!!Theoretical Question Time!!

[Fleurette]

Hmm...on second thought, let's kick away race and country...and while we are at it, eliminate the richest and most influential people from the equation, say, people who earn more than 35-50k per month?

Hrmm.. Salvation is a harsh path no matter how you look at it.

[EpicurYeen]

We get to control the land because we earned it with our powerful high tech flags. If you people had thought to put colors on rectangles of cloth and stick them on poles you could have had control of the land.

Are you quoting Eddie Izzard?

Eddie Izzard - Do you have a flag?

[Grace]

All arguments should be backed up by Eddie Izzard -- he has the best hilarious insights.

[Drake Wingfire]

Hmm...on second thought, let's kick away race and country...and while we are at it, eliminate the richest and most influential people from the equation, say, people who earn more than 35-50k per month?

35k/year is actually pretty... par even 50k is by no means rich. Thats pretty much wiping out the entire population except people under 30 years old when you think about it.



As for this entire topic as a general, to propose such a question and start it off with talking about a race, the impending result was honestly asked for and should have come as no surprise. This is why many forums make it a no-no to make topics about religion, race or even in extreme situations, politics. These are all topics people have VERY STRONG feelings about. One must not simply assume that every discussion will be sunshine and lollipops and that there is only one right answer to a question, or that everyone will agree with the original poster as well.

[Tef]

I sold off my Sociology 300 level textbook last year...my memory has betrayed me as well. Would it be 250k?

P.S. I really hope KJ is trolling.

[Nibi]

35k/year is actually pretty... par even 50k is by no means rich. Thats pretty much wiping out the entire population except people under 30 years old when you think about it.

This is sort of related: Money VS Happiness.

I believe the max should be 75k, since that makes sense, if more money doesn't make somebody any happier, then it's a good cap off. Not to mention it's still a large sum of money. XDDD

[Sevrin]

I think that scale is influenced greatly though by the societal belief that money = success in life and the more money you have the better you are, also that happy people are more likely to make more money because they are more likely to have the energy needed to go to school, to perform well in the workplace, and other positive effects of being happy.

I think that killing people off that have high income would also be a bad idea and you would need some kind of magic to keep the economy balanced, like the god originally mentioned in the first post would have to personally micromanage stuff, because there would be no higher ups, nobody to organize things and everything would divulge into chaos, however chaos would also be a result of massive amounts of people dying regardless of who and why.

[Drake Wingfire]

This is sort of related: Money VS Happiness.

I believe the max should be 75k, since that makes sense, if more money doesn't make somebody any happier, then it's a good cap off. Not to mention it's still a large sum of money. XDDD

Thats rather interesting :O

Damn, with that kind of income I would seriously have to think what to spend my money on and in the sense of "gee what do I want", getting a house would not be some dream either.

[J.R.Bear]

Are you quoting Eddie Izzard?

Not a quote. Quoting is verbatim repetition. That would be a similar anecdote arrived at though what I would assume to be similar paths of thought.

[Tef]

I believe I could condense my point into:
Some people are so deep into poverty that the only thing they own is the economy money. (Your mileage may vary)
You can have every capital and concrete product in the book and yet you wouldn't be happy.
Yeah, you own the land with your, shall we say, little coloured flags, but this sort of historically traditional ownership is temporary. With information circulating faster than the progress of society and the economy, social movements can make themselves known quite boldly.