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 in Social Science ➔ Economics
First of all there can't be legal thefts...It's a oxymoron.
If you try to limit the amount a person can earn...One of two or possibly both things will happen.
1) They'll figure a way around it...For example, they'll have the company pay for things...That's how health insurance situation in the US started...During WWII there were wage caps, so companies were limited in the way they can compete with cash so they offer other benefits.
2) People just won't try as hard...Why bother, if I can't benefit from the fruits of my labor...This will hurt the society even more.
What you're suggesting is essentially communism and we have plenty of examples that it doesn't work.
2006-10-20 19:04:26 · answer #1 · answered by feanor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it will take a lot more than that to free the world from war. That requires people to learn to love all, serve all.
2006-10-23 09:54:57 · answer #2 · answered by MBK 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋