Eagle on the Street

“Theoretically it would be impossible to end poverty, we could close a gap – that’s possible, but to end poverty, that’s impossible. There will always be people who have more money than others and in that case there would be poverty. But to ease the gap, you could say that people just need to help out more. Realistically, that probably wouldn’t happen either. Truly, I think to end poverty as we see it now, the best-case scenario would be to minimize the maximum value that any one person can have. Because as soon as people realize, ‘Oh I can’t make anymore money.’ They’re going to say, ‘Ok let’s make sure that they have to give their excess money away.’ So, in that case it would be forcing people to give. Not the best case scenario, but it’s the most realistic scenario.”

Timothy Lavergne, physics, junior