Poll on Wealth 2

[Ken Burch]

"To what degree do you believe that we, as a society, actually NEED people who have acquired great wealth?"

Corollary questions for discussion: Do you believe that we might be able to run this country, and this world, without catering to the wishes of people who have acquired great wealth? Could we manage to make a decent life without them, or, at least, without treating them as if they matter more than the rest of us?

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	people with great wealth are more important than anyone else in creating a functioning economy and society.
	0 (0%)
	People with great wealth are somewhat important, but not necessarily more so than the rest of us.
	1 (25%)
	People with great wealth are as important as the rest of us, but not more so.
	3 (75%)
	People with great wealth are less important than the rest of us.
	0 (0%)
	People with great wealth are of no particular importance or necessity to our lives at all.
	0 (0%)
	0 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[BlueJazz]

1. As important but no more. We live way too short lives to matter much except to us.

[Panich52]

2. It's long past the tine we enabled a class system

Would the wealthy be that way w/o the needy to do their work?

[Ken Burch]

3. Enabled? Or simply acknowledged?

Why do so many people in this country pretend we don't have a class system?

[Panich52]

4. Yes, acknowledged is more correct. I think I meant stop enabling.

1% seem to want to maintain feudal system. But like the lords then, and 'barons' of Gilded Age, it was those peons that enabled lords' privilege by doing all the work.

That's why unions and their bargaining power so important.

[hunter]

5. The oligarchs ought to be taxed out of existence.

They might not be any happier for it, but the rest of us would.

The spread between the wealthiest among us and the poorest among us should be a multiple probably not greater than twenty.

That is, the lowest income person pays no income taxes, and the highest income person pays 100% on anything over twenty times the minimum annual income.

If the minimum annual income is $10,000, then the highest possible annual income would be $200,000.

That gives highest income people a great incentive to support higher minimum incomes.

There's no realistic prospect of anything like this being implemented in the U.S.A., at least not until the current rotten system collapse under it's own weight or as a consequence of some major catastrophe.