The World's Most Expensive Cars And Economic Justice

It has been said that if you need to ask the price, you probably can't afford it! The cars previewed in the blog "Billionaire News" are most definitely in the bracket of those I can't afford! It would be interesting to work out what percentage of the world's population could afford such luxury vehicles.

As much as I do not begrudge those who can afford these expressions of opulence, there is something obscene about spending close to $2 000 000 on a car when millions around the world still have to walk for kilometres to fetch clean water. The economic injustices of the world are brought into sharp focus when you begin to get your head around just how much money is being spent on these vehicles. Read the blog post here.

Martin Luther King Jr said,

"The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.I am not naive enough to think that by not buying expensive cars we are going to alleviate poverty but I write this post in the hope that it will bring into focus the huge gap between the rich and the poor. "

The reality is that even if we own a very ordinary family car, we find ourselves in the top economic bracket of the world. I guess the question is "What am I doing to make a difference in the world? How am I going to be part of the solution?"

For more on this go to the One Campaign site here.