Are We Living In A Strange World

[emmie]

where a painting recently went for 400 million i think it was, whilst there are people going hungry around the globe, eeking out a living on a few dollars a day if they are lucky. I do despair at times i really do.
what gets you going.

[emmie]

at least this is going to do some good.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-africa-42229105/the-peace-diamond-of-sierra-leone

[albaqwerty]

hope it really does some good and goes to where it's needed.

The price of that painting was obscene, wonder if it was just one buyer or a group of them with more money than sense.

[emmie]

don't know, but it was obscene, that money could do so much good.

[ToraToraTora]

worlds gone mad, I only paid 50million for my last work of art!

[emmie]

i was being serious for a change.

[emmie]

killing the planet with our throw away societies. plastic polluting our land and seas, killing off much needed wild life,
why can't we stop this at least, it can be done, if only we cared a bit more.

[Mamyalynne]

There has always been 'haves' and 'have nots', that will never change - the person/s who pay huge sums for works of arts may also spend a considerable amount on philanthropic causes, so I'd never say their spending was obscene.

I hope the 'Peace Diamond' fulfils the hopes it has raised.

[emmie]

mamy
so do i,

[albaqwerty]

Emmie, the older alba was having a 'deep' moment the other morning, concerned about the economics of the world this decade.
Told him about the 60's, jfk and Cuba crisis then 3 day working week, then miners strike, he said each decade seems to have had its own trials and tribulations and nothing seems to have be learned.

Poor lad, he should be content, if not happy, he's 25. Too young to be worrying.

[emmie]

at 25 id been at work nearly ten years, and lived through some of those changes, why haven't we learned how to manage better, to manage ourselves better, we just plod along in our own little world as though it will always be like it. But change for the good can come along, a helping hand when you most need it. But the bad stuff still happens, Syria, Isis, most of Africa, all big problems with no solution.

[albaqwerty]

easier said than done, Emmie, but try not to get too sad.
There will always be good people who will try to do their best for others x

[Gromit]

Donald Trump has just passed a tax cut for the most waelthy Americans that will add $1 Billion to the US deficit. Instead of giving that money away to Warren Buffett and Michael Bloomberg, they could feed the poor.

Just saying.

[emmie]

gromit
there is that, wonder why they don't.

[Old_Geezer]

The way it works is whoever sold the ridiculously priced item still has the money, it hasn't gone, it has merely changed ownership and the new owner can still use it to do good. But when it comes to helping the poor, the rich could distribute their wealth equally to all, and all that happens is that everyone is poor; plus given a short while the rich will have the skill to attract the world's wealth from the poor to themselves again anyway, so it will be to no avail. At least that's how I understand the arguments.

[youngmafbog]

The painting is simply an investment vehicle.

People are going hungry around the world because the World is over populated and there are too many wars. The 'rich' of the West (ignoring the East - China probably has more) and do little about that.

[Tilly2]

We can only do our own little bit to help. Do something small, in your own way.