Some people believe that the best way to produce a happier society is to ensure that there are only small differences between the richest and the poorest members. to what extent do you agree or disagree?

To what extent the rich people are richer than the relatively poorer people would be salient enough to affect people’s perception of whether or not they are leading a happy life?

This

topic has always been under intensive discussion among researchers from economics and social studies. While I suppose no one would deny the fact that income differences are inevitable in any

society

due to the differences of contribution made by each

individuals

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individual

, the differences

are

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are, however

however

, from my point of view, should be kept in a reasonable range or

otherwise

it would create a series of social problems, namely a less happy

society

.

Although

the absolute value of household

wealth

will directly affect the level of happiness of a family as it determines their disposable amount and

therefore

their living standard.

However

, human societies are much more complex than separate individual households. Comparing in between each other is one of the many things that everyone naturally does and may cause emotional consequences if the differences of household

wealth

are too big. Take the United States

for example

, it has long been scolded by economists and social scientists that the US societies are stratified into too many levels in which 80% of the

wealth

is in the hands of only 10% of the entire national population. As a consequence, a lot of the crimes, including kidnap and robbery

in particular

, would take place because of an ill mindset of revenging to the rich people especially in the communities where larger differences of

wealth

are spotted.

Besides

the

abovementioned

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above mentioned

potential emotional impacts, the unreasonably big gaps of social

wealth

might bring other negative influences, which could be even more profound and detrimental, to the societies. When the majority of the money is in the hands of the top levels of the pyramid in a

society

, it would jeopardize the rightfulness of the decision making process in the societies in that the policies may favour the rich groups rather than the majority of the

populations

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population

. Hong Kong is a typical city

that is

rich and developed in

general but

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general, but

suffers from severe inequity of

wealth

distributions. In recent years

in particular

, the majorities of the people found the government only made policies that were in favour of the big companies and real-estate industry despite that they might be in conflict with the

well-beings

a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous

wellbeing

of the majority.

This

has led to a less happy

society

in Hong Kong, which gave rise to increased protests and even strikes in the affected industries.

Although

it is unnecessary and unrealistic for societies to eliminate the differences in between the rich people and poorer ones, it does not mean that we should tolerate these differences to be

exaggeratively

big as it will bring a series of severe social problems that may lead to an unstable and unhappy

society

.