Misery
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For once, Karl Marx, the mischievous cause of so much of Ukraine’s misery, got something right: “the point,” he said about the world, “is to change it.”
How much more preventable
misery
and death must occur before our policymakers see reason?
After all, beyond the social
misery
produced by the re-institutionalized cruelty of the current global economic system, the greatest danger facing the world nowadays is that very system’s inherent instability.
This is a baffling policy choice at a time when Germany should be using its room for fiscal maneuver and its economic clout to create and enhance the demand that peripheral Europe needs in order to grow out of its
misery.
It is among the fastest growing regions in the world, but it is also home to the largest concentration of people living in debilitating poverty, conflict, and human
misery.
A direct attack on poverty can yield a double dividend: in reducing human misery, it could spark growth, thereby creating more political space for direct poverty reduction.
The DEM would allow you to root for higher returns on your savings without wishing for human
misery.
According to Smith,“A stranger to human nature, who saw the indifference of men about the
misery
of their inferiors, and the regret and indignation which they feel for the misfortunes and sufferings of those above them, would be apt to imagine, that pain must be more agonizing, and the convulsions of death more terrible to persons of higher rank, than to those of meaner stations...”We feel this, Smith believes, because we naturally sympathize with others (if he were writing today, he would surely invoke “mirror neurons”).
If there were a threshold of
misery
that would cause the world to say, “Enough is enough,” it surely would have been crossed by now.
Aid in a World of CrisisDAVOS – Never in the 64-year history of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has it had to address so much human
misery.
The adverse weather resulting from the phenomenon – which originates in the Pacific, but affects the ocean worldwide – is expected to affect adversely over 60 million people this year, compounding the
misery
wrought last year.
But, for all the
misery
of air travel in America, when you get to your destination it can still blow your socks off.
Moreover, globalization means that the US capital market’s failure spreads
misery
around the world.
Above all, the Congo matters because of the continuing violence, wretched poverty, and
misery
of most of its nearly 70 million people.
She somehow survived, with major health complications, including permanent fistula, which will condemn her to a life of exclusion from her family and unrelieved
misery.
Though their leaders certainly have work to do – for example, building more efficient and credible institutions – the EU remains a source of inspiration for others, from the refugees fleeing war and
misery
to the Chinese, who have constructed European-style cities.
The fight to eradicate misery, illiteracy, and corruption, and Islam’s embrace of science, do not depend on the results of the Middle East peace process.
Life in a totalitarian dictatorship is a daily
misery.
We have gained personal knowledge of the unspeakable
misery
that has innocently befallen 100,000 inhabitants of Austria.”
It is deficit reduction, not debt, that is profligate, because it implies wastage of available human and physical capital, quite apart from the resulting
misery.
Migration RealismGENEVA – The scenes of death and
misery
that are occurring with increasing frequency in the waters of the Mediterranean and Southeast Asia have focused renewed attention on one of mankind’s oldest activities: migration.
“My country right or wrong” is the parent of much
misery.
We central Europeans knew the
misery
of communism.
Children across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia have been driven out of school – many for years – compounding their
misery
and jeopardizing their futures.
But he is simply grateful to be alive, and far away from the torture and
misery
he left behind in Myanmar.
For the first time in history, there exists a valid global instrument that holds up a mirror to the
misery
of this world: a universal standard with which to compare the actual state of affairs and in whose name we can act to combat injustice.
But the credibility of such demands is undermined by the Arabs’ inability to alleviate Palestinian
misery
and, no less importantly, by their failure to help the Palestinians face the hard choices they will need to make if an orderly Palestinian state is ever to emerge.
For the last few years, rather than confronting the special interests – state-protected businesses, public-sector trade unions, and lobbies – that inhibit reform, Greece has spread its economic
misery
horizontally through blanket spending cuts.
Third, prolonged
misery
and hopelessness for millions of Arab young people will create a new generation of desperate jihadists who blame the West for their despair.
Conflict and fragility, not only in Syria, but also in many other lesser-known sites of mass misery, are among the most urgent and seemingly intractable global challenges of our time.
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