Shameonyou
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Is there enough money in the world for everyone to be rich?
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Roberto Dinero
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I'd say yes.
Not everyone would be a millionaire but if wealth was distributed fairly no one would be f*cking starving out here or not have clean water to drink and live in utter poverty.
Sadly, our planet don't work like that. Its every man for himself and greed is king.
Not everyone would be a millionaire but if wealth was distributed fairly no one would be f*cking starving out here or not have clean water to drink and live in utter poverty.
Sadly, our planet don't work like that. Its every man for himself and greed is king.
rich and poor are normative or comparative concepts, they are taken in context
someone has to be rich in order to compare them to a poor person and vice versa
...the question is, can everyone be comfortable. Are there enough resources to do that?
someone has to be rich in order to compare them to a poor person and vice versa
...the question is, can everyone be comfortable. Are there enough resources to do that?
Sierra Mist
Banned
Yes, but if every day is a sunny day, the value of a sunny day goes down. It's like beauty. If everyone is "beautiful" then by default everyone would be average. You can't have beauty without ugly. You can't have hot without cold. There is no such thing as an adjective that doesn't have an antonym. If everyone on the planet were rich then everyone on the planet would have an average income. Plus prices on everything would increase.
DrunkenNovice
Superstar
If wealth was distributed evenly then prices would be adjusted to offset that...
SouthernBelle
#Feyonce
Honestly, if wealth were to be equally distributed today, we would end up with a similar wealth distribution within a few years. People in general don't know what to do with money;therefore, the same business minded people with end up with the most money.
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HookersandIceCream
#TeamOrange
You have no idea how economics works like asking that
DrunkenNovice
Superstar
out of curiousity...do you agree more with economic policy from the left or right?
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Who would work at menial jobs that need to be done?
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Majestic Pape
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It's all relative so there isn't a situation where "everyone" could be rich.
Possibly. But there's always going to be people that know how to make their money work better than others. They'll get rich in some way, other will become poorer as they make bad decisions, power will be multiplied through time by those making good decisions, and you're back to now.
Richness is relative. For example, even the poor in the United States is abundantly rich compared to those in a lot of other places in the world or compared to those who have lived in the past.
If everyone had the same thing as everyone else though, everyone wouldn't be rich in comparison to each other. We'd all be 'middle class.'
If everyone had the same thing as everyone else though, everyone wouldn't be rich in comparison to each other. We'd all be 'middle class.'