I think the idea is to guarantee the third generation rights - those are basic rights to food, shelter, health,education and clothing. Under the current model - many countries have - guaranteed health and education - but despite the enormous wealth - we still have people starving to death or skipping meals or folks who don't have roof or clothing - about 2 billions living in abject poverty like wild animals.
Very noble sentiments, indeed. And we already have these rights enshrined in the UN Human Charter on Human rights, which most countries have agreed to. But it is wishful thinking to believe that rich countries are (or would be) agreeable to spreading wealth around, no matter how many billions live "in abject poverty like wild animals". In fact, the title of this thread is about people in rich countries who think (partly wrongly) that their jobs and money have (supposedly unfairly) gone to poorer countries. They want them back, and they want to stop further movement. You won't here anyone saying, "
Look those people need them more than we do, because they are poorer and we must work towards eradicating or reducing global poverty. Let's spread the wealth around.".
We've determined that with 2usd per day per person we can lift people out of poverty. We've tried to get people out of poverty through many complicated ways that we think would be sustainable. Evidence has shown how incredibly difficult these many complicated ways can move them from poverty. We have never thought what would happen - if we m-pesad people the 2 usd per day - that would automatically move everyone beyond the poverty line. You wake up and you've enough to buy food, clothes and housing for that day.
What are the many complicated ways and how are extremely difficult? We know a sure-fire way to move masses out of poverty: make sure they have decent-paying jobs. How many people has China moved out of poverty in the last 25 years? How has it been done?
And take our country as an example. What exactly has been tried to lift the masses out of poverty? What appropriate government policies do we currently have in place for that and how are they being implemented to do what is required? It's not about complicated and incredibly difficult ways.
Except for those who are infirm---because of old age etc.---anyone who wants to be in a position where "
you wake up and you've enough to buy food, clothes and housing for that day", should do one thing: go out there, put in a good slog, and make sure you get paid enough---before going to bed. An old and well-known method, with a very high success rate.
My calculation shows we need just 51 trillion usd to gurantee everyone 2ud per day in the whole planet earth and make poverty history. This is the base salary for everyone. Whatever extra you'll make we'd know you aint dying from hunger without it.
That amount already exists. But, as I have noted above, those who hold it won't be parting with it any time soon. They might occasionally dole out little bits---such as now when we have declared a hunger emergency and set out pleas to the "international community"---but that's about it.
In any case, what kind of of life does one really get for US$2 per day (Sh. 6000 per month), even in a place like Kenya?
We as human being would then have transcended other animals.
That is highly debatable.
First, we are still greatly driven by the same primitive needs: sex, food, etc. All that our "advances" mean is that we have the leisure time to devise kinkier and more varied forms of sex, we get to eat food prepared in fancier ways, etc.; but that's all, and we still devote a great deal of energy in the pursuit of those things in their "new-and-improved" forms.
Second, from the point of view of other animals, we have completely gone down; these days, humans will even kill other animals just for fun! Our "advances" have made life hell for other species on Planet Earth, and there is the real danger that we'll completely destroy the place. (We are already doing "well" with things like global warming.) Perhaps robots should be promoted on the grounds that they might be able to run the place a bit better than we have done so far.
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