An Essay on the Gap between Rich and Poor - by Victor

Wealth is inequitably distributed. Many rich people keep it for themselves and they are quite greedy. I think that since the beginning of the 2008 financial crisis, the differences between rich and poor people have increased and the middle economic class has vanished.

Then we can use wealth better than we are using it now. If some of the rich people accept the idea of giving some money and not going out of the country when we increase taxes that will be easier. Then we can distribute money more fairly. We should help poor people perhaps not by creating more organisations but by helping public places such as hospitals, schools etc. That will help students and people who do not have enough money to pay for treatment.

Secondly some wealth is just useless for the rich but will help poor people. They take too much food and they often waste it and if you look, for example, at Africa, many people need food. If we cannot give that food to them, they will surely starve to death.

The vast majority of people really need money: some of them do not do anything to obtain more but others work really hard for it and they still do not get anything. While the richest people do not need to work and they still earn more in a month than I will earn in my entire life. That is why I want the wealthiest to give a proportion of their money to the lower economic classes. It is just unfair that the government does not tax rich people more than poor people.

We need to increase taxes and distribute the wealth more evenly which can help more poor people than rich.

We can tell third world countries that they can keep the food they produce instead of selling it for ridiculously low prices. For rich people wealth can be shared by giving and not taking.

Anyway we have to change economic issues for poor people. Evidently, in order to bring about the more equal distribution of wealth which we all desire, two things are necessary: firstly, that the minimum wage shall be raised, permanently, far above the level at which it now stands; and secondly, that willing hands shall always find remunerative work; and this must be done, not by charity, not by individual or local action, but by social rearrangements which will be self-acting and self-sufficing. I firmly believe that such changes are not only possible but comparatively easy, for I hold with Henry George, that at the root of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong. Let us seek out the wrong thing, and fearlessly put it right; and we shall then find that man is not so completely out of harmony with the universe in which he exists that thousands must starve in the midst of plenty, and that the actual producers of wealth in the wealthiest countries in the world must continue to live without enjoying a fair and adequate share of the wealth which they create.