it is wrong for a few people to be very rich while others are very poor! Is this statement true?
374702
IT IS NOT WRONG, IT IS JUST THE LIFE THAT WE WERE BORN INTO.\n\nJUST BECAUSE YOU ARE RICH OR POOR, MEANS NOTHING IN THIS LIFE OR THE NEXT. JESUS DOES NOT SEE OUR MONEY, HE ONLY SEES OUR HEARTS.
662938
In my experience the Best people do not think about being better than anyone else. They just do the best they can. Whilst money can help in many situations it is not a measure of the quality of a person. Many people overcome poverty to be great achievers.
863855
I am poor. I am below poverty level, which is not very pleasant. Do I feel poor? No. I have 3 children, 6 grandchildren, and the internet, and a car,and music. My soul is happy. Money doesn't really mean much. All the important things in life don't have anything to do with money...so I guess I was wrong. I am very rich.
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.
193541
If you start from the idea that in an (albeit unrealistic) "fair" world, everyone would have equal money, then if some people are going to be richer, some people have to be poorer. For some people to have extreme wealth, others must live in extreme poverty.\n\nI don't have a problem with some people have more money than others - some people have better skills, more motivation, more luck, but the gap between poorest and richest is too great and growing all the time.\n\nif this is for a social science project, you should mention Marx, and some more modern Marxists, Socialism, social policies (taxation to achieve redistribution of wealth) etc, all the way through to the New Right
561959
no, because the majority of people always want more than they have and the way to get more then you have is to enlist capitalism.  For example, if you are smarter than Juan and you work harder then Juan, but you both are paid the same, you will be upset and not like the system. You want to be paid for being smarter and working harder.  That's capitalism.  Unfortunately, we don't live in a pure capitalist society and it's about who your parents were, what connections you have, who is in power, all of which skew capitalism.
802947
made them richer,others poorer
468629
The word rich is an attitude thing, I was orphaned at 9 and now over 50 years later would be considered poor by some and rich by others. The real measure is not how much you earn each week, it is what you do with it that counts and rich to me is making a decision about what kind of life style you want. I now do not need to work as I have enough income from savings, investments and properties i own to generate a modest income and am happy with that. If you have a lifestyle that only needs $200 a week to maintain and you earn $201 without having to work you are rich, if however your lifestyle demands $250 and you only earn $201 then you are poor. Simple really.
134099
No, wealth is earned or inherited, not distributed. As long as there are people who feel entitled and not willing to earn what they want, they will continue to commit burglary and theft. There are wealthy criminals also.
60057
Absolutely. But it is not correct nor pleasant.  It is disrespectful to call anyone crazy.  The only thing that divides the rich and the poor is those that wish to talk about how they differ.  Some of the richest people in the world are the unhappiest.
182058
Rich get richer, poor get poorer.
268510
I agree it not fair at all.\nIt sux that there is so many people starving all over the world,I can honestly say that if I was rich I would be doing my best to do something about it.\nThe rich keep getting richer and the poor keep getting poorer! \nThere is no balance the world really is a sad place.
291717
No\n\nIt should go by income brackets. Rich should pay more.
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.
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OH MY GOD!!! I was just thinking that today.\nI had read in a tabloid that there are approx 798 BILLIONARES. But they never mentioned the poor. If there are so many rich people, then couldn't they spare a little to help out a fellow human being?? Even save some starving people from sure death?\n\nNO all they want is more and more money (most of them)!!!! How selfish and stingy is that?!\n\nPEOPLE, DONATE TO THE POOR. Don't you think that it is shameful that a person that has very little is more generous than a person that has more than his share? THINK ABOUT THAT PEOPLE AND START CHANGING...
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If anyone thinks the rich are hard working.. you either don't know any of them or you are one and you don't know that other people work much harder...\n\nThat being said... Bush equates taxing the rich to communism and socialism... and people run away saying it's bad and evil... \nNo... it's fair... I pay my taxes and they should too... but most of them get huge breaks and loopholes... that my friend is crap...
615582
Oh what bullshit about "Gods way of making us work hard..." blah blah blah...the majority of rich people were born rich. Alot of it happens because of the goverment, and location. There's many factors...but don't bring something like GOD into this. What a lame ass answer...