Just 8 men own same wealth as half the world - page 4.

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Quote from: Klima on January 21, 2017, 08:34:11 AM

Quote from: mainpmf on January 21, 2017, 08:22:47 AM

Quote from: Sithara007 on January 20, 2017, 06:22:57 AM

Quote from: onrise on January 20, 2017, 12:54:36 AM

This disparity is creating a lot of difference. There should be some extra taxes on such billionaires so that they can contribute extra to the welfare of the needy people

Can't agree with any such measure. Are you going to punish them for being able to make money? If you do so, then they will simply close their factories and stay at home. Millions of people will lose their jobs and the government will receive a much reduced tax revenue.

OMG just shut up and kill yourself stupid sheep ><
It's impossible to discuss with someone actually thinking that someone earning billions CAN DESERVE IT ><

I do not like those who earns a lot of money and spends it on their well-being. From them no good. In order to enrich themselves they take them from others. However, they are so because society allows them. Who is to blame?

Thank you this is interesting.
The question you added is the right one. Who is to blame? I would just add "what should be changed?"

Those people are only partly responsible that's for sure. The whole society is built in giving them more and more, they would have to make huge effort to change the society... Into a society less favorable to them. That's not logical ^^
So I'm not saying we should just kill them all sure... Those just living in this system well they did nothing wrong. Nothing good but nothing wrong.
Problem is that lots of them are using their power and wealth to continue abusing the system and transforming society into something more and more unequal.

And THAT is a crime.
A crime for which they should be punished.

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Quote from: mainpmf on January 21, 2017, 08:22:47 AM

Quote from: Sithara007 on January 20, 2017, 06:22:57 AM

Quote from: onrise on January 20, 2017, 12:54:36 AM

This disparity is creating a lot of difference. There should be some extra taxes on such billionaires so that they can contribute extra to the welfare of the needy people

Can't agree with any such measure. Are you going to punish them for being able to make money? If you do so, then they will simply close their factories and stay at home. Millions of people will lose their jobs and the government will receive a much reduced tax revenue.

OMG just shut up and kill yourself stupid sheep ><
It's impossible to discuss with someone actually thinking that someone earning billions CAN DESERVE IT ><

I do not like those who earns a lot of money and spends it on their well-being. From them no good. In order to enrich themselves they take them from others. However, they are so because society allows them. Who is to blame?

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Quote from: Sithara007 on January 20, 2017, 06:22:57 AM

Quote from: onrise on January 20, 2017, 12:54:36 AM

This disparity is creating a lot of difference. There should be some extra taxes on such billionaires so that they can contribute extra to the welfare of the needy people

Can't agree with any such measure. Are you going to punish them for being able to make money? If you do so, then they will simply close their factories and stay at home. Millions of people will lose their jobs and the government will receive a much reduced tax revenue.

OMG just shut up and kill yourself stupid sheep ><
It's impossible to discuss with someone actually thinking that someone earning billions CAN DESERVE IT ><

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Quote from: Sithara007 on January 20, 2017, 06:22:57 AM

Quote from: onrise on January 20, 2017, 12:54:36 AM

This disparity is creating a lot of difference. There should be some extra taxes on such billionaires so that they can contribute extra to the welfare of the needy people

Can't agree with any such measure. Are you going to punish them for being able to make money? If you do so, then they will simply close their factories and stay at home. Millions of people will lose their jobs and the government will receive a much reduced tax revenue.

Doubt it. They won't stop and stay home because they would make a little less money. Didn't when the tax rate was up to 90% for the top bracket. But more important it's not shoveling billions or trillions of dollars into half a dozen guys that creates jobs. It's demand. It's having a functioning economy where people have enough money to spend and do so. That is a healthy economy. And not only do corporations and the rich evade taxes as others said but they are just sitting on trillions of dollars at the moment. That money could easily revitalize the economy and improve our lives if they invested it instead or it was taxed.

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Quote from: Sithara007 on January 20, 2017, 06:22:57 AM

Quote from: onrise on January 20, 2017, 12:54:36 AM

This disparity is creating a lot of difference. There should be some extra taxes on such billionaires so that they can contribute extra to the welfare of the needy people

Can't agree with any such measure. Are you going to punish them for being able to make money? If you do so, then they will simply close their factories and stay at home. Millions of people will lose their jobs and the government will receive a much reduced tax revenue.

The trouble is that usually such people do not pay taxes in full. An example of this Trump. He will now demand taxes from others if you do not pay them himself? The problem is that only the poor pay taxes.

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Quote from: onrise on January 20, 2017, 12:54:36 AM

This disparity is creating a lot of difference. There should be some extra taxes on such billionaires so that they can contribute extra to the welfare of the needy people

Can't agree with any such measure. Are you going to punish them for being able to make money? If you do so, then they will simply close their factories and stay at home. Millions of people will lose their jobs and the government will receive a much reduced tax revenue.

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This disparity is creating a lot of difference. There should be some extra taxes on such billionaires so that they can contribute extra to the welfare of the needy people

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8 people with the same wealth as 3500000000 people. Insane.

Quote from: Real5real on January 17, 2017, 02:28:42 PM

The system is rigged and nothing will happen until enough people are so deep in shit that they can't handle it anymore and the revolution begins.

That or the rich and powerful turn to fascism to stop people from fighting back. Why not? Has happened before. And they already support it in other countries when convenient for them. They will do the same to their country if it means they continue in power.

Quote from: The-Accountant on January 17, 2017, 04:42:04 AM

It has always been the same, and it will always be the same. Nobody will or can do shit about it.

Get hundreds of thousands or millions of people in the street calling for change. Start with getting money out of politics.

Quote from: audaciousbeing on January 18, 2017, 03:21:00 PM

If that is true then I dont have problem with that so far they made their money and they are not stooping anyone from making his own.

That is part of the problem. They use their power and influence to make sure they stay ahead. No matter the cost to everyone else. Smoking causes cancer? Let's fund propaganda that says otherwise. Climate Change? No, that is just a conspiracy. The government doesn't let them form a monopoly or cartel? Bribe the politicians. Etc.

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that's the reason why the world is imbalance. life is always unfair. they keep on recieving money but they dont give. maybe you would say that " that is business " but you know. just to balance the world if you have kind heart then you should give tot those who needed.

you should pay your employees proper and based on their talents and effort. we should not just pay them on what they dont deserve.

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Quote from: v1ryspro on January 19, 2017, 01:26:38 PM

Quote from: SvenBomvolen on January 19, 2017, 12:35:41 PM

I often think how much money I need to have to buy house on very nice place, new car, house on a see, and to have money for the rest of my life for food and other things. My calculations are on 1 million euros! Thats right with 1 million I can have all this! And I ask my self what can this men do with their billions? What? For what and for whom are they making that money? Stupid people, thats is what I think about them and I wonder how they can sleep at night. Cause of this 8 people and their followers kids die every day cause they dont have food and watter, and do I need to start talking about poverty in this world? Shame on them!

They are not interested in your opinion. They have completely different costs and completely different needs. For them your million euros is not money at all. For all this, they will not give you a penny because it contradicts their ideology.

Please explain me why some rich person needs a house with 13 Bedrooms, 12 Bathrooms, 11 guestrooms? Is it interesting to take a poop in different bathroom each time? And sleep in different bed every night? This is just one example of their stupidity, and ah I to mention how in some restaurants Coca-Cola cost 10 $ or more, and in some it cost half a dollar, but people this people are paying to be seen.
V1ryspro, your nickname is hard to wrote, and cause of people like you, so called supporters of this system nothing is changing, we are where we are, and I bet you are one of the people who wish big house with all this rooms, and million other things that you will not use but you will have them. But in grave we are going naked, nobody carries nothing there.

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Quote from: n691309 on January 19, 2017, 06:55:29 PM

I haven't researched about this case but if this is true then I can say that if the money would be spread to all people in the world then there would not be poor or rich people and all would be considered equal. World populations is estimated to 7 billion so those 8 men are as rich as 3.5 billion people in the world.

We all citizens must know about this research, but we must know if it is only a research or it is not a fact. We cannot claim that there are only 8 men own same wealth, because some other people, or others save money in bank, we cannot see their true money. But it is true to spread money for poor people, to have a fair living.

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I haven't researched about this case but if this is true then I can say that if the money would be spread to all people in the world then there would not be poor or rich people and all would be considered equal. World populations is estimated to 7 billion so those 8 men are as rich as 3.5 billion people in the world.

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Quote from: Sithara007 on January 17, 2017, 05:26:52 AM

There is no point in being jealous. They became rich through their hard work. For example, Bill Gates put decades of effort for Microsoft, before the Windows OS and MS Office became popular. None of them were born with a silver spoon in their mouth.

Not all people made money through honest work.

All credits to Steve Jobs and Bill Gates though

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Quote from: youdamushi on January 19, 2017, 01:49:00 PM

Quote from: v1ryspro on January 19, 2017, 01:26:38 PM

Quote from: SvenBomvolen on January 19, 2017, 12:35:41 PM

I often think how much money I need to have to buy house on very nice place, new car, house on a see, and to have money for the rest of my life for food and other things. My calculations are on 1 million euros! Thats right with 1 million I can have all this! And I ask my self what can this men do with their billions? What? For what and for whom are they making that money? Stupid people, thats is what I think about them and I wonder how they can sleep at night. Cause of this 8 people and their followers kids die every day cause they dont have food and watter, and do I need to start talking about poverty in this world? Shame on them!

They are not interested in your opinion. They have completely different costs and completely different needs. For them your million euros is not money at all. For all this, they will not give you a penny because it contradicts their ideology.

No.
Not at all in fact.
They have different DESIRES yes.
But they have EXACTLY the same needs as you do.
That's why wealth inequality is a problem

Needs are others. They think global ideas and therefore their scope is not commensurate with yours. Every day they wrapped hundreds of millions of dollars. As humans they certainly need the same. But the ambitions are much higher.

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Quote from: v1ryspro on January 19, 2017, 01:26:38 PM

Quote from: SvenBomvolen on January 19, 2017, 12:35:41 PM

I often think how much money I need to have to buy house on very nice place, new car, house on a see, and to have money for the rest of my life for food and other things. My calculations are on 1 million euros! Thats right with 1 million I can have all this! And I ask my self what can this men do with their billions? What? For what and for whom are they making that money? Stupid people, thats is what I think about them and I wonder how they can sleep at night. Cause of this 8 people and their followers kids die every day cause they dont have food and watter, and do I need to start talking about poverty in this world? Shame on them!

They are not interested in your opinion. They have completely different costs and completely different needs. For them your million euros is not money at all. For all this, they will not give you a penny because it contradicts their ideology.

No.
Not at all in fact.
They have different DESIRES yes.
But they have EXACTLY the same needs as you do.
That's why wealth inequality is a problem

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Quote from: SvenBomvolen on January 19, 2017, 12:35:41 PM

I often think how much money I need to have to buy house on very nice place, new car, house on a see, and to have money for the rest of my life for food and other things. My calculations are on 1 million euros! Thats right with 1 million I can have all this! And I ask my self what can this men do with their billions? What? For what and for whom are they making that money? Stupid people, thats is what I think about them and I wonder how they can sleep at night. Cause of this 8 people and their followers kids die every day cause they dont have food and watter, and do I need to start talking about poverty in this world? Shame on them!

They are not interested in your opinion. They have completely different costs and completely different needs. For them your million euros is not money at all. For all this, they will not give you a penny because it contradicts their ideology.

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I often think how much money I need to have to buy house on very nice place, new car, house on a see, and to have money for the rest of my life for food and other things. My calculations are on 1 million euros! Thats right with 1 million I can have all this! And I ask my self what can this men do with their billions? What? For what and for whom are they making that money? Stupid people, thats is what I think about them and I wonder how they can sleep at night. Cause of this 8 people and their followers kids die every day cause they dont have food and watter, and do I need to start talking about poverty in this world? Shame on them!

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Quote from: Kvazimoda on January 19, 2017, 11:18:38 AM

Quote from: sportis on January 19, 2017, 11:05:28 AM

This is not strange for me. Always the same things were happened and will not ever be changed. According to the live count of Forbes, only on the last day (of count) Warren Buffet, the third richest man in the world, added US $ 1.3 billion in his fortune. Check out the ranking of 2016 http://www.forbes.com/billionaires/list/#version:realtime

Today he lost 201 million dollars. It's certainly not a very big loss if we compare with his status, but still a loss. I believe that exchange was conceived as an aid to investing, but now they are just an object for speculation.

The methodology is wrong. His net worth was calculated using the market price of the Berkshire Hathway stock. Only a small part of the stocks are in floating mode. If Buffet dumps some of his own (non-floating) shares into the market, then the price will crash.

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well that's the world, the topic about capitalism and socialism as well as people getting too much compared to others isn't a new topic to humanity at all imo

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Quote from: sportis on January 19, 2017, 11:05:28 AM

This is not strange for me. Always the same things were happened and will not ever be changed. According to the live count of Forbes, only on the last day (of count) Warren Buffet, the third richest man in the world, added US $ 1.3 billion in his fortune. Check out the ranking of 2016 http://www.forbes.com/billionaires/list/#version:realtime

Today he lost 201 million dollars. It's certainly not a very big loss if we compare with his status, but still a loss. I believe that exchange was conceived as an aid to investing, but now they are just an object for speculation.

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