According to the 2016 Taking on Inequality Report by the World Bank Group, the most recent estimates indicate that 10.7 percent of the world’s population lived on less than US$1.90 a day, compared to 12.4 percent in 2012. Whilst that number is thankfully trending downwards, (down from 35 percent in 1990), 10 percent of 7 billion is still an enormous number of people living from hand to mouth. Many of those individuals are women and children. Thankfully, there are organisations like Kiva, that have built businesses with a mission to connect people through alternative lending models as a means to alleviate poverty.
Listening to the news, and the politicians, it is easy to feel concerned about how Western cultures are going to find a way to ensure that economies continue to grow.
In 2016, a survey was conducted by women, about women in the tech industry in Silicon Valley and the results were both shocking and disappointing. But more about that in a moment.
Many of us spend a significant amount of time worrying about the scarcity of money in our lives. A large number of us have also bought into the prevailing norm that money is a scarce commodity, one that needs to be relentlessly pursued, often at any cost.
Western cultural norms often condition us to believe that doing things differently isn’t possible. The marketing and PR of large institutions with vested interests in maintaining the status quo have served to influence these perspectives.
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