Economics - October 2006

im just wondering the cost in american dollors how much
money would it take to feed all the people in the world?
does anybody really know how much ?

2006-10-19 16:26:07 · 11 answers · asked by hipymetiphisic 2

for building the pyramid?

[remember that the pyramid doesnt exist till the last block is put on]

is that what we are doing with bill gates & all other billionaires?

2006-10-19 16:07:33 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

problems, happy laughing smiling ppl, wd u choose equal pay/hr or a pay/hr range of one billion? ie from 1000th of average pay/hr, to a million times average pay/hr, with 1% paid above average, & 90% paid 10-1000th of average?

2006-10-19 16:03:18 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-19 14:22:11 · 5 answers · asked by thearentIcoolguy 1

is this argument false? 'wealth shouldnt be distributed equally among ppl bc ppl arent equally qualified & arent working equally - better that a lazy heir gets the money than everyone'

the heir does NO work for the money [except in rare cases where the heir has worked without pay anticipating being paid by inheriting] - broadly speaking, everyone works - therefore equal distribution is FAR MORE just - plus, the private property system [which is mostly good] deprives everyone of their rightful birthright fairshare of nature's goods, & equal distribution meets this injustice - plus, distribution of estates prevents endless wealth/power concentration, ie endless erosion of democracy, liberty & justice for all - plus, distribtn of deceased estates is taking property off a dead person [no injustice] & giving it to the living, reducing poverty [underpay] & tyranny [overpower of heirs] - which was the [wise] intention of american & french postrevolution laws: keeping everyone under the law

2006-10-19 14:07:32 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

if we identify and neutralise these legal thefts in the system, can we destroy war & 99% of misery?
does limiting fortunes to the max a person can earn by their work automatically & justly deal with [limit the evil of] any & all legal & illegal thefts? [a person can still steal [be overpaid] up to this limit, but this amount of theft is very litl compared to what we have, survivable, not war & miserygenerating]
once we are clear that there are legal thefts, we can set fortunes-limit with good conscience that we are not stealing by doing so? - & this limit will limit illegal theft too - limiting the power of the evil?
unlimited fortunes are unlimited stimulus to evil? & unlimited power to do evil [to enslave, rob, dominate, control, terrorise]? unlimited fortunes makes unlimited poverty makes slaves [cannonfodder, pawns, 'grunts' in the criminal army] supercheap?
with pay up to a billion x lowest pay, a billionaire [eg druglord] can buy a billion hrs work for one hr of his work?

2006-10-19 13:13:13 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

is this wrong?

'bill gates [bg] grew wealthy by making a LOT of things easier for a LOT of ppl - bg spends $20, sells for $100, saves ppl $1000s - that's value creation - you are rewarded for value you create for others'

shd we pay only for work [sacrifice of time & energy] or for benefit? is pay for anything but work, overpay/underpay? [= theft anger violence war crime unhappiness death]

[if we shd pay for benefit & we benefit by $1000s, shdnt we pay bg 1000s? [if we dont we are stealing] - but if we pay = the benefit we neutralise the benefit - so we cant pay fully for the benefit, so how much shd we pay for the benefit? only as much as the sacrifice [work] of the benefactor? whatever the market pays? the market pays for scarcity [unjust]as well as work [just]]
bg is paid for the temporary scarcity [ratio of demand to supply] shd bg be rewarded for high demand or low supply? the customers 'supply' the demand, not bg - society 'supplies' the low supply [new ind.] not bg

2006-10-19 12:54:05 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

i will choose the best answer for:
the most words wriiten, and defeintion

2006-10-19 11:40:28 · 2 answers · asked by didi_wah_2006 1

[therefore they are entitled to limitless reward?]

if they are working smarter, they are using nature's gifts of 'smartness' & therefore are not entitled to reward for nature's gifts? if they are rewarded for smarts, then the wrong person is rewarded? it is rewarding the person for another's [nature's] contribution? the smarts are no effort, no sacrifice of time or life or energy or anything by the person rewarded? we should [for justice, ie peace, democracy, sustainable capitalism, preservation of the state, law, order, happiness, pleasure, leisure, freedom from terrorism, war & crime, problems, troubles, anxieties, pains, griefs, and all things good] only compensate [=pay] for personal loss [of time, life, energy, etc] not for having nature's gifts? since the person gave nothing [in the effortless natural use of the smarts], it robs everyone else to reward for nothing?

giving $500,000/hr is giving 50,000 hrs of others' work [time life energy] [welth & powr] for one hr's work?

2006-10-19 11:03:52 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

because 'there are plenty of examples of ppl changing their circumstances [ie getting rich] if they want to'?

$500,000/hr is not unjust [dangerous wrong unjust theft extreme overpay democracy-destroying freedom-destroying state-destroying empire-destroying poverty-causing misery-causing extinction-causing war-causing] because more than one get rich?

a number got rich therefore everyone is equally free to get rich? the only reason everyone doesnt get rich is they dont desire to, or they are too 'lazy' to? [theyd rather moan about being poor & begging for handouts instead of 'getting off their ***'?]

we have equal opportunity, because some get rich?

$1/fortnt has equal opp with $1bn/ftnt?

a number get rich, therefore there is no overpay/underpay, overpower/underpower?

the rich get richer & the poor get poorer only because the rich work proportionately harder & the poor work prop.ly less & less?

bill gates is working a billion times harder/hr than the lowest paid?

2006-10-19 10:47:05 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

Please explain...

1) In which country, would one earn more money?
2) Living costs? (expensive vs. inexpensive)
3) Weather/Climate?
4) Job Opportunities/Education?

2006-10-19 10:21:53 · 4 answers · asked by heythere 3

serious questions be explicit

2006-10-19 09:36:59 · 2 answers · asked by leao 1

I am pretty sure, u can name at least three.

2006-10-19 09:01:08 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-19 08:55:05 · 7 answers · asked by Steve B 1

2006-10-19 06:46:46 · 6 answers · asked by Karine G 2

To what extent do you agree with assertion

2006-10-19 04:05:14 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-19 02:31:35 · 5 answers · asked by bassam 1

2006-10-19 01:56:32 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-19 01:49:55 · 3 answers · asked by #1gramps 2

Socialism is when the workers control the means of production and communism is when the state controls the means of production. Whenever I hear this though, it's followed by how communism eliminates the state because the state induces class struggle and communism is an economic system where there are no classes.

Plz explain what's up here.

2006-10-18 17:08:10 · 3 answers · asked by Mikey C 5

bill gates has peak pay/hr at a million times avg pay/hr - & has averaged over his career at 50,000 times av pay/hr
meanwhile the avg person works over 50 hrs/wk [i have seen figures on the net of over 90hrs/wk for american housewives, figures of 70 hrs/wk for british housewives - & the poorer the person, the harder they have to work just to survive - poorer means underpowered, so victim of the relative power of others, ie, they get stolen from, they have to slave [euphemisms: exploited, underprivileged]
& the hardest working person cannot do more than double this /wk
so can 'working very hard' justify no more than twice the average pay?
is this correct thinking?
is there a mistake in the reasoning anywhere?
when a person says: i worked hard for 'my' money, can we rightfully ask: what was your avg pay/hr? ie what is your fortune + spending, divided by workhrs?
what if 'his' pay/hr is 50,000 times avg? or 10x avg? hard work cannot justify higher than avg pay/hr - can anything?

2006-10-18 16:31:29 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

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2006-10-18 15:19:28 · 3 answers · asked by LEPRAMALEL 1

2006-10-18 14:57:35 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-18 14:56:20 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-18 14:55:02 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

Can someone please provide me with the link of the "Quarterly Report on the Economy" that came out on Friday, October 6, 2006.

2006-10-18 14:29:50 · 1 answers · asked by Caleb2 2

2006-10-18 12:05:07 · 5 answers · asked by hit_man 1

I overheard a conversation at lunch today. Two men were talking about the possibility that if every state raised their sales tax by 1%, the combined yearly total for the extra 1% of every state going to the Federal Government would eradicate the need for Income Taxes for John Q. Public and we would enjoy a larger paycheck. Any mathemeticians out there able to do the math on this?

2006-10-18 10:47:57 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Does the movement of interest rates (both increasing and decreasing) affect a firms profitability and how.

any elaborate and fully explained answers will be greatly appreciated.

2006-10-18 07:39:48 · 1 answers · asked by Joe G 1

the full meaning of national income and it importants

2006-10-18 07:34:55 · 1 answers · asked by agianpe S 1