2006-10-18 14:56:20 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Economics
It depends. If you define rich and poor solely in terms of material wealth, then this happens. However, 'rich' and 'poor' aren't the relevent benchmarks. Is the average person in a 'rich' country such as the US happier than a person who spends their entire life in a poor country where they live a subsistence lifestyle?
If a person who values material wealth gets richer, is it unfair that a person that doesn't value material wealth, but values something else gets poorer in a material sense but richer in terms of what they value?
Also, if you have two people that value material wealth equally and one is rich and the other poor, and the rich one gets richer because they work and the poorer one chooses not to (and this is because they have exercised a genuine choice), does this mean that if the rich person gets richer it is unfair?
2006-10-18 17:56:16 · answer #1 · answered by eco101 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That can happen. It all depends what type of person you are. Want to get rich, then get well educated even with a college degree? Get well rounded and learn a litttle of everything that is interesting to you. Stop feeling sorry for yourself and get to work improving your odds of sucess. Don't let others pull you down and hang out with the RIGHT CROWD as teens and adults. This is the biggest message to you.
If you hand with losers you become a loser and never excell. Hang out with those that are doing well in life and you learn to do well. Some people are moving up and you can tag along. Before you know it you will have many of the same keys to success.
I don't care about your background, race, looks, or any of that mumbo jumbo. Any one and I mean anyone can do better in life. If you are doing bad you need a change. Move, go to a different school, get a different job, make new friends, leave loser parents, and just concentrate on bettering your life.
If I did it so can you. I came from POOR family and neighborhood. I decided I was better than that and went to college and got a great job and made my life a success. I am no longer poor but I do spend lots of time and money to help others. I mentor teens because that is what is in my heart. I want to help other teens that are in situations that I came from. If I can do it so can you.
2006-10-18 22:06:26 · answer #2 · answered by Nevada Pokerqueen 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on the reasons for the getting richer/poorer...a rich person who invests well, who takes risk and profits from its success deserves to get richer. A poor person who uses their limited resources for cable TV or drugs or something, does not deserve to get richer and will get poorer.
2006-10-19 12:11:08 · answer #3 · answered by kingstubborn 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course not. It's never good when the income gap widens.
2006-10-18 21:58:43 · answer #4 · answered by red line 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋