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.
