There is plenty of "wealth" on this planet to solve all problems, why are they not solved?

Answer 1

C'mon, Captain. You know the answer to this question. It's simple: greed.

Answer 2

Well, James as a traveler of the universe you have seen many cultures. Some have wealth and many do not. Politics plays a role in wealth although they would deny it. Money is a tool used for and against specific objectives. Greed lives in some people's hearts. The people who have wealth are very responsible, some of them, and it is hard for them to understand those who lack in taking responsibility. there are many with money who do the right thing and those who don't, you could say do not want to or don't feel it is their job. How do you help those who don't want help and want the criminal life. How do you choose between say medical needs and housing needs? How do they choose between art and medicine? Have you thought about what you would choose to do if you had a bundle of extra cash? There is research, there is pollution, there is education, there is housing, there are homeless animals.

Answer 3

Wealth tends to concentrate in the hands of those who pursue it. The scarcity of resources then get exchanged and those without means tend to suffer for it.

Also, wealth is a relative thing. Being poor in the US makes you wealthier than 99% of the worlds population in terms of material possessions. Wealth, in and of itself, is not a cure for the worlds problems. Instead, an understanding of what those problems are and how they can be fixed is required. Wealth is just the means of securing those changes after the solution is properly identified.

Answer 4

People are greedy. They think if they share their wealth, their lives won't be as fufilling. Simple as that. If we could get everyone into houses, living happily, without giving up what we have, the world would be perfect. People just can't risk losing it all. I personally help, but if everyone could give their government one dollar, to get people off streets, it'd work. No one would be homeless.

If we solved all the problems, what makes life interesting? I mean, obviously it'd be happier... but it'd also be a boring world, if we had no problems, no frustrations and nothing to gain.

Answer 5

You presuppose that wealth solves problems.
Careful planning and evaluating after implementation of a plan are musts for successful problem solving.

Answer 6

wealth cannot solve all problems. Your premise is flawed. Some things there are simply no answer to no matter how much money you have.

Answer 7

because wealth isnt enough to stop problems any ways.

by your reasoning all people would be happy and the earths problem would go away just if everybody had more money.

but yea you are basically suggesting that communism be reintroduced, but to the whole world.

but it wont work because many people think or know that they are better than others, and that they deserve more.

Answer 8

Because we are trapped by the fear of death and been so afraid of death we tend to soothe our fear by attaining a sense of security thru material possessions.
People feel that the more they have the longer they live but that’s not true at all.
I’ve met individuals who are rich but so afraid of death that they are willing to go to any extent so as to avoid death. They steal, cheat, kill, manipulate, destroy just to gain more wealth hoping that it will be enough to save them from the unavoidable death. Hey… they are even afraid to whisper the word death.
For as long as we live in the fear of death we’ll go on destroying the planet, the lives of our fellow human beings and our selves in hopes of reaching immortality thru earthly possessions.

Answer 9

Well, look at the former USSR. They tried to "distribute" wealth and solve all the problems...

Answer 10

Greed of the few. Money is a man made system, yet there is not enough to go around? Very telling indeed.

Answer 11

because wealth goes hand in hand with greed
if wealth were together with intelligence they could be solved