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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Because the way our society is structured means that richer people have more avenues to get even richer, whereas poorer people face more risks of getting poorer. For example:
* if you are rich, you can put some of your income into investments, which will make you money without you having to do anything
* if you are extremely wealthy, you can use your wealth to promote politicians who will cut your taxes and fund propaganda campaigns to convince ordinary people that this is a good thing
* if you are poor, you are likely to live in substandard housing in an area with lots of pollution and crime, and are therefore more likely to develop health problems or become a victim of crime
> cause if everyone was getting 10k USD per day
Well, clearly that would be an extremely disruptive thing to do, but there have been plenty of more serious proposals to share out wealth. Some have even been implemented to a limited extent (e.g. progressive taxation). There are two fundamental problems, though. First, people who are currently wealthy generally want to protect their privileged position and prevent something like this from happening. Second, how do you structure this society so that it works effectively and defends itself from the emergence of a new wealthy class?
I’d point out that the main objection people seem to be making in this thread – that if everyone were paid the same, nobody would become a doctor – is completely unrealistic. Many prestigious, highly educated professions are actually not that well paid, particularly for the people in the lower echelons. There are even some fields in which it’s normal for people to start off by doing unpaid internships. But people still go into them because they want the challenge, the presitge, and the interesting, varied work. It would likely be more difficult to get people to go into dangerous and unpleasant jobs. But there are various possible ways to deal with this. You could have a job-sharing system where some people get especially desriable jobs for part of the year and undesirable ones for the rest of the time. Or you could vary the material rewards that people get from work a bit – just not to the point where some people earn many thousands of times as much as others.
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