What do you think of the idea of stealing from the rich and giving it to the poor

"From each according to his ability, to each according to his need" - this is the only fair method of distribution.

Well, even if some rich guys we're born like that, there still was someone that worked really hard to give him that money, so he could die in peace that he knows the dear ones have everything they want, so...The rich guys deserve their wealths, I'm not one of them, but I don't see money as an objective...Not money are making you rich my friend...They are not.

Question presents a false dichotomy. What if the rich got that way illigitimately, ex. extortion, fraud.

Robin Hood didn't steal from the rich to give to the poor. He reappropriated ill-gotten tax funds and returned property to victims. i.e. he stole from theives to give to the robbed.

As for the real underlying question, that of whether justice or social justice (aka 'equality') is more important, that socjust advocates have to append a prefix to a laudable ideal should be telling. Fuck 'equality'. Progress is made by making humanity greater, not in making humanity equal.

I don't know about the rest of the world, but unfortunately here in my country, it's mostly those people who work hard 16 hours a day who are poor, while the people who only exploit our corrupted system are getting rich :/ Excuse me if I have a hard time relating to the "rich worked hard" option.

But as far as the thread title goes: stealing is a big no-no, giving to the poor is a "yes-yes" :D

It's great as long as they give it to me

I don't like the idea of raising taxes on the rich et cetera when some of them went from rags to riches to get there. It gets pretty rare tho and most kids are born into wealth that they didn't work for and some of the 1%ers are gainibg more and more money with unreasonable methods, look at FIFA for example.
But since you can't control who earned his money rightfully and who didn't I would say yes, steal it all!
Wrote on my phone, keep the typos

Logical reasons why your poll is not accurate:

• Not every rich person worked hard for their wealth / deserve their wealth
• Not every poor person deserve money more than rich people.

A common misconception of people is that just because people are poor, they deserve money, and just because people are rich, they don't deserve their money. It's a very wrong assumption in my opinion.

In my opinion, people should to be rewarded according to their effort. Low effort = low reward, big effort = big reward. That's how the world should work, but not how the world works. In reality, financial status balance works through a mix of effort, wits, opportunity, and chance.

Therefore:

• Great effort gives you a great chance of becoming rich / successful, however it does not guarantee such an outcome;
• Low effort does not necessarily mean you won't become rich / successful, however such an outcome is less likely;
• Not every rich person had great effort in becoming rich. Not every poor person had little effort in succeeding in life;
• Rich individuals who had little to no effort in becoming wealthy do not necessarily not deserve their wealth;
• Not everyone has the same opportunity, better opportunity results in increased chance of one being successful;
• Chance plays a role - determining whether an attempt/effort will be successful, whether or not you will come across good opportunities in life; or a random event will make you wealthy (or not);
• Great effort leads to greater potential in coming across better opportunities - In the end, you're still subject to chance, but long story short, the harder you try, the more likely you are to succeed.

Governments shouldn't raise taxes for rich people, and lower taxes for poor people. They should always be the same for everyone, and social investments always focused in giving the poor better opportunity -> the paradox here is that it is economically impossible for no one to be poor. Unless we drop capitalism, which is not happening.

Depends on the person in question. Not every rich person inherited huge amounts of wealth and lives to squander it all to have a lavish lifestyle. Just like not every poor person deserves to get money handed to them just because they are poor. Yes, I feel some people don't really deserve the money they have but also some poor people don't deserve any kind of help handed to them. There are poor people who would rather sit around hopping for people to give them something than work and earn money the hard way. I do hope the difference between the rich and the poor was not so great. I believe the 75 richest people in the world hold 50% of the worlds wealth or something like that. It's late night so my brain is not fully functional, so I will leave it here.

our monetary system is specifically built so the rich can steal from the poor, more specifically, people with money invested in banks.
we live in a world where banks are allowed to loan out fictional money, charge interest on fictional money, and then take away your actual stuff if you dont pay back the fictional loan they gave you with real money. (or well, simplified anyway, fractional reserve banking is a bit more complicated)
so yeah, if you steal from anyone who owns or partially owns a bank, and the money ends up with someone who does not profit from banking, then i wouldnt even call it stealing.

My name is Andrew Ryan, and I'm here to ask you a question.
Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?
"No," says the man in Washington, "it belongs to the poor." "No," says the man in the Vatican, "it belongs to God." "No," says the man in Moscow, "it belongs to everyone."
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible.
I chose... Rapture.
A city where the artist would not fear the censor; where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality; where the great would not be constrained by the small!
And with the sweat of your brow, Rapture can become your city as well.

Nah. The plebs should know their place :^)

Yes, I'm generally in favour of a welfare state. Even in highly capitalistic societies the richer one is, the more tax they pay (in general). This money helps the poor in some ways, be that through investment in infrastructure, public schools or medicine or whatever.