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.
That sound to me much more like a lazy person than a rich person. Some people really want to be rich so that they can do nothing a be served by someone else. However, not everyone in the world is that lazy. There are people around who NEED challenges to feel alive. You say "
But then, WHO on Earth would maintenance these robots ?". Well, there may be some people that could find this activity enjoyable, because they may be interested in perfecting things, to develop new ways, even if it is for making the robots to maintain themselves in the future. You say: "
Doctor? But hey wait, NO ONE on this Earth work, so we have no doctors". But who said that a person may not be voluntairly interested in taking care of other people´s health, because, maybe they are fascinated by the human body, by physiology, pharmacology, etc? Did you ever watched Dr House? Suppose we make him a very rich person. Well, he love medicine anyway, he love the challenges in finding the diagnosis, solving the puzzle. Will he be just sitting the entire day waiting for someone to serve him? I dont think so. Not every person in the world can be rich as you say, but do this mean that we can´t seek to reduce scarcity, to provide the basic needs for everyone in the planet, to give freedom to people, so they can pursue a purposeful life? If we can´t make everyone a big fat rich lazy man, doesn´t mean we can´t seek to have a better world with better conditions for everyone.
