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Requiring
basic financial capability 1) Human rights 2) Quality living standards 3) Environmental sustainability
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"While others were born with a lot of money in the bank or elsewhere, he was born with nothing, either in the bank or anywhere else. Is he only one person, an isolated case? No. 60% of the world lives below the poverty line. That’s 3.6 billion people who are suffering the same fate. The fact that escapes us is that more than 60% of the babies being born every second, minute, hour or day are born to these very people and are in all probability going to live out that very fate. If we at least begin to recognize this fact, we would suddenly feel the urgency in stopping this as quickly as possible. This catastrophe that is facing us and is continuing to face us without relent, is also the parent of many other disasters that we face today, foresee in the future and that alarm us, while we do not still see the real catastrophe causing all others. If we do see it, we would want to run for cover, so great are its implications." --- Message of the Perfect World
"Birth into basic financial capability means birth into food capability, birth into shelter capability, birth into proper sanitation capability, birth into a secure quality of air to breathe and water to drink. The creation and existence of these conditions would automatically be taken care of, if birth into basic financial capability was ensured. On the other hand, without ensuring birth into these conditions, we cannot maintain these conditions either, because then there would be nothing to maintain. Not only would here be nothing to maintain, we would have to eliminate the existing substandard living conditions, create better living standards in its place and then maintain those living standards, which is a far more inefficient and ineffective approach. If we ensure birth into basic financial capability instead, our energies would only have to be directed towards the maintaining of acceptable living standards, we would not also have to direct our energies towards the elimination of substandard living conditions or to the creation of better living standards." --- Message of the Perfect World
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M e s s a g e o f t h e P e r f e c t W o r l d ( 2 0 0 7 )
