Do you think an equal distribution of wealth would benefit everyone?

Question

Do you believe that the rich deserve their money? Do you believe that the poor deserve their lack of money? Do you believe that if we lived in a community of shared wealth it would be better for everyone? Do you believe that money really makes someone happy? Why should the poor have to suffer while the rich get richer?

Money doesn't make anyone happier, but people need enough to live on, and for many that is not a reality.

All corporations should be eliminated. Just small buisnesses should exist.

Maybe people don't get paid with money, but instead get given the same basic resourses, so that nobody would end up ever becoming poor.

Answer 1

It would benefit losers like you for sure.

If you don't believe money makes someone happier then why are you concerned with inequality in wealth?

I believe that I (upper-middle class starting from nothing) deserve ever single penny I have made and owe nobody anything.

Answer 2

Distribution of wealth would not work or benefit anybody. If you gave all people the same amount of money, a certain amount of the population would become rich and the others wouldn't. Why? Because some people would invest and work at multiplying their money while others would squander it away. Those same people would come back to the Governement and want more and cry about the people who WORK for their money. That is what is wrong with entitlement programs. You have to EARN what you have. You will never really appreciate that which you are given, but you will appreciate that which you earn.

Answer 3

I think just as some people are born with a silver spoon in their mouth and have limitless opportunities, there are people born at the other end of the spectrum. There are the disabled who, no matter what they do, can't earn what is required to meet their needs. There are the elderly who got screwed out of their retirement. There are children born into environments where education isn't valued and they are never encouraged to set goals, let alone achieve them. People are poor and needy for as many reasons they are rich.

Yes. Most of the rich deserve what they have. They may not "work" like most of us do, but there is an art to having money and making it work for you. There is a science to building up money and not losing it. Just as a doctor must have special knowledge of anatomy and medicine, so the wealthy must possess knowledge of finances and economy. It is theirs.

That does not imply, though, that the poor deserve their poverty. Some do. Some people are so freaking lazy that it's a wonder they even bother to breathe. There are others, though, who have done nothing to deserve their poverty. They are victims of circumstance. Think of the convicted felon fresh out of prison and how eager a community is to welcome him. He can't find work, people don't want to rent to him, he just can't get a break. If he does find work, it's underpaid and he probably has to take an extra helping of crap with it. So, just because one is true, that does not mean the other has to be also. It's a major oversimplification.

Answer 4

Who should have so much power to decide how much money any person "deserves"? This idea has been tried before and it failed - miserably. Remember Communism?

The idea of equal wealth distribution sounds wonderful, but where then is the incentive to achieve anything or to even be successful? If I can choose sit on my butt why do I deserve to reap the same benefits as the person who is working to find a cure for AIDS? Actually, if everyone reaps the same benefits, then what incentive would there be for anyone to even spend the time to find a cure for AIDS?

I bet you then would suggest that the government decides who should do what job and then force them to do it? That is exactly what happened in Socialist Russia in an effort for them to become a true Communist society.

Answer 5

ABSOLUTELY NOT!

Again, this is the problem with communism. It ignores basic human motivations. If everyone is to be equal in outcome, then why work hard, educate yourself, or become an entrepeneur?

What you would see is an economy grind to a halt as people realized they can be just as well off if they sit on their lazy butts at work, if they even go to work, rather than try achieve and advance.

If you look at actual census bureau data (linked below) , you will see that the poor are getting richer over time, along with the rich.

The Soviet workers used to have a saying, "We pretend to work and the government pretends to pay us."

Answer 6

Da, Comrade. Power to proletariat, down with capitalists, pass the vodka when it all fails. The next time you're in the supermarket and see a woman with a 19th century hair style, ask her if she's Russian. When she says yes, share your thoughts with her and watch her laugh at you. It's because your ideas don't work that she came to America in the first place. Back when your ideas were in force in Russia, but didn't work that way, she wasn't allowed to travel to foreign countries. If she tried she was shot.

Answer 7

Nope. If you don't earn your money it doesn't mean anything to you. The governments wasteful spending is a perfect example.

You really want other people's money don't you? This is like the 20th time you've asked essentially the same question.

Answer 8

I beliebe corporate welfare programs should be eliminated, and, that corporations should pay a flat tax of 28%. So, yes, redistribution of wealth should be eliminated!

Answer 9

Oh gods no. I didn't spend four years breaking my back in the Marines, and then 8 years racking my brain in college so that I can distribute my wealth to those who didn't bother to get off their behinds.

Answer 10

When you write your book on how it is unfair and it suddenly become an overnight success and have all that money for your work...we will check with you again for your answer to this question.