Is money the answer?

so my wife just had a team in the relay for life team, a charity event where teams need to walk for 12 hrs from 7pm to 7am. each team raises money and submits an entry fee to get in and all proceeds (is there such a thing as 'ALL proceeds'??) go to cancer research.

now, i'm uncertain of the actual amount of money raised for cancer research last year but it must be in the 100s of millions of dollars and has likely been that for years and years. my question is this: is money the answer to wiping out not only cancer, but many other diseases as well? for something like malaria in zambia, i can understand -- money can purchase preventative tools. but for cancer, it just seems that there has been SO MUCH MONEY poured into it yet it still kills millions every year.

i've wondered the same thing regarding starvation in africa. so much money raised, but so few results. is the money not being used appropriately? can it really be that the BILLIONS of dollars sent to african nations simply isn't enough?

is money the answer to these types of globally threatening problems?

Yes

Yes.

I agree. Money is not getting to the places it needs to go a lot of times. I think there is a website or two out there that grades the infrastructure of charity organizations and tells you how "helpful" they are.

I would have to say that if someone gave me a billion dollars, I would have 2 billion after at least a decade. I think that instead of giving away all of this money, they should create jobs for people to actually earn money. Of course, there is nothing but corruption to be had no matter the approach and it will always be hard to get the monies where they are needed. (Case in point, Kim Jong il's nice investments into Swedish prostitutes. You'd think he would spend it on the starving people...but nooooo, he wants to spend it on his penis and bombs.)

Eventually money is the answer to just about everything.

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
Eventually money is the answer to just about everything.

Paul, John, George and Ringo said, money can't buy you love.

Originally posted by leonidas
so my wife just had a team in the relay for life team, a charity event where teams need to walk for 12 hrs from 7pm to 7am. each team raises money and submits an entry fee to get in and all proceeds (is there such a thing as 'ALL proceeds'??) go to cancer research.

now, i'm uncertain of the actual amount of money raised for cancer research last year but it must be in the 100s of millions of dollars and has likely been that for years and years. my question is this: is money the answer to wiping out not only cancer, but many other diseases as well? for something like malaria in zambia, i can understand -- money can purchase preventative tools. but for cancer, it just seems that there has been SO MUCH MONEY poured into it yet it still kills millions every year.

i've wondered the same thing regarding starvation in africa. so much money raised, but so few results. is the money not being used appropriately? can it really be that the BILLIONS of dollars sent to african nations simply isn't enough?

is money the answer to these types of globally threatening problems?

In short yes,

more money would solve the problem, better spending of money would certainly help in places like Africa as well. Don't know about cancer research, but I can imagine money could be spend more effectively there as well.

Still more money can never hurt.

Money can always help to make things a little easier.

I hate money. Corruption and crap, thats all. Much better systems could have been made, but once we got hooked on monetary system, we couldnt get away from it. Been thousands of years.

What...? Did you hear something? Not at all.

Originally posted by Grinning Goku
Money can always help to make things a little easier.

So... if you're plummeting to your death from a 15k foot free-fall, a few thousand extra dollars in your pocket will "make things a little easier"?

Originally posted by Robtard
So... if you're plummeting to your death from a 15k foot free-fall, a few thousand extra dollars in your pocket will "make things a little easier"?

No but a few million dollar bills to help soften your fall certainly will.

Originally posted by The Black Ghost
I hate money. Corruption and crap, thats all. Much better systems could have been made, but once we got hooked on monetary system, we couldnt get away from it. Been thousands of years.

What...? Did you hear something? Not at all.

Without things like money the world just wouldn't work, we wouldn't be able to build or whatever. Trading goods directly for other goods would have stopped progress completely, a communistic system where everybody works and nobody gains or loses anything won't work either because well communism just doesn't work.

For all it's downsides money certainly helps the world.

Originally posted by The Black Ghost
I hate money. Corruption and crap, thats all. Much better systems could have been made, but once we got hooked on monetary system, we couldnt get away from it. Been thousands of years.

What...? Did you hear something? Not at all.

Like what? The barter system? Who wants to haul around a flock of sheep to trade for a 42" plasma televison? Not I.

I thought I heard the faint whisper of a fart.

Originally posted by Fishy
No but a few million dollar bills to help soften your fall certainly will.

...inertia will still splatter you all over those millions.

Originally posted by Robtard
So... if you're plummeting to your death from a 15k foot free-fall, a few thousand extra dollars in your pocket will "make things a little easier"?

Stop being a dick. 🙂

Originally posted by Grinning Goku
Stop being a dick. 🙂

I have yet to begin my dickery.

P.S. Your "camel toe" avatar is sweet.

Originally posted by leonidas
so my wife just had a team in the relay for life team, a charity event where teams need to walk for 12 hrs from 7pm to 7am. each team raises money and submits an entry fee to get in and all proceeds (is there such a thing as 'ALL proceeds'??) go to cancer research.

now, i'm uncertain of the actual amount of money raised for cancer research last year but it must be in the 100s of millions of dollars and has likely been that for years and years. my question is this: is money the answer to wiping out not only cancer, but many other diseases as well? for something like malaria in zambia, i can understand -- money can purchase preventative tools. but for cancer, it just seems that there has been SO MUCH MONEY poured into it yet it still kills millions every year.

i've wondered the same thing regarding starvation in africa. so much money raised, but so few results. is the money not being used appropriately? can it really be that the BILLIONS of dollars sent to african nations simply isn't enough?

is money the answer to these types of globally threatening problems?

The more money there is, the more that's left over for cancer research, after everyone else is paid.

Originally posted by Robtard
Paul, John, George and Ringo said, money can't buy you love.

Money can buy you all the things that make people love you.

or you can just pay them to "make love with you" its a win win thing when it comes to money

so, what's the problem then? according to nearly everyone that posted so far, all we need to do is keep pumping money into these things and everything will be fine. so we what, just keep giving and eventually it is garanteed that these problems will go away?

billions and billions have ALREADY been given to such cause with . . . less than ideal results. i'm not offering any alternatives, but it just seems there must be a BETTER way to deal with these things. i know money is important, but, so far at least, it seems to NOT be the answer. 😬

Originally posted by leonidas
so, what's the problem then? according to nearly everyone that posted so far, all we need to do is keep pumping money into these things and everything will be fine. so we what, just keep giving and eventually it is garanteed that these problems will go away?

billions and billions have ALREADY been given to such cause with . . . less than ideal results. i'm not offering any alternatives, but it just seems there must be a BETTER way to deal with these things. i know money is important, but, so far at least, it seems to NOT be the answer. 😬

Well there certainly is a better way with Africa.

Problem is we like how Africa is doing, if we really wanted to help we (especially the EU) would open their borders and stop giving tax cuts and discounts to European farmers. This would heavily increase the amount of money in Africa and thus the entire continent.

Problem is, it would cost us money. Directly not just something we could spare but perhaps a lot more and jobs and what not and nobody is willing to sacrifice that. Not to mention that the money that is send goes to governments primarily, making us depend on them to the job when clearly they do not. They spend money on everything but never enough on one thing. The only thing that we could do to help the situation is to open the borders of the EU for trade and spend money in programs we decide and we run with locals.

Without political meaning to it, because politics in the end is what keeps them poor and us rich. A huge downside however would be that we would weaken ourselves to strengthen them. Not really a smart thing to do.

On matters of cancer I have no clue. I don't know anything about the research.