My thoughts of the world and how it operates and what can be done to better the lives of billions of people?

Question

sell all the mansions that rich people have. make them live in apartments so they can give money back to the world and sell all their bling bling. i think some rappers have like 1 million dollars on one little finger that could be used to build homes for a few people. Bill Gates has like 55 billion? wtf do you do with all that money? the world should have a set limit on home much money you should be able to have based on the size of your family. all exceeded family salary allowances should be put into a fund that goes towards research for medical advances to stop the illnesses that kill millions of people, space exploration to find possible other unknown sources of energy in the universe. developing better trade routes for food, supplies, and other items some countries cannot produce. start building cities in the sky to help the overpopulated countries to have the opportunity co-exist with developed nations to better their education and quality of life. With the education comes more advanced technology that will revolutionize the world and make surving the next couple of centuries possible. with the technology comes ways to cut down on pollution, crime, deaths, healthcare, the list goes on. the countries that are developed and have resources needed to diminish the military and have the millions have men and women fighting each other from countries around the world turned into one force that will work together to find ways to aid those who are in need. the force could be used to for a number of things including building new cities, farms, non-hazordous energy plants that transform air and water into massive energy banks that can be stored underground below cities or in a elevated storage facility that is hovering over a city to be used as a power source for large scale cities. i could go on, but the world isn't ready for this kind of large scale change, it is to busy fighting wars over land, power, natural resources, and who has a bigger budget. i can only hope that one day we can live together in peace and work together to improve our lives and our neighbooring peoples lives.

Answer 1

Where to begin??

First of all...why did you ask this same question 5 times in a row? Very strange indeed. Plus, this is supposed to be a Q&A format. Your manifesto is NOT a question.

Now on to your vision. No one could possibly address each of your stream-of-consciousness declarations and suggestions. But your first two sentences are emblematic of your views and also reveal the shortcomings of your views.

You say: "sell all the mansions that rich people have. Make them live in apartments so they can give money back to the world and sell all their bling bling".

What's a "mansion"? There are extremely impoverished people everywhere who would consider even the simplest American home a "mansion". If they espoused your view, would you agree to let them force you (and your family) to sell your "mansion" and share the proceeds with them?

You see, wealth is a relative term. There's always someone with a whole lot more than you. If someone with 1000 times more than you is "evil" simply based on an accounting of how much he has, then are YOU evil because you have 1000 times more than many other people?

Of course not.

Someone in Africa with 3 goats and a mud hut is viewed as a greedy bastard by a neighbor with 1 goat and a grass hut. Shall we take away 1 goat from the first man and give it to the second in the name of equality?

Again, of course not.

It's human nature to strive for more. Some people are a LOT better at it than others. Some are more skilled. Some are luckier. Some inherit money. Some live in countries with more opportunity. But each one, regardless of his or her circumstance acts on their human instinct to achieve and acquire more. And most of us realize that how well we do is more our personal responsibility than anyone else’s.

Anything that guarantees equality of outcome regardless of equality of effort and deservedness goes directly against human nature and will eventually be rejected by the masses. That's why the only way Communism and Socialism survive is with totalitarian rule under threat of forceful action.

(And those totalitarian rulers ALWAYS live far better than their restrained and forcefully "equalized" citizens)

I was just reading about the US money supply. There is just shy of one trillion dollars in circulation. That's enough for about $3,000 cash for every American citizen. Would you like to wave a magic wand and have every family in America suddenly have the same?

Here's what happens next:

Within a few hours, some people start to spend money with others who make a profit. Some people decide to steal money. Some decide to gamble on high-risk investments (sold by still others). And some people begin businesses, hire others, make profits, salt it away in the bank and, maybe someday, buy a mansion! Would you outlaw all of that activity?

Punch line: You can't succeed if there's no risk of failure. Life is a wonderful mixture of opportunity, luck, risk, reward, failure and success.

Do whatever you wish with your own success. But you can't legislate what everyone else does with theirs.

Answer 2

money isn't a commodity. you can't feed and house people with it like how you're thinking. it's nice to see you're passionate, but i'm sorry to say that you seem to have really bad understanding of economics. the key to helping developing nations is to help them to become self-sustaining. of course, this has a price. it'll take away luxuries from countries like america. so a lot of other people might be against the idea. i'm all for the idea though. i (like yourself) would rather have starving people eat, than to continue letting americans live wasteful lives. but you don't achieve that goal by "spreading wealth".

as far as the fighting goes, i think we all wanna live in a peaceful world. well, no, some folks like making money off of selling weapons. but standardly countries only fight wars for one of three reasons. 1- for their religion, 2- for land and resources, and 3- because someone else wants to fight them. and the sad thing is, as long as reasons 1 and 2 continue to exist, then so will reason 3. so,, you can't be a hippy about stuff, and say things like, "let's all just stop fighting". that's silly. because if one side listens to you, then the other side will beat them. and of course, both sides reach this conclusion, so neither stops. no one wants to live in a perfect world more than i do. but i'm telling you, you're not really providing a plan as to how we get there. and the few ideas that you have provided just won't work.

also,, just so you know, bill gates is extremely philanthropic. he uses his riches to better the world. that'll do a lot more good than just spreading the money around. you should really educate yourself more about the complexities of economics and foreign policy, and more about bill gates and what he's doing.

Answer 3

Um... thats pretty much a pipe dream. Sounds alot like communism which will never work. Know why? Because communism relies on the good of the people and the concept of sharing. *note that I said communism, not socialism* By nature, mankind is self-centered and in many instances lacks self-control. So while your ideas may sound nice, I hope you are in touch with reality enough to understand that such things will never happen.

Not trying to be mean, just real.

Answer 4

Bill Gates sold Microsoft so he could spend more of his time running his charity. and when he did have all that money it wasn't really spending money it was used to run the company. But you are right a lot of people waste their money when people need help. and we deffinately do need to work together.

Answer 5

just we ask the american government not to support our dectator leaders anymore and we will be better than america

Answer 6

Thank Ra you're not in charge!

Answer 7

wake up your dreaming again

Answer 8

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