Taking wealth away from the rich and giving it to the poor can’t solve our societal problems

Question from the Internet:

“If we take all the money from the rich and give it to the poor, will it solve the problem of poverty?”

No, it would not.

This social experiment was already conducted before from 1917 onwards starting with the Russian, October revolution until the collapse of the Communistic regimes in Russia and East-Europe in 1990. And as we know it turned into terrible oppression of people, to terror states.

There are many problems with this notion.

First of all not all “rich people” are evil, not all accumulated wealth in an immoral, exploitative way.

Second, money, wealth is not the problem, whatever we do there will always be richer and poorer people as we are all different, we all have different abilities, different conditions and most of all we are driven by very different level of desire, hunger to get what we want, the different willingness of sacrifice to do everything in order to get what we want. And as we learned from history we can never suppress, erase this hunger, desire in people.

Poverty, inequality in Human societies comes from our inability, lack of knowledge of how, on what foundations, what values to build Human societies on. All the ideologies, philosophies, systems we tried so far have been “blind guesses” and they all failed.

What we need to understand is what desires, motivations, intentions, and forces drive us inside.

Each Human being is driven by an insatiable, egocentric, self-serving, and self-justifying desire for fulfillment. We all feel that we have to succeed, survive at each other’s expense, as Human beings are born without the instinctive sense of “mutual guarantee”, instinctive mutual integration that is prevalent in Nature.

Thus we all try to get by according to our innate abilities, hunger for fulfillment, readiness to sacrifice ourselves or others for that fulfillment, to get what we want. This renders Humanity according to a pyramid model, the most egoistic, selfish people being on top with the less egotistic, less selfish people remaining below. And the “peak” of the pyramid inevitably starts using, exploiting the lower part of the pyramid for their own selfish profit, benefit.

And as we have seen through history this unfolds regardless of what “ism”, ideology, the system we use, it happens even today, though in a much more sophisticated, advanced way. But we all know about the so-called “1% against the 99%”.

This means we cannot build a fairer, just, peaceful, progressive, and sustainable Human society without understanding and then harnessing, controlling the instinctive desires, urges, intentions in us.

We also know that we cannot suppress, erase the Human drive, the selfish ego as it will only rebound with a violent reaction. So we need a unique, purposeful, and practical educational method, which can help us understand, recognize our inner drive, and then give us the tools of harnessing, channeling it.

In a perfect Human society, we will always have people who are richer and who are relatively poorer, there will always remain social layering as we are all very different in myriads of ways.

But as long as we make sure that wealth is not excessive but it is justified according to one’s mutually responsible, mutually complementing contribution to society, as long as we make sure each person has their own, unique, most optimal, irreplaceable role towards society and they receive exactly what the need, deserve for such a role, and that people can move up and down the social ladder according to their contribution for the wellbeing of the whole, this just social layering will be accepted, justified by all.

This is to an overnight change, understanding it will take time and precise, methodical preparation. But we do not have a choice. If we do not start proceeding to rebuild Human society on Nature’s integral template — all the above is copied from Nature’s integral blueprint — we will continue sinking into ever deeper crisis until our “global boat” will sink and we all — from the poorest to the richest — will drown.

This is not dictated by ideology, philosophy, or religion, but it is dictated by Nature’s unforgiving, “iron” laws that control the whole Natural system — including Humanity as one of the species in Nature.