A birthday club for children who don't get parties

[nobodyspecial]

16. Either you have a hard time articulating your position or I'm just not following you.,

From your post: "there is a reason we can't have both if money & time are tied up in 1) and few people are doing 2).
and when the media highlights 1) and ignores or demonizes 2)."

The poor are not being ignored or demonized in this story, as you admit. So, what is your point? It seems contradictory.

I can easily tell you why you see these types of stories appear in papers more than long treatises on the root causes of poverty. On e is space. You can tell this story in about 8 column inches. The other would require an entire pullout section. Editors also consider what the audience wants. This is a simple story that makes people feel good. Very few readers can understand or want to read about poverty, socioeconomic theories or alternative economic systems. If they do, they will be reading books, not relying on the newspaper.


"no, charity will not lead to any ends but more charity."
Charity leads to the very specific ends of making a person or a family's life better. And, you have no idea how that will ripple forward in society. Your idea seems to be to let people suffer until we change society.

"the history of charity goes back to rome. it ameliorates & thus supports the status quo."
And that statement proves what a very, very long wait these kids will have to enjoy a birthday party. If we have not come up with a system that eliminates the need for charity in hundreds of centuries, what makes you think anything is on the horizon? What solution do you have? What should people be doing?

I would be very angry and agitated all of the time living in a world of could have been's and should be's.