I know if I had 106 million, there would be 0 homeless in Cali and LA
I know I would have a fuck load of people with houses now, food and water that could work for me building more of the self sustaining houses for others and by the end of it we would all have backups.
106 million of golf my dood, what the fuck is that?
No TimeBits, once again you think naively this (socialism = forced redistribution of wealth) would work, it doesn't.
give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime
Problem with socialism thinking, is that it always looks beautiful in the theory. Why are the poor hungry, why don't you
let them eat cake? As the Portal game writers correctly pointed out:
The cake is a lie...
Lets bring your fantasy to reality. What if you give each homeless a home, what happens next? A worrysome percentage of them would sell them for cash, and go back to the streets!
I have seen it here, under a socialist regime that threatens you with prison doing so, and yet people do it. Its "legally" impossible, and yet it happens... As many many many foolish things that occur, and occurred in former socialist countries.
IT DOES NOT WORK.
If you become a billionaire, think of ways of advancing the world. As many posters have correctly pointed out, charity is but a temporary relief that gets quickly burned away without actually solving anything. You have to bring something that changes the conditions of life, such as ways of improving their economy so they don't depend on you in the first place. Could be something old fashioned and selfish like starting a business in that country nobody else wants to, giving jobs, maybe transferring intellectual property etc.
Pay attention to the likes of Elon Musk, his company Tesla designed one of the most efficient electric motors, and used a defensive patent to release it for anyone wanting to use it (very much like free and open source software). He also happens to have a vision to move humanity to electric cars and even go multi-planetary, while most rich people simply burn their riches until they die and their kids waste it all (unless the State seizes most of it first because of "
reasons").
One could argue that billionaire gave to jobs to the Yacht builders and all its related business... Did he order the ship to be built (or bought) in a country desperately needing money? Even that subtle thinking helps.
If the State intervened so that no rich man could ever choose where they can spend their money, there won't be any Elon Musks advancing anything. The State is incredibly wasteful and quite often corrupt. No better way to have money burnt into nothingness that handing it to the State.
It is correct from you to bring to the public attention of how shameful they should feel wasting money in yachts, public opinion is important, but you have to respect their choice of remaining to be selfish anyway, else you enter the path of socialism, where private initiatives disappear, and State initiatives simply never come. There is always more important to do, such as feeding the poor, or giving them homes... Of course if the State gives you everything, there is no need to be bothering with work, beyond whatever is minimally required to "look" good. Besides, even if you made it rich somehow (impossibly) that State would seize it in the name of the revolution anyway, so why bother?
I hope you come to realize what kind of society this produces. You could take a look at history...
Not saying selfishness is good, or capitalism perfect, far from it. But solutions won't ever come by
force, never forget this every-time you think forced redistribution of wealth would "
fix" anything at all. People has to chance by themselves and on their own will, not against it.
