Just imagine. If ALL OF US would be rich, that means we would live our lives out from dividends, or any passive income of at least $1k a month. Then it would be jawesome, right ? Well, but then I do have a question.
WHO on this Earth would bake the bread for ALL OF US ?
Robots, you might say?
OK, nice idea.
But then, WHO on Earth would maintenance these robots ?
Another robots ?
I don't think so.
Even if so, even if there would be a Skynet of robots, who would not just bake the bread, but also harvest the grains, transport it, deliver to our doors. What then ?
We could eat for free, as much as you want?
Cool, but what about overweight then.
Doctor? But hey wait, NO ONE on this Earth work, so we have no doctors.
OK, we have Doctor Robots.
Who would teach our kids? Robots! Who would change the diapres? Robot!
Even if humans would master all this, we would need to have all the knowledge to teach our robots to work for us. To be slaves for us. (no minds, just pure robotic hands/arms and so on, Tesla's and autopilots)
But even then, there is one huge problem.
I do not want to touch any country, or race, or group of people, but imagine, if you put infinite amount of resources to any kind of animal (including humans), they would reproduce themselves to infinite. Because they simply can. Because parents do not need to parent their kids anymore, because we have robots! So we would need a limit of reproducing, no right to reproduce as much as you can handle (infinite resources), because we would simple have like 50-100billion people on this planet, and there would be no robots who could grow so much grains to bake bread. (perhaps hyper dense pills could be the away).
So, back to the original question, why do people believe, they all can be rich ?
It was, is, and will be, ALWAYS about that who is going to earn more, not enough, but more than the others.
Why?
If there is only one mansion on the Bahamas, which is large enough, sunny enough, sexy enough, there is no freaking way, ALL OF US could buy it. Just one. 1. One. And if only 10 buyers come with their million, to who would seller sell this mansion to? First ? But second also have million and ALL OF US want to be rich (own that one mansion). So second would have to offer 2 million, right?
Wrong.
No one would want to sell such mansion in the first place, as he is already rich. We all are.
This is the whole point of civilization. It is only a matter of time before everyone is rich. Think about it like this. Compare to 10000 years ago as caveman, you are rich right now. You have heat running water and food stamps. Compare to even 10 years ago. 10 years ago the rich were all getting crazy about PalmPilots. Now even poor people have 5 iphones way better than PalmPilots. If a poor person could time travel 10 years backwards they would be rich. The main thing is ego delusion, America is so obsessed with materialism that they dont value people any more. Most people have enough food not to starve, but it is not enough to be viewed as a valuable person to society. But once the wealth reaches a certain threshold, people will lose interest in materialism and take interest in people again. Mainly because, the new tech will be more focused on person-upgrades rather than wealth upgrades, for instance tech that can make you live longer and more beautiful, or alter your personality, this will increase the value and social focus on actual persons rather than plastics.
In the future there will only be two social classes, rich and wealthy.
The rich people will have 4 or 5 girlfriends, 15 IPODs, 3 cars, a nice suburban 2 story home, built by robots. In their spare time they will exercize and do art, and they will not be fat. Bill Gates is not fat, Tai Lopez is not fat, so why would rich people be fat. If someone is born ugly they will be able to change to beautiful, through advanced cellular technique. The average lifespan will be 120 years. The average IQ will be 120.
Then their will be wealthy, living in mansions and farms of 1000 acres. They will have a base in the Citadel, but live in the country. Some rich will live in small apartments in the Citadel, where the wealthy have offices. The wealthy will have 20 girlfriends, and 10 cars. The main difference between the rich and the wealthy is that the wealthy will have more power over what airs on the News.
Then there will only be two classes, the rich and the wealthy. All of Africa will be civilized and world poverty will no longer exist. Although, Africa will still be poorer than the rest of the world, however their huts will be converted to trailer parks.
There will still be some jobs, such as artists, and mechanics, philosophers, and programmers. The world will no longer be ran by politicians, but philosophers.
Mark my words.