if the poor where rich and the rich where poor would the world be a better place?

Question

if there was no money or we all had the same?

Answer 1

Riches are felt in your heart...not in your pocket ask any poor person

Answer 2

Aregghhhh! it's WERE. Where is a place. WERE is the past tense of the verb 'to be'.
Okay, on to your question. If the poor were rich and the rich were poor, what do you think would change? The poor would still have nothing and the rich would still have everything. The only thing that might make a difference is if each group could remember what it felt like to be a member of the other group.
If there was no money, we would have to exist in a barter society, and there are simply too many of us for that to be a workable solution. If we all had the same to begin with, it wouldn't take long before we were right back to the rich and the poor situation. Some people are entrepreneurs, others aren't, and that's just the way people are made.

Since the 'Long Leap Forward' (the Chinese revolution) everyone had the same (except for party leaders) and the country was blandly conformist. Then the door opened, and the Chinese gradually began to allow private enterprise. The result? There is a noveau riche class in China, and some people live in abject poverty. So --which is better? State control of everything, or free enterprise with its highs and lows?

Answer 3

Years ago, a reporter who was interviewing JD Rockerfellow (the first "million are") began to give him a hard time about having all this money when millions of people were in poverty and starving to death around the world. He demanded to know why Rockerfellow did not share his wealth equally with everyone.

Thinking for a moment, the millionaire asked how many people there were in the United States at the time. The reporter answered about 200 million. Pulling out an adding machine, he divided the population into his million dollars. Results - $0.05. He then handed the reported a nickel and threw him out of the office.

If all the money in the world was evenly distributed to every person on earth, you might get enough to pay a low end car. That would be it. Then, since no one would have money left to run their business, they would all collapse, the economy would be ruined, and no one would be in a position to earn more. Thousands would die.

If the poor were to exchange places with the rich, within five years most would be back where they started. The poor would have not idea how to manage or maintain their wealth, and the rich would know how to rebuild theirs. Just look at the number of instant millionaires from lotteries, etc. that are bankrupt wiht five years because they don't know how to manage the wealth.

It is a nice idea, but it would never work.

Answer 4

The world was made and it is a place where we dwelled in. There is no better place to be in except a cozy home.

The poor are rich in something else like family love, communion , live a life of a free person as in you won't be afraid going out the house thinking that you will be robbed off your financially riches. Happily stroll along the park without having to have few body guards providing securities to safeguards from being kidnapped.

See rich better are poor in this because they have all this burdens which ordinary people do not need to worry. They are constantly conscious of their immensed wealth being exposed and raided by plunderers and paparazzis.

Yes the world will be a better place if the wealth distribution are more evenly tabulated. However, it;s life, face it. At the end of the day, every individual can change the course of their life with their own hands. Destiny is chosen by yourself not by others.

Stop comparing and work towards the goal of your life and you will find it rewarding and your life have be meaningful.

Answer 5

Nope, because the people who were poor but are now rich would start acting like the old rich people and the formerly rich people would start acting like the old poor people and the world would be the same. If there was no money we would be forced to go back to the barter system and use trade goods and that would be very inefficient and horrible and as far as everyone having the same that was what Communism was all about and that failed horribly.

Answer 6

no, then the poor will think like the rich, and the rich will think like the poor, as a result the world will be the same. inequality is the cause for all the problems in this world.

Answer 7

no world would not be a better place.
I want to tell you a story.. A rich man takes his son to somewhere to teach what to be rich means .
To show his son the richness he has . and one day it will be belong to his son.
after spending a few weeks with poor people , he asks his son if he notice difference between being poor and rich
well , he answered , Dad these people has many puppies , we just have one.. we have a swimming pool , but they have a river..
we have a little garden they have a big one ..
Thanks for showing me how poor we are ..

Think as a child for a second then you will see the world will not be a better place in the situation you asked above

Answer 8

It would be the same as it is the (poor) Rich peoples may wanna get revenge on the (rich) poor peoples by doing what they did to them which brings us back to the it would be the same..

Answer 9

I'd like to think so. If you've been poor you know that it is the worst of all situations. I think it gives you more compassion. Imany people who've always been rich seem to think that it's because they are superior and that is the way things are supposed to be and look down on the poor with contempt. If there was no money we wouldn't have the progree we have now so I don't think that would be a solution. Good ideas.

Answer 10

Barring inherited wealth, the poor are poor because they lack the ambition and/or the intelligence to make it on their own.

If a magic fairly took the assets from the rich and gave them to the poor and then waited a few years, the rich would be rich again and the poor would be poor again.

You can't change human nature and you can't change intelligence.

Answer 11

" riches in the heart" blah blah blah.... we are in this situation: not a current job, rent due, light bill due, cable bill due, and hubby will start a new job in a few days. " riches in the heart " don't mean crap.... they don't pay the bills nor do they put food on the table! the money keeps the roof over the head, a full belly and gas in the car AND the wolves from the door! I have been poor all my life and i can say that poverty SUX!