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

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contribution made by each

individuals

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, the

differences

are

however

, from my point of view, should be kept

in

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a reasonable range or

otherwise

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

society

.

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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

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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

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the rich

people

especially

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in the communities where larger

differences

of

wealth

are spotted.

Besides

the abovementioned 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

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process in the

societies

in that the policies may favour the rich groups rather than the majority of the

populations

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. Hong Kong is a typical city

that is

rich and developed in general but suffers from severe inequity

of

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wealth

distributions. In recent years

in particular

, the

majorities

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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

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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

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between

the

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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

.