The cost in human lives and dreams.

Almost half the world , over 3 billion people , live on less than $2.50 a day.Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names.Less than one per cent of what the world spends every year on weapons is enough  to put every child into school. 1 billion children live in poverty,half of them don't even have adequate shelter. Remember that someone always pays for others wealth, these people are the ones unlucky enough to be the ones suffering for our extragavance and wealth. All the people in developed countries like the U.S are wealthy because there are so many poor. They live a hard life, starting as a kid, the time when they should be playing and having fun, they spend it making shoes, clothes, and toys they themselves lack , they spend it raking through landfills and  garbage dumps scavenging for usable items and for food, many never get the chance to play, they don't even know what to play and have fun means, seeing how stoic and mature they are  is the ideal I aspire to. Its saddening to think of all the billions of people who had to live in such a way just so we could have an ipod, or some other stupid crap we don't really need. All the dreams I have broken indirectly by purchasing  such things, all the unheard cries of the millions of people who slowly starve to death, the mothers who cry in desperate and hopeless anguish at their dying child, the father who cannot maintain his family.  At least 45 children have died since you read this page(22,000 die every day).
 

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