@Rajk999 saidThat's not the problem.
How much of the wealth should the top 5% have then?
The issue how this wealth disparity came to be. The vast majority of the time is for unethical reasons: tax dodging, exploiting workers, bullying smaller businesses, etc.
Simply having wealth is not the issue, it's why.
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@vivify saidTell me one time and/or one country, region in the history if the world when there were not wealth disparities.
That's not the problem.
The issue how this wealth disparity came to be. The vast majority of the time is for unethical reasons: tax dodging, exploiting workers, bullying smaller businesses, etc.
Simply having wealth is not the issue, it's why.
As for your 'how it came to be .. sounds like business all over the world. I suspect the reasons for wealth inequality far are more complex and most of the time it is pure laziness and stupidity on the part of individuals and groups of people who simply want a free ride ie do the bare minimum to survive and then complain when others succeed, and prosper. In other words, jealousy.
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@Ponderable saidI've long thought it a real shame that the "Debates" forum is de facto exclusively reserved only for political issues. Meanwhile, the "General" forum is for...what exactly? Pissing in the wind?
There is a "Debates" Froum for political discussions.
beware it is a hard place to be.
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@Soothfast saidI agree with you, so people who have non-political topics to debate, should get it started.
I've long thought it a real shame that the "Debates" forum is de facto exclusively reserved only for political issues. Meanwhile, the "General" forum is for...what exactly? Pissing in the wind?
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@Chuck-2 saidOk, you need to do some reading up on what causes poverty. Try Google. Poverty is not caused by the rich, neither by right-wing nut-jobs. So you need to find some other scapegoat.
@Rajk999 as old as my tounge and a bit older than my teeth,a paid up member of momentum.
Poverty are the individual level is mostly the end result of
- lack of education and training
- broken homes often without a father
- poor health and laziness
- drug / alcohol addiction
- early pregnancies
At the national level
- lack of direction, or corruption of the government
- lack of resources, and know-how.