True Meritocracy

This would be too easy to get round - just gift a large chunk of your money to your children when you hit 50 or something and keep just enough to have a comfortable life.

Yeh thats why I said that unfortunatly if the system were to work you would get monitoring of peoples financies to make sure they arn't lundering money. This would be carried out in much the same way as Echelon operates (computers monitor it most of the time) so as to minimalise undue intrusion into peoples lives.

This is an extremely selfish idea, people would no longer give things for their children. Also the country would never progress as people would never be getting richer just all staying at the same level, and the next generation having to start from that level again.
This is a stupid idea, over regulation is killing this country, in short, it's my money and i'll do with it what i please even it means leaving it to my kids.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Actualy I'm getting quite a large sum of money and I've found it rather surprising that out of the people that I've told its the poorer people that object the most. My problem is that I havn't done anything to earn this money - I want a system where people have to earn things rather than just being free loaders and living off what their parents gave them. BTW - I said from the start that in todays social system the idea couldn't work - I'm jsut trying to find out what people think of it.

Apart from a few insane people like you thankfully most people do not have ideas like this, so thankfully they will never be adopted globally.

The greatest drive in all animals is to reproduce and let your genes carry on in your offspring. Go and read about a small idea called Darwinism. If you take away the right of people to provide for their children then you will have to be prepared to face a backlash created by a billion years of evolution.

Sure it may be nice if everyone lived a nice happy life, but why should I care about how comfortable anyones life is except my own and my immediate relatives?

Life is not fair. It is not meant to be fair. It will never be fair. Once you accept that a lot of things make sense. Why should everyone live a happy and equal life? Because it will make you feel better? That is not how life works, you get ahead in life through a combination of skill and luck.


The problem with any system with socialist elements, (this is socialist because it takes away money from those who have it to give to people who don't have it), is that it isn't compatible with our in built drive to provide for our families and children. I am personally in favour of scrapping all inheritance tax. Why the hell should the government get any of my parents hard earnt money? If they want to give it to me then it should be their choice, if they want to give it all to the stray cats home then that should also be their choice, but the government has no right to say what they should do with it.

If your dad talks to an accountant, he won't have to pay any inheritance tax if he starts ofloading his assets on you before he passes away.

This is an extremely selfish idea, people would no longer give things for their children. Also the country would never progress as people would never be getting richer just all staying at the same level, and the next generation having to start from that level again.
This is a stupid idea, over regulation is killing this country, in short, it's my money and i'll do with it what i please even it means leaving it to my kids.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Apart from a few insane people like you thankfully most people do not have ideas like this, so thankfully they will never be adopted globally.

The greatest drive in all animals is to reproduce and let your genes carry on in your offspring. Go and read about a small idea called Darwinism. If you take away the right of people to provide for their children then you will have to be prepared to face a backlash created by a billion years of evolution.

Sure it may be nice if everyone lived a nice happy life, but why should I care about how comfortable anyones life is except my own and my immediate relatives?

Life is not fair. It is not meant to be fair. It will never be fair. Once you accept that a lot of things make sense. Why should everyone live a happy and equal life? Because it will make you feel better? That is not how life works, you get ahead in life through a combination of skill and luck.

The problem with any system with socialist elements, (this is socialist because it takes away money from those who have it to give to people who don't have it), is that it isn't compatible with our in built drive to provide for our families and children. I am personally in favour of scrapping all inheritance tax. Why the hell should the government get any of my parents hard earnt money? If they want to give it to me then it should be their choice, if they want to give it all to the stray cats home then that should also be their choice, but the government has no right to say what they should do with it.

OK what do you people feel about true meritocracy - I made this up myself so I'll have to tell you what it is obvioulsly:
A meritocracy (we live in one now) is meant to be where individuals are given more power (in the form of money and possesions in most cases) on the bases of their merits (literal translation from Latin is power given on merit or something like that). However the problem with our current system is that people can simply inherit money, real estate and in some cases political power (The House of Lords, Royal Familey - though decling now). This undermines the very fabrique and fundamentals driving the meritocracy.

Therefore my propersision is that we do away with inheritance and instead all money on death goes to the government - this would then allow for lower income tax, VAT, etc and the money would be pumped back into society in the form of benefits, discounts for students, etc (perhaps even just devide all the money up equaly and give it to the population - to give equality). Obviously to prevent people from just gifting money to their relations before their death the government would have to monitor such personal finances.

Economicaly if this could be done it would give a tremendus boost to the economy (or so some economists have told me). This is due to the increased competition and everyone having to work for a living.

Its sort of a marrage between comunism and capitalism. In my view it combines the fairness and equality of communism with the economical benefits of capitalsim.

The question then is this: what do you think of this system of government (yes I know its idealist) - please don't discuss the feasibilities of it on their own (solutions are welcome though).

P.S - this probably isn't very well written due to me being tired.
P.P.S - critisism without reason is not welcome - please back up your ideas and don't just flame this - remember people said democracy would never work.