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Kasz216 on 03 January 2014
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hysterianut said:
Kasz216 said:


Because he could buy 100 times more then he could before.

really,then why doesn't everyone own 100 houses and 100 cars and multiple private jets?

Human psychology has nothing to do with wealth, or the definition of wealth.

not with wealth but it does have a lot to do with how the economy works.

if you give individual an incentive to work for,then he will

if you tell him that all people are gonna be equal and everyone gets free medical,education,food.

then the individual loses the incentive to work

Silly marxist interpretations don't really play out when it comes to actual economics...

not perfectly but in all they are,the entire world is in debt with the socialist policy of the last 100 years around the world

USA,UK,Europe,Eastern Europe,India,China,South America,etc

and even marxist's wouldn't be so childish as to assume that it's always a 1-1 direct thing.

really that is why we had close 100million people die in the last century because of marxism.

and no.... people can afford WAY more then just basic needs.

what do you mean by basic means.

basic means are different for different people.

for a rich hard working person,a bmw,a 10 thousand sqft house,a country club membership,etc will be basics

for a less ambitious and poor person just a house and food to eat might be basics

 

and if you are saying that people could afford more than basics then you are wrong.close to 80% of the world's population lives on $2 a day,i don't think most of them can afford more than basic or even the basic.

 

 

 

Way more people survive now in the past... sure... and way more people can afford way more luxuray items too.  We're in quite the luxuary item boom.

why are you hell bent on survival?

;ife isn't about surviving but thriving and being happy.

luxury items?

luxury is a state of mind,it changes from time to time.

 

if 100 years ago,car was a luxury then now a big house,cars,private clubs,etc are luxuries.i don't think the percentage has changed much.

 

you seem to be comparing today with the past.as the world changes and classes also changes.

 

you can't say a car today is a luxury cause they are so cheap.so you are comparing today with the past



1) Because houses are way better now.  I mean shit.  I'd rather have one townhouse then 100 peasent huts.

 

2) Thank you for admitting human psychology has nothing to do with wealth, and that i was right.

 

3&4)   Wait... so your AGAINST socialism?   You do realize your interpretation of wealth is an old old marxist theory right.

As for the 80% of the worlds population living on less then $2 a day.

First that's wrong... by about 35%

http://twodollarchallenge.org/

And second, that's waaaaay less then there ever was before adjusting by PPP

and third... thanks to purchasing power.  Those people can afford a lot more then someone in a rich country.

 

5) Because far more people couldn't surivive not that long ago, talk about other things is rather meaningless when basic survivial isn't a given.

Outside that.  Property ownership is up, luxuary spending is WAY up, developing countries are all developing quite well...

Wealth really has grown everywhere.  Between this and the 80% comment it feels like you have a false sense of what foreign countries are like.  Still picturing africa as nothing but a bunch of villiages etc.