In order for the wealthy to remain wealthy, must there be poor people?
156422
Yes, for people to be considered wealthy there must be people poorer than them or we would all be equal which would redefine wealthy.
665916
Survival of the Richest
510743
First part:\nBecause we live in a society that is not equal, and we do not have equal economic distribution\n\nSecond:\n\nThe only thing we can do, is to work hard in stopping the rich being richer and the poorer being poorer.
774079
Nope, never had that happen. Poor people tend to stay poor. Rich people tend to be stingy!
925742
Income yes except for those that make poverty wages; wealth no, that would be like taxing someones income twice.
134525
The poor in this country live quite well. While there is still a lot to be done to help these individuals, they themselves should be doing a lot more. Being poor, in my opinion, is a choice in most cases. Not so in most of the world, where conditions force billions of people to live many times below the American Average poor person. Work and resources are not available even to those that work very hard. In America, however, there is so much opportunity that to be poor is very hard for me to understand.
467943
it would never work. If we had all the same, no one would collect the trash or do similar jobs, why should they.\nBut I do think that could be a better balance, if the Rich gave more. I ask I much money does one need to be happy, how much is enough, a million, 2 million where does it stop.\nI'm not poor or rich and still I help and give to the ones worse off them me, so if the rich help more this would be better world.
939601
probably, or at least more limits on them.\n\nthink about it.\n\nloaning people who can't afford things money so they can become more in debt.\n\nnot really ethical maybe
18161
I disagree with your premise...I see wealth being redistributed all the time.\n\nIndividuals who were born poor are constantly finding ways to change their circumstance and their tax bracket.  It happens ridiculously often, at least here in the States.  Remember, if you have nothing, it's hard to get any poorer.  So these folks have little to risk, and everything to gain from starting a business.  The poor make arguably the best small business owners.\n\nOn the other side, the rich stop getting richer when they die, and in many, many cases their heirs quickly "redistribute" their fortunes, often squandering a lifetime of wealth in a few short years.
473674
the gap between the rich and the poor...
2299
Not till now. As you know, leading the pack in the rich people's list is Bill Gates, still has to get around 953.5 Billion dollars to make it to the list of trillionaires. But someone will surely become a trillionare in the coming 100 years, maybe you sfgrigsb99.
381617
being poor and being lazy are not the same thing...\nbeing poor and having no money are not the same thing...\nyou are clearly a materialist with some major issues to resolve...\n\nfor myself -\nI have the one thing that money cannot buy:\n\npoverty!
291717
No\n\nIt should go by income brackets. Rich should pay more.
646965
To a certain extent, yes. No one really has freedom, money is power. If you aren't rich, then you have none.
953674
Control the people in order to protect the rich elites' power and privilege.\n\nThem rich folk sure are scared of the people.
380324
Unfortunately we will always have inequalities...it is the way of the world....it the way capitalism works....we have different socioeconomic statuses the haves and the have nots...someone has to work to make people richer and someone has to lead to make the masses want more things to buy...we will always have poor and will always have rich...the most unfortunate part is the gap between the two classes is growing larger.
1031036
I bet if you took a couple of starving ppl and sat them on the greedy person's doorstep, a lot of the greedy ones would shape up in a hurry. (At least temporarily.) They can get away with it now because the starving ones are total strangers and probably live far away. I guess they figure out of sight, out of mind. And the rich have NO freakin clue what it's like to be poor.