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if the worlds total land was shared equally , how much land would each person have ?
Originally posted by willie9696
Hey that's not too bad because the average yearly salary worldwide is about 7000. Sounds like a pay increase for a lot of people. Pretty pathetic isn't it.
Originally posted by TheWalkingFox
If the wealth were divided equally, everyone would have an annual income of US$10,571.
$74 trillion annual global GDP divided by a population of ~7 billion
Simple.
Originally posted by BrokenCircles
If someone else has answered this then I apologize, but all I see so far is a debate over question #1.
So I'm gonna skip #1 and go straight to question #2
if the worlds total land was shared equally , how much land would each person have ?
57,491,000 square miles: 36,794,240,000 acres.
World population clock, as of right now says there is.6,871,558,500 people on this planet.
math.berkeley.edu...
Amount of acres divided by the amount of people = 5.355 acres/person
If i'm wrong with the math, then i accept the beatings.
Originally posted by palg1
Originally posted by willie9696
Hey that's not too bad because the average yearly salary worldwide is about 7000. Sounds like a pay increase for a lot of people. Pretty pathetic isn't it.
Originally posted by TheWalkingFox
If the wealth were divided equally, everyone would have an annual income of US$10,571.
$74 trillion annual global GDP divided by a population of ~7 billion
Simple.
But this wouldn't happen annually. It would have to be a one time thing. So instead of earning $7000 every year you get $10,571 once. If you try to redistribute the wealth every year after that you would essentially be giving up any additional income made buy those who have worked hard to those who didn't. (assuming all salaries were also leveled). In year 2 you are either a burden on society or you start earning your money again. Now, because money has pretty much lost all it's value at this point your earned $7000 won't get you very far.
Originally posted by BrokenCircles
reply to post by palg1
Yeah, I thought about that part, but that wasn't what he was asking. Would be hard to grow a garden if your 5 acres were on the side of a rock cliff also. I am sure it would be done with a fair lottery drawing for everyone.
Originally posted by palg1
Originally posted by BrokenCircles
If someone else has answered this then I apologize, but all I see so far is a debate over question #1.
So I'm gonna skip #1 and go straight to question #2
if the worlds total land was shared equally , how much land would each person have ?
57,491,000 square miles: 36,794,240,000 acres.
World population clock, as of right now says there is.6,871,558,500 people on this planet.
math.berkeley.edu...
Amount of acres divided by the amount of people = 5.355 acres/person
If i'm wrong with the math, then i accept the beatings.
Who decides who gets to live in the antarctic or on the French Riviera? I want 5.355 acres to be ocean front on the Canadian west coast please. Preferably in a lower risk earthquake zone. lol
Originally posted by TheGhostViking
Originally posted by BrokenCircles
reply to post by palg1
Yeah, I thought about that part, but that wasn't what he was asking. Would be hard to grow a garden if your 5 acres were on the side of a rock cliff also. I am sure it would be done with a fair lottery drawing for everyone.
Originally posted by nrd101
No one has really brought this up but I think a community without a monetary system has been done before. And the land was equally owned. The elite did everything in their power to stop this moneyless system that had no debtors, no prisons, and equal resource division(among a community). North American Natives Or Indians.
People in power literally wiped out this way of life because they thought their's was a better way. I beg to differ. Having to keep a percentage of your population in prison because they have a debt to pay is pure savage. I don't contend to know a solution to money, land, freedom, but surely whats next cannot be worse than what we have here already. Or can it?
People with money generally think that people without it don't have it for a reason(lack of education, lazy etc.) If the ones who have a lot of money learned how to use it for the benefit of others instead of hoarding it and building their own "kingdoms" maybe then the world could be a little different. I'm not saying this is the case with your wealthy friend, but most of the truly miserable, hateful and ignorant people of this world have money and lots of it, and conversely the ones who have little(in the worlds eyes) are usually the nicest most giving people I've met personally.
Originally posted by Myendica
reply to post by TheGhostViking
i brought this up to someone who had lots of money, and they said a study was already done, and the conclusion was the world would be exactly the same within 1 year. People dont know how to use money.