No Poverty: Difference between revisions

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* In ''[[Superman Red Son]]'', the Global Soviet Union, led by Superman, becomes a utopia nannystate where poverty (and crime, hunger, starvation, etc) are eliminated.

** Later, {{spoiler|President [[Lex Luthor]]}} manages to turn a struggling, waning American economy around by using a "strict, internal market where he had absolute control over every dollar bill".

* There was a hidden tribe in Africa in ''[[Planetary]]'' that lived in an [[Advanced Ancient Acropolis]] with no poverty and super advanced science.

* In ''[[wikipedia:Macrolife|Macrolife]]'', this is true of the civilization within the "urban levels" of the Asterome, a [[Generation Ships|colony ship]] roughly [[That's No Moon|200 km across]].

* In the ''[[Vorkosigan Saga]]'', there are no really poor people on Beta Colony, their understanding of the term refers to people ''without a computer in the home'', and even that is unheard of since access to information is guaranteed by the government. Cordelia has trouble getting her head around the concept on Barrayar, where illiteracy and starvation are everyday occurances in the rural areas.

* [[Ivan Yefremov]]'s ''[[Andromeda Nebula]]'' makes this trope one of a central points of its [[Utopia]] narrative. While there ''are'' examples of conscious self-limiting, no one really comprehends what it is to not have access to everything one needs, never mind not being able to eat enough each day.

* The [[Backstory]] of ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'' establishes the Age of Legends to have been like this. While there was still inequality, nobody lacked food or shelter.

== [[Theatre]] ==

* ''Utopia, Limited'':

'''Flowers of Progress:''' We are going to abolish it in England! }}

 

== [[Western Animation]]: ==

* ''[[The Simpsons]]'': in "You Only Move Twice" Homer gets headhunted for a job in a Company Town. In order to encourage the family to move he shows them a video made by the company which displays signs of No Poverty. It shows an ugly suburb transforming into a perfect community; parking meters become trees, abandoned warehouses become coffee shops, and a bum becomes a mailbox.

'''Hank Scorpio:''' We don't have bums, Marge, and if we did they wouldn't rush, they'd be allowed to go at their own pace. }}