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Charlotte W - I object to my comments being referred to as "witticisms" !


I was not trying to be funny at all. My points were serious - as serious as they could possibly be, given what you'd written.


You were proposing that people who've made a Billion should be despised.

But with no other reason given than they have more money than you.

So half a Billion and they're in the clear from our hatred ? If they just get HALF a Billion do we, you know, sort of half-hate them ?


Your premise seems weak and unjust. Perhaps like a 15yr old's idealistic view.


Most Billionaires I'm sure have worked at it.


Mainly you get what you work for.


If you're peeved that you're not richer, there may still be time for you to climb the ladder and make something of yourself. Then you can give it all away as you've suggested you would.


But, I was NOT being "witty" !

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I thought ?money/assets? your words, were wealth which is why I used the word in my response to your original post. If we can send men to the moon, put up satellites to spy on people and build the internet, I don't think it is beyond our ability to find a way to divide up the world's wealth. Unlike you I don't believe that if the world's wealth was distributed equally things would be in 10 years? time roughly the same as they are now. The reason is that many people who suddenly come into a fortune one of the first things they do is buy a home. They may then proceed to buy a car, go on holiday or go travelling, pay for a higher education etc. If everyone received ?30,000 that would give most people the opportunity to buy their own home and what is wrong with that? While ?30,000 may be a considerable sum it is not going to last a lifetime so people would still have to work.



So how would you define wealth then, if not money/assets?


So you think that it is quite possible for someone to think up a way to divide the world's assets evenly, but have no real ideas on how to do it yourself? Nor any thought about the problems such an approach would hit?


You've not really thought this one through, have you?

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