If you took all the money in the US about 6 trillion dollars and divided it up evenly between every American, 300 million, each American would receive about $20,000.00 USD. Even doubling the 6 trillion to 12 trillion would only increase each person's amount to 40k.
This number may or may not astound you but that is the reality of the situation. How long would 20k last you? What about 40k?
Money seems to find its way into the hands of the best people that can properly manage & utilize it. It doesn't happen by accident and there is no grand conspiracy to "steal" it from the average person.
I said it before and I'll say it again, money is a tool which serves as a unit of exchange between two entities for products or services. Nothing more, nothing less.
If it takes you 6 hours to paint an oil painting which you can subsequently sell for $60 NZD, then the unit of exchange between your labour and "money" is $10 NZD per hour of your labour.
If I earn $600 NZD in 2 hours then the exchange between my labour is $300 NZD per hour of my labour.
Why people feel they or anyone else should be entitled to any portion of my labour (for free) is rather silly and senseless but that partially explains NZ's 40% tax rate.
But to put it into a simpler context. Imagine if a billion dollars ended up in the hands of a person who didn't care about tax laws or how money was earned, spent, managed or invested.
Imagine what society would say, "my goodness, that person has a billion dollars and doesn't care one bit about tax laws or spending the money wisely....shame on her. She really is annoying with her attitude."
or how about, "wow, she had a billion dollars and blew it all on community art; imagine how many poor people could have been fed with all that money"
or how about "wow, she gave all that money to feed the poor and now they've all gained 30 kg but they're still poor because they don't know how to earn a living"
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