Jumhuriyah Hindustan wrote:These days, I often see fashion/reality/news shows and documentaries, where the very rich live such wasteful and opulent lives.
It is up to your interpretation whether the rich do live wasteful lifestyles, as a so called wasteful lifestyle usually involves spending of some sort, which means they aren't necessarily hoarding their cash. I am also assuming your are speaking about billionaires, not the average millionaire. The average millionaire doesn't live an opulent lifestyle, which is he is rich.
They are promiscuous, lazy and are often addicted to either drugs or alcohol.
Welcome to the state of humanity. This isn't anything new. Rich or poor, people are like that.
On the other hand, I have seen beggars on the street not getting a piece of food, resorting to stealing, with my own eyes.
And what do you propose we do about that? Because stealing from the rich and giving to the poor isn't a smart way of making poor people self sufficient, and is also immoral.
In our world, the richest 1% has more wealth than the poorest 50%. They do not deserve this money
And people who never made the money themselves do deserve it?
- just look at the Kardashians, for example. They are corrupted with money and power, and have no basic morals or empathy to those in need.
While I don't speak specifically for the Kardashian's, I assume they pay a higher amount of taxes then your average poor person, which is in turn funding welfare stamps and a host of government services. Other "one percenter's" are involved in large amounts of humanitarian aide/research/donating/charity. They understand as well as anyone that once they die they aren't bringing their dough with them.
They are decadent, corrupt and are oppressive.
Great way to marginalize an entire group of people because of how much fiat currency they own.
Income inequality is the root of the countless things wrong with our world.
I would venture to say income instability is the root of countless things wrong with our world, but not the only thing causing issues. Income inequality is a metric to show how much wealth is concentrated, but actually doesn't drive human actions. People don't wake up and decide they are going to shoot up a mall because Bill Gates has 70 billion dollars. People wake up wondering whether they will be able to get money to feed their family. I don't venture to say it is Bill Gates problem, I don't venture to say it is their problem entirely, I venture to say it is nobody's problem. Doesn't mean we shouldn't help poor people become self sufficient, but it doesn't mean we should steal and give the stolen property to people who did not do anything for it.
We should be focusing on teaching poor people to sustain themselves economically instead of living off of government freebies. We should be educating, providing job opportunities, and creating a secure environment. Frankly, that is where our focus should be.
What do you think, NSG? I believe in socialism, and ideally, communism, so it may just be my bias, but I want to hear from you guys.
Your premise that billionaires are exclusively evil is ignorant of the rest of society as a whole. Communism is a failure because it fails to recognize that mankind never has been, is not, and will never be "good" (however you define that).