do we need broke.people for the world to function? if so how many percent need to be broke, middle class or rich?

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cause if everyone was getting 10k USD per day and was rich the value of money would be gone ofc

we have people working fastfood jobs or driving taxis barely making ends meet, could the world still function if everyone lived a comfortable life? maybe everyone was at least middle class?

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Answer 1

Of course it’s not necessary. But people like power, so we structure society in hierarchical orders and deem them meritocracy. There are quite a few board games that illustrate this and Monopoly was literally designed to show that profiteering is unsustainable. There’s a reason economies crash regularly.