What would the world look like if all the poor people in the world disappeared and only the upper class elite remained?

The material world must follow the third law of thermodynamics: when the temperature of the material world tends to a stable equilibrium state (no more poor people), there is no more entropy increase, forming heat death. When there is no more energy exchange, the forces that make up the universe will be annihilated, even gravity will no longer exist, and the material world will die. So a utopian world is impossible to come.

Assuming that the yield of crops remains unchanged, then the remaining people will multiply in large numbers, the baby boom will be born, and it will be normal to have ten or eight brothers and sisters in a family, and then the population will gradually increase after rapid growth. Separate different classes. As low-skilled jobs are replaced by machines, people who would otherwise be working in low-skilled jobs may become idlers, supported by welfare or their families. In other words, the state will deliberately arrange some dispensable, low-skilled jobs for them to engage in.

This is indeed the case when science and technology stagnates. If we supplement the social progress brought about by the explosion of science and technology, it is actually a spiral process. After all, the quality of life of ordinary people is now better than that of the landlords in the Qing Dynasty. Well, going further, at least in China the slave class, which had no human rights at all, has been eliminated.

But this situation will not exist forever. It is similar to the unstable state in organic chemistry. It can only exist for a period of time and then rearrange. Then these elites soon discovered that the things they produced could no longer be sold. They had been using them for hundreds of years. When they were angry, they could no longer find any subordinates or employees to vent their anger to. They could only vent to their family members, trees, pets, etc. Talk to yourself. The relationship between the elites has become better than ever before. There is no longer mutual contract fraud, internal and external collusion, yin and yang contracts, forced mergers and acquisitions, and malicious speculation. They sang together, got drunk together, traveled to mountains and rivers together, and wandered into palaces together. When all the carnivals came to an end, they finally came to a terrible realization that human beings are slowly dying!

In order to prevent this terrible situation from happening, they began a crazy plan to create humans. Gradually, with their efforts, the number of humans returned to a considerable number, and once there were more people, class differentiation began again. The most important thing is to sell your goods to the proletariat. This is called taking from the people and using them for the people. If the proletariat disappears, then the capitalists will no longer exist, or if they assume the role of both the proletariat and the bourgeoisie, currency will be meaningless. Wouldn’t that mean communism? Therefore, some people with relatively small assets will still be reduced to the proletariat (your means of production cannot produce wealth value) and be exploited by the big bourgeoisie.

Have human beings made progress or regressed from primitive society? Human beings have invented a lot of material civilization, as well as a lot of spiritual civilization. When Marx saw various phenomena in capitalist society, he picked up his pen to criticize the bloody nature of capitalist society and put forward a beautiful vision of socialist society and communist society. Do you think there have been good or bad changes between modern capitalism and the capitalist society of that time? First of all, the bottom class is not willing. It's just that there is a loophole in your setting of willingness that people who are not willing enough to meet their situation will not fulfill their obligations, although the standard of willingness should be that people will take the initiative to fulfill their obligations.

The real risk in treating the subaltern in this way, then, is that the stress and violence of the subaltern can accumulate as antisociality. However, the existence of any society with a subaltern presence depends on adequate obedience from the subaltern. Please note: Although society does not necessarily require the bottom to work, it cannot be avoided that the bottom does not engage in destruction. And because the emergence of the bottom layer is built into the pressure transfer phase of the involution, the number of bottom layers will not be negligible.

A country that distributes money on demand is doomed to be unsustainable. Because organisms and community evolution are caused by competition. If there is no elimination mechanism, the entire country and community will soon collapse. As human beings, distribution according to needs cannot satisfy desires, let alone satisfy the desires of hundreds of millions of people! For example, the forest is so big that only one tiger can eat. When two come, one will be eliminated first. You can kill a tiger, but you cannot create a forest.

I think the paradox is that, first, resources are limited, and second, the nature of human nature is bestiality. Of course, some people want to argue that with the deepening of education, people will become more and more wise, or with the development of science and technology, humans can colonize the universe. But regardless of whether we can colonize the universe, if humans lose their humanity and become what we call gods or robots, then the meaning of human existence will be lost.

Since the founding of the United States, everyone has not had to worry about food and clothing. The reason why American people seem to generally live an elite life today is because the United States can use foreign markets to support the elite life of the United States. ?The bottom layer of ? The elites need to be supported by the bottom, which is determined by the current level of science and technology.

The reason why the United States can enjoy such good materials is because it sucks blood from all over the world to provide the United States with high-quality and low-price products. The question is, when the poor people around the world disappear, who will provide them with these high-quality and low-price products? Cheap product? Besides, the high income in the United States is based on the control of high profits. Without low-profit manufacturing, where would the basis of high profits come from?

The reason why the idea of ??respecting private property arises is that class has not been seriously solidified, and everyone can see the room for class improvement.

When classes gradually solidify, vested interest groups will defend this view, and many people will accept this view out of habit. When social conflicts intensify, we will see who still respects private property. After so many years of Chinese history, people still have not been able to change their minds.