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Should global wealth be re-distributed evenly?

What do YOU think?

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global: worldwide
wealth: riches, money
re-distribute: give (something) out again, share out again
evenly: in a balanced way; the same for everyone

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Hhhm..that's a tough one. Logistically, I don't think that's possible. For starters, there is no governing body that has control over all the countries so it would be tough to do. Besides, I believe that all first world countries would be opposed to the idea. You can't blame them though. They've worked hard in order to provide for their country.

Besides, they do their part by extending aid to those who needs it. :)

What do you guys think?

It's an unreachable and senseless event. It's not fair to take someone's wealth just because he/she has more than other one. If one works harder than another, it's obvious that he/she deserves more money. Of course, there are lot of cases when the gifted one hardly lives with the ammount of money he/she has and a fool can buy his/her entire village. This isn't very fair neither, but you can't make justice with an injustice.

^Hi, I see that you want to be corrected if there are mistakes in your post. I hope you don't mind. :)

It's an unreachable and senseless event.

You should use a different word instead of event. You can use something like strategy or something like that.

It's not fair to take someone's wealth just because he/she has more than other one

It should be he/she has more than the other one.

If one works harder than another

If one works harder than the other

ammount of money

amount of money

This isn't very fair neither

This isn't very fair either

Overall, your post is very good. The thought is there and it was very understandable. Keep up the good work!

The problem with the other countries is they sometimes ask too much and if it wasn't given, the rich countries are targeted as bad guys.

Thanks a lot for correcting me. I wasn't expecting that someone would really take his/her time to correct me but looks like I was wrong.

You're welcome. It's actually good that you are encouraging people to correct you. It pays off to welcome constructive criticisms. You're going to be more vigilant that way. Besides, we're here to learn and we need all the help we can get.

A more logical thing to do is to take care of a global wealth that we have been disregarding - our environment. If we take care of our environment as a whole, then the whole world will benefit from this global wealth.

TalkingPoint wrote:Should global wealth be re-distributed evenly?

What do YOU think?

Let's think about consequences. First of all, it is a crisis in every segments of economy. If everyone will be rich, then nobody will work. We will have a lot of money, but there will be nothing to buy because no one goes to a factory, office, etc. and does daily job.

But redistributing the global wealth evenly doesn't mean we would all be rich. We could be just moderate. So we still need to work to get rich or at least, to survive.

Remember the theme of Beijing Olympics of 2008?
Yes, you are right! One world, one dream.
Can global wealth be distributed equally or evenly?
Yes, in your dream.

Xkalibur wrote:

TalkingPoint wrote:Should global wealth be re-distributed evenly?

What do YOU think?

Let's think about consequences. First of all, it is a crisis in every segments of economy. If everyone will be rich, then nobody will work. We will have a lot of money, but there will be nothing to buy because no one goes to a factory, office, etc. and does daily job.

That's pretty good. I never thought of it that way. No one will do the jobs that is usually done by the poor.

halfknot wrote:But redistributing the global wealth evenly doesn't mean we would all be rich. We could be just moderate. So we still need to work to get rich or at least, to survive.

But if we're all equal, who's going to do the jobs that were done by the poor? Let's say a poor man is now as equally rich as Bill Gates, who would do the job of the poor?

Nanning wrote:Remember the theme of Beijing Olympics of 2008?
Yes, you are right! One world, one dream.
Can global wealth be distributed equally or evenly?
Yes, in your dream.

Yes, it will only happen in our dreams.

englishhelps wrote:But if we're all equal, who's going to do the jobs that were done by the poor? Let's say a poor man is now as equally rich as Bill Gates, who would do the job of the poor?

Just because we are all equal in wealth, doesn't make us equal everywhene. Some of us are stronger, some of us are smarter, some of us will get rich again, some of us will get rich for the first time and most of us will get poor.

halfknot wrote:

englishhelps wrote:But if we're all equal, who's going to do the jobs that were done by the poor? Let's say a poor man is now as equally rich as Bill Gates, who would do the job of the poor?

Just because we are all equal in wealth, doesn't make us equal everywhene. Some of us are stronger, some of us are smarter, some of us will get rich again, some of us will get rich for the first time and most of us will get poor.

Yes, but there are jobs that the rich wouldn't do. For example, dishwashing. Let's say that everyone is equal in terms of money. That means they are equal in stature. The person who used to wash dishes as a job wouldn't want to do it anymore. Since he's equally as rich as everyone, why would he settle for a lesser job? He'll probably just start his own business. No one would want to go back to doing blue collar jobs.

Two points shall be made clear before we go on:
1. What is wealth?(money, stocks, women, diamond, property, cars,land, oil paintings, etc)
2. How evenly is really evenly? (geographically, per capita, by sex, by age, by country, or what else....)
Please define them, otherwise all is hot air.

englishhelps wrote:

halfknot wrote:

englishhelps wrote:But if we're all equal, who's going to do the jobs that were done by the poor? Let's say a poor man is now as equally rich as Bill Gates, who would do the job of the poor?

Just because we are all equal in wealth, doesn't make us equal everywhene. Some of us are stronger, some of us are smarter, some of us will get rich again, some of us will get rich for the first time and most of us will get poor.

Yes, but there are jobs that the rich wouldn't do. For example, dishwashing. Let's say that everyone is equal in terms of money. That means they are equal in stature. The person who used to wash dishes as a job wouldn't want to do it anymore. Since he's equally as rich as everyone, why would he settle for a lesser job? He'll probably just start his own business. No one would want to go back to doing blue collar jobs.

Then how they would eat? Everyone will wash its dishes until the weak and the unlucky ones go bankruptcy.

The whole idea of re-distribution the global wealth is absolutely preposterous. Firstly, the adverb 'evenly' every human beeing is tend to understand on his own way. And you may notice that right here, in this thread, one says evenly poor, others - evenly rich. Secondly, seeing someone richer than you is a huge stimulus to an ambitious, educated person, but for an ignorant lowbrow it's like blood in the water that causes revolutions. Working hard on a field that is becoming to your abilities, knowledge and education, besides if it's evenly(!) paid, - I suppose this is the key issue.

I'm convinced that the current people who, as you say, do the lower jobs like washing dishes or cleaning the streets - the job that surely must be more respected, suffer from that white collars that provide the financial bubble of unsupported by manufacturing bulk of money.

A better strategy to do is get back wealth that was accumulated illegally. Like for the Philippines, a lot of our wealth was taken by our ex President Marcos and his wife and is in a Swiss bank. We should get it back. The same applies for other countries.

I think it would be better to say that the first world countries have a moral obligation to help out those in need. After all, we're in just one world.

By redistributing the global wealth evenly I understand the global amount of money / number of humans.
If it's much or not, I don't know, but I supposed it's medium.

Still, the fact remains that it's logistically impossible. It may sounds as if a noble cause, but down the line, it would affect the check and balance of the world.

It's hard to answer on this question, because on the one hand global wealth should be re-distributed evenly, because lots of people waste their money on useless things, and at the same time the other people in another poor countries are hungry. But on the second hand the rich who were educating for a long time should have a luxury life as though they could waste their money , it's their issue, because of fairness. The were working hard as an ant to to live better. I think that the rich should decide if their wealth is re-distributed or not. the poor should trying to find a job instead of waiting for benefits for unemployment.

I think that global wealth shouldn't be re-distributed evenly. There are a lot of advantages but I think that the biggest disadvantage is that there are a lot of bad people who will use this money for bad intentions.

No, i think its a really bad idea, evryone has a different goals. Someone work hard day after day but someone is lazy and dont want to achive great things. So wealth depends on everyone and shouldnt be re-distributed.

I suppose, that global wealth shouldn't be re-disturbed evenly, because this is bad idea. On the world are different people. Some people work, some people are lazy and they don't want to do something useful. The idea would be unjust. But on the other hand this situation would be great for poor people, who want to work for better life, but they live in poor country.

I thinkt that global wealth shouldn't be re-disturbed evenly, because it is not a good idea. People who are rich, work really hard to make the money and some people want to be rich but they don't want to work. It isn't fair. But on the other hand people from slumsy would be very happy to change them life!

I think globad wealth shouldn't be re-distributed evenly. Every rich person worked really hard for make money. They spent a lot of time to reach succes. On the same time lazy people didn't do anything. It is not fair to give them money for doing nothing.

halfknot wrote:It's an unreachable and senseless event. It's not fair to take someone's wealth just because he/she has more than other one. If one works harder than another, it's obvious that he/she deserves more money. Of course, there are lot of cases when the gifted one hardly lives with the amount of money he/she has and a fool can buy his/her entire village. This isn't very fair neither, but you can't make justice with an injustice.

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I think it isn't possible to global wealth be re-distributed evenly. It's normal that some people are very rich, some poor. In my opinion one group of people should be poorer that the second group can be rich.

It could be fair but the world is not fair. As far as im concerned global wealth shouldnt be re-distributed evenly. It is a very ambiguous thesis. However, I think that it is not true in every sense.

In my opinion global wealth shouldn't be re-distributed evenly, because it would destroy the existing economy. Especially it would destroy people. Money changes man for worse man. The world could go mad. I don't want it.

For my global wealth shouldn't be re-distributed evenly, because it would have many bad effects. If bad people had acces to a lot of money, they would use it to make world worse and then people certainly would regre it.

No. I think that it would destroy economy. And it's risk

No. I think everybody should have that what he was working. It would be a big theft to steal somebody's goods and re-distribute it.

I don't think so, each region has its own wealth and that makes a world so different and interesting. We shouldn't re-distributed global wealth, because this would destroy everything we have so far and we would have to start it all over again.

i don't agree with this, i think that this would be very unfair for all people who work very hard for their wealth.

This is a hard question often asked by scientists. According to the idea of equality, everyone should get the same kind of wealth. But does everyone deserve the same fate? Or maybe this idea is impossible to meet? After all equality is just a concept with no attachments to the reality.‏

In my opinion global wealth shouldn't be re-distributed evenly. Sometimes people are poor because they don't want to go to work. Some people worked for many years to have money for a decent life.In the world not everyone can be rich.

I think that global wealth souldn't be re-distributed evenly because somebody doesn't know how to use money or what they can do with them. And in result, they will spend them on wrong way or for bad things, for instance on drinking alcohol..

Definitely it is difficult question but I think that global wealth shouldn't be re-distributed evenly because not everyone merit to have a money. There is a part of people who spent a money on alcohol and drugs and why they should use a global wealth? There are also people who don't work and I think that it would be ~ unfair if they have money just like people who hard work.

What's the purpose? I think somewhere near the end this will also lead to tyranny.

Sharing is loving so we better distribute it equally.

I do not think it is necessary. Wealth is already distributed through the market in a semi-efficient manner. This is what we called microeconomic. Think it the other way, suppose we distribute all the wealth evenly, under this situation, no one has motivation to produce products or doing works since they are getting paid equally no matter what.

Global wealth shouldn’t be re-distributed. Property is a sacred and inviolable right. If we rudely re-distribute the global wealth, some people will think that they can get money even if they do nothing, which is harmful to the world. Wealth is created by hard work. A better way is to advocated the wealthy persons to help the poor, teaching them skills of living, earning money, rather than directly give money to them.

Vega wrote: ↑Wed Aug 12, 2009 3:25 pm

TalkingPoint wrote:Should global wealth be re-distributed evenly?

What do YOU think?

Let's think about consequences. First of all, it is a crisis in every segments of economy. If everyone will be rich, then nobody will work. We will have a lot of money, but there will be nothing to buy because no one goes to a factory, office, etc. and does daily job.

Agree with your point of view. However why always do we think of rich people? What about if we get a balance as a medium class. Everybody can keep their job but living in a decent way.

Yes, global wealth should be re-distributed evenly.
There is no meritocratic reason why a person should born rich and another one struggling for surviving. It is just a matter of luck. Of course, those who have been lucky enough to be born in a wealth environment fears the opportunity to share this opportunity, because they very well know that for any privileged person, there are thousands who are underprivileged.
However, there are many reasons why it is not only just (which will be enough) but also advantageous to re-distribute the global wealth evenly.
Wealth goes together with political power. In order to have a more just and democratic system, re-distribution is required. On the contrary, polarization of wealth means that a few people decide the fate of the majority, increasing corruption. To re-distribute wealth it means to give opportunity to many countries to take ownership of their lives and to end the mosto common underling colonial thought: that some countries have to take care of other countries, they have to help them emancipating, they have to teach them how to be successful.
Redistributive policies also allow people to have easier access to education, which might decrease the percentage of crimes in the suburbs.

Let's try this. I understand it is unfair to take money away from people just because they are wealthy. However, if we look back to see how the wealth was accumulated in a family hundreds or even thousands of years ago, we might notice that it was also unfair. For example, back in the ages before the government formed or well functioned, people became very rich because they had access to natural treasures such as gold, diamond, petroleum, etc. The uneven distribution of wealth back then can significantly affect economic inequality nowadays.