are but in 1991 the US enacted a luxury tax on yachts, furs, expensive watches, expensive cars, etc. It was supposed to generate $9B in additional revenue. According to the attached, its first year it brought in $97M, and yacht retailers saw 77% drop in sales and boat manufacturers laid off 25,000 people. Now, who are those 25,000 people that lost their jobs?
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Did the worldwide sale of yachts drop by 77%?
Did rich Americans stop buying yachts?
Or did they just shop elsewhere?
If they shopped elsewhere in the world, then other countries would be employing more people.
 
Rozellelily said:
I can understand in some cases when people run their own businesses but what does,for example a CEO of a charity do to earn $250,000 + a year?
Or even worse,we have here Telstra executives earning in the millions.
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Could you run a huge charity? What experience do you have managing millions of dollars worth of money, supplies and managing a large number of staff? What organizational experience do you offer?

If someone out there is really good at all those things, how do you entice that person to come bring those skills to the charity, and not take another job other than by offering a good salary competitive with other offers?
 
All of us have an obligation to do what we can to help those in need. Full stop.
 
Eric_Hyom said:
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KMC:
I’m not sure how old you are but in 1991 the US enacted a luxury tax on yachts, furs, expensive watches, expensive cars, etc. It was supposed to generate $9B in additional revenue. According to the attached, its first year it brought in $97M, and yacht retailers saw 77% drop in sales and boat manufacturers laid off 25,000 people. Now, who are those 25,000 people that lost their jobs?
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Did the worldwide sale of yachts drop by 77%?
Did rich Americans stop buying yachts?
Or did they just shop elsewhere?
If they shopped elsewhere in the world, then other countries would be employing more people.
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Again, you’re making up stuff to fit your narrative. Facts please.
 
JanSobieskiIII said:
If someone out there is really good at all those things, how do you entice that person to come bring those skills to the charity, and not take another job other than by offering a good salary competitive with other offers?
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I voluntarily helped raise about thirty thousand pounds for a Christian charity over a number of years. I stopped when I heard the ceo was on a £125k, I was shocked and saddened. The money we had raised paid for about three months salary for him.

We raised the money without taking any expenses at all, in commercial terms, I could have been justified taking 10%.
 
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Eric_Hyom said:
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JanSobieskiIII:
If someone out there is really good at all those things, how do you entice that person to come bring those skills to the charity, and not take another job other than by offering a good salary competitive with other offers?
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I helped raise about thirty thousand pounds for a Christian charity over a number of years. I stopped when I heard the ceo was on a £125k, I was shocked and saddened. The money we had raised paid for about three months salary for him.
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You didn’t answer JanSobieskilll’s question. I’d be interested in your answer.
 
30k is nothing compared to the advantages a good CEO can bring. A chief executive makes or breaks an entity.
 
The thing is, the CEO gets paid the big money whether they are good or not.

Even if you have the best CEO, the ordinary working folk are the people that make the company run. No matter how good or bad the CEO is, the company ultimately depends on the workers and the product. You can have a complete fool as CEO, but if the company is solid, the workers do a good job and it’s products or services are worth the money, then the CEO’s incompetence is irrelevant.
 
That’s completely false. How many businesses have you ran?
 
KMC said:
You didn’t answer JanSobieskilll’s question. I’d be interested in your answer
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I coordinated the charity in our town, and helped to raise £30,000. In commercial terms, I could have been justified by claiming 10%. None of us claimed a single penny, our passion was for the people we thought we were helping.

Now when I do anything or give to a charity, I look up the directors pay.
 
Came in expecting to see the Communists all over this thread, and sure 'nuff 🤣
 
Still not answering the question.

How do you entice a highly qualified ceo to come work full time for a charity and not another company other than through financial incentive when that potential ceo has a family to provide for?
 
I cited the things tested for on IQ tests. Show some evidence to support your claim.
 
I have never run a business. I don’t even want to, really.

Many deficient employers and bosses succeed despite their faults. Sometimes, their employees make up for their faults and the company/enterprise keeps on going. It happens all the time.
 
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JanSobieskiIII said:
I cited the things tested for on IQ tests. Show some evidence to support your claim.
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You showed a shallow opinion, not data from social sciences…opinion is fine, but dont contend it to be objective fact…this is a social media website, not a university classroom
 
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