Sad as it may be for you and those who can only dream of such money yourstruly included, they earned that money and have a full on right to spend as they see fit. Even though you or I may think that is BEYOND CRAZY they see it as something they want.
You know same can go for you having 1000 dollars and someone who is poorer than you seeing it being wasted on that Starbucks coffee and that new pair of shoes when your old pair still fit and have no holes.
Some people spend their extra money on memories instead of physical items. While some believe if you can't hold your purchases and/or isn't something that is needed than it isn't worth buying. Even if it does bring joy.
So long story short you truly have no right to judge someone for what they buy just because you yourself can't do it as well.
(Unless it is something harmful to themselves, others, or something like animals.)
Well yeah, I don't judge [rich] people for what they buy, but the richer you are, the more you should [be taxed or donate] for the common good, so that your (hopefully non-corrupt) government who collects those taxes can be more proactive in fixing structural problems/disasters it has the ability to fix.
Taxes and how people spend money are 2 different subjects. But I do believe that if you have more you should give a larger percentage. And that you should be asked to donate a percentage to a charity of they're choosing. Entergy is a text to ductable thing so it would be good for the economy if more rich people donated more.
There should be a maximum wage. No one should ever have more money than they can spend in a lifetime it's pointless. I'm sick and tired of people defending the ritch and large corporations! This is fucking bull shit we could end would hunger, homelessness,war if we could just separate resources from money. Why waste something that could save someone's life to just make more made up points in a centurys long game!
But people should be able to make more than they need to live. We have a right to make more so we can do things like pass on money to family. My dream is to one day tell my mom "As long as I am alive you will never worry about a bill or worry about not having enough food. You will live happily and never worry again."
I would give anything to be able to do that.
Plus if there was a limit to how much people can earn than no one would work past that mark.
Why spread your company with more stores if you can't earn any more?
Also spending on luxury items will stop. Like having the latest phone will stop it will all go back to the basic flip phone model.
Clothing will be all the same. All back packs and shoes will be the same. Why make different designs when you can't make more for doing so?
There should never be a limit but there should be a minimum. And the minimum should equal to how much inflation grew.
Hay I get that you would like to be able to to support people but even that has a point where you can make more then you can spend. I'm definitely not saying that maximum wage should be 30k a year more like 1m ( open to ajustment) with that you could still be ritch but not sucking the life out of the economy ritch.
We as humans thrive of luxury purchases. That is how the world really runs. If it wasn't for them we would look like well like The Giver. Everything bland nothing extra only what we need. Yes people would be fed and have a warm bed. But look at the true cost. To control the population they only allowed assigned woman to give birth. If there was a multiple birth the killed one. Everyone had no real emotions. They never wanted for anything other than to grow, get a job, marry, be assigned a kid or two, and die of old age. Forgotten and live for nothing. That is not Utopia. That is order.
It will always be saddening to know there will always be hungry and homeless. But to see someone thrive and tell them they have no right to it is wrong. We can ask they contribute more to the world but you or anyone else has no right to say you can't have more money just because others don't.
I am not rich by any account but I would never stop someone from what they earned legally.
What you and moast everyone is failing to understand is money isint a natural resource we made it up it's literally just a game and when we are all to into a game to probably distribute the leftover food and housing then we as a race are no better than a mother or father too obsessed with a mmo to feed there baby.
Look I get it not everyone can have a lambo or a yatch and I'm not saying that there is anything wrong with having or wanting that. What I am saying is a system that lets people starve when there is enough food or be homeless when there is plenty of empty houses is a bad system and should be fixed or replaced.
There wasn’t anything there to imply a handout was desired- more like musing. But it is still interesting none the less. A lot of people talk about what billionaires could do for others, or what others could do with some fraction of their wealth to improve things. A college student, a recent grad living at home, a young broke person, etc.... what could others without what they have do with it? What of the person who doesn’t have someone to live with while they try to afford their own way? Someone who doesn’t have the opportunity to go to school? Someone who isn’t young or relatively healthy? The person with the dog or family or romantic partner that may sometimes or often take that for granted? We look at a $3,000 lamp and see waste- but most of us squander things every day that would change someone else’s life don’t we?
I mean- a couple hundred dollars a month on coffee or cigarettes, some concert tickets or a sports game, a new purse or jacket or toy... for the price of the gaming console or robot vacuum or “smart door bell,” for the difference between a “slow computer” and a “good computer” you could “change the life” of someone somewhere in the world. Essentially no one NEEDS to see a movie in theaters or watch a sports game and collectively ticket sales etc. for those are hundreds of billions a year. One might say it is ridiculous that we collectively have the ability to transform the lives of villages or entire countries but we spend it on “Transformers 27: robots Are cool.” So we aren’t so different in principal from that billionaire. We do the same thing but on a smaller scale- but we tend to think more about how THEY are frivolous with money than how we are.
It's all a matter of perspective. Such extravagances do seem unreal to most of us. But then, a lot of the things I spend money on (ie. $100 to see a concert or a football game) would seem just as wasteful and selfish to someone homeless on the street. My $100 could make a world of difference to a family without water. It's all relative.
You know same can go for you having 1000 dollars and someone who is poorer than you seeing it being wasted on that Starbucks coffee and that new pair of shoes when your old pair still fit and have no holes.
Some people spend their extra money on memories instead of physical items. While some believe if you can't hold your purchases and/or isn't something that is needed than it isn't worth buying. Even if it does bring joy.
So long story short you truly have no right to judge someone for what they buy just because you yourself can't do it as well.
(Unless it is something harmful to themselves, others, or something like animals.)
I would give anything to be able to do that.
Plus if there was a limit to how much people can earn than no one would work past that mark.
Why spread your company with more stores if you can't earn any more?
Also spending on luxury items will stop. Like having the latest phone will stop it will all go back to the basic flip phone model.
Clothing will be all the same. All back packs and shoes will be the same. Why make different designs when you can't make more for doing so?
There should never be a limit but there should be a minimum. And the minimum should equal to how much inflation grew.
It will always be saddening to know there will always be hungry and homeless. But to see someone thrive and tell them they have no right to it is wrong. We can ask they contribute more to the world but you or anyone else has no right to say you can't have more money just because others don't.
I am not rich by any account but I would never stop someone from what they earned legally.