Poverty is not the problem - one can live a frugal fulfilled life without luxuries as long as you have food, necessities and friendship. Like Epicurus said. The real problem is luxury, infinite wealth and dreams of avarice. No one needs multi-million dollar bonuses and the rest of the world should not pay for a tiny minority to laud it over the rest of us. There should be a maximum wealth limit. If people really want incentives, there could be revolutionary guards who could provide death threats for those who need urging to work - not the (fictional) idle poor but the parasite rich.
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