But wealth would have to be equally distributed on a regular basis or else the poor would end up poor again once they spent all of their wealth on plasma tvs in every room, surround sound systems, new cars, designer clothing, dvd machines...

>There was a show on PBS a few years ago about a community that lived on the fringe of desert in northwest india. The desert was incroaching year after year on the farmland of the community. Finally one man had had enough of everyone bemoaning the loss of land and livelihood and decided to do something about it: he began to plant trees. Soon everyone in the community was planting trees. In a short couple of years the desert spread was halted and a few years after that it was in retreat. This man said 'If we are going to make it, we will make it together or not at all.'
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>I agree, we would need to include developers worldwide. What is the alternative? Every job that can be outsourced to a second or third world country will continue until first world workers are willing to work for wages level with the rest of the international workforce. This could be a tough couple of decades for the average person in the developed nations. But at some point balance will be reached. I read someone theorizing that if the entire wealth of the world was equally distributed that we'd all be living at a level somewhere about the average worker in the early-to-mid 70's Soviet Union. Poorer by far for us in developed countries but better by far for most people in the world. Starvation would be ended, twenty thousand plus children would not be dying every day from hunger. Terrorism would, for all intents and purposes, disappear.
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>And what of the super rich and richer industry leaders and their paid governments? Hegal once said something like this: the fall of every advanced civilization was due to the excessive indulgence of their first princples. Free Markets, competition, capitalism - those are our first principles. 'The bottom line' was once a standard for offering good products at a good price but now is a euphemism for better profit margin. And where does this take us? Why to 'Brazil.'
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>Apologies for the rant.