Thanks for your thoughts. Your first paragraph is one that would be hard to dispute. You make a lot of very valid points that I’m sure are right on target.

You might lose a lot of folks with the “communism” idea, though. What you describe in that paragraph is surely an interesting concept that might work in some places. But, of course, the very word “communism” has such a stigma attached to it, getting supporters on board with it would be a struggle, I presume.

Thanks again for your thoughts. Much appreciated.

I think that the only real way to bridge the gap is communism, but tried implementations of communism have never worked due to the greed of the common man. In Israel, there are small villages, called Kibutz, that have some form of communism. They all live together and all share the responsibilities of the community. Money is put together and taken by a member of the society only when they need it. This, I think, is probably the closest anyone will ever come to communism, and it will certainly never be achieved here in the U.S.