Micro Finance  (video)

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Basic to charity is the ability to be charitable. Ones ability to be charitable depends on two factors one is economic and the other is willingness. I believe that our moral education gives us the willingness and our general education gives the ability to have the time and money to be charitable.      

They say, all suffering is desire and all desire is suffering.

Yet it is my opinion that at the basis of all suffering there is ignorance. For if we knew better we would have learned to desire less or at the very least how to obtain what we desire. 

Improve education and you improve living conditions.

Poverty is the absence of not only capital, but also education and community.

Knowledge is costly, educating children into adulthood is something that requires planning, income and savings. It requires well endowed schools, and an economic system willing and able to fund them.   

It is possible to understand and believe that the only true thing worth while is to lift another from despair. To understand this and believe this as a society is possible, thereby making it a political agenda. To make charity as stylish as a new car, would make it possible to direct the efforts of a society to the care of the less fortunate rather than individual gain.

I have some experience with style, I am a tailor. I believe charity can be as stylish as Prada and marketed in the same manner.

To build a community such as this you first need to have economic security, I would say its works even best if you have excessive economic success.

If charity is the main purpose of a society, then you would need to seek out the areas of greatest need. You would first secure a good economic platform then go to where there is suffering and ignorance and get to work.

Accepting that underdeveloped areas in the world generally have greater suffering, it would be best to reach out to those areas of greatest disparity in order to achieve an social equilibrium. It would therefore be best to have an international business model to this community so that it can operate effectively in these areas of greatest need.   

The phrase “bottom of the pyramid” was used by U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt in his April 7, 1932 radio address, The Forgotten Man, in which he said “These unhappy times call for the building of plans that rest upon the forgotten, the unorganized but the indispensable units of economic power...that build from the bottom up and not from the top down, that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.”