Should the rich share their wealth?

Should the rich share their wealth? We should think carefully about what we call “rich” and what we call “share” before answering this question.

So, what do we call “rich”? Usually, when we are talking about rich people, we imagine a fat person with a kilo of gold chains and rings, with an expensive car and a big house in the middle of Moscow. We call this person “a new Russian”. But not every rich person looks like that. Many of them live in usual apartments, well renovated, many of them are just usual, nice people, who earn their living… they just do it more successfully than others. This is the difference!!! And these differences make us think that they are stupid, greedy or spoilt and consider themselves higher creations. That is why many people don’t like them…

Now let’s think about what we mean by “share”. When we say this word, we usually think about giving something to somebody, right? Yes, it’s often so; but there are some little corrections: do we really want to give something to somebody if we earn it by our “sweat and blood”? Do we really like it? Of course many of us like to do it when we think it’s a sign of superiority, but on the other hand many people don’t want to even lend money, for example, because of greed… Yes, in many cases it’s the truth, but not always of course…

So, now we have a standard picture of two words: “rich” and “share”. But if we try to look on these words in another way, what should we see? The word “rich” means a person with prosperity higher than usual, but the word “share” we can understand as a “tax”! Yes, we always have to pay different taxes, right? So we share with our government! And our government pays this money to the doctors, teachers, to the police, and etc. Following this logic, we understand that all people share their wealth by way of taxes! But, not everybody can take this money; not everybody has privileges and allowances to make our government pay something. Also our country usually taxes income and rich people pay much more money than poor or “usual” people. And I think that’s the way they share their wealth.

On the other hand, rich people can share their wealth by way of charity! In this case it doesn’t matter what “kind of person” wants to do it. And, I think it’s a very good way of sharing our wealth. In conclusion I want to say that we can’t make someone share their wealth, only because this person has prosperity, excluding cases with the law.