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"Theoretically the best system would be a benign dictator, i.e a genuinely nice person, rules exceptionally well and fairly, but just happens to have canceled the elections. Only problem is human fallibility, people and systems have a tendency to try and shape the world around there way of dealing with it, rather than adapting to an ever changing world. \n\nThe main problem is the lack of resources. We do not have the resources on this planet to truly give everyone an amazing life. People suggest that we should redistribute resources so that everyone can survive. This ignores the fact that the western culture, and lifestyle has produced the most advanced technology and the best living conditions the human species has ever seen. Until we have the technology to provide unlimited resources, there will always be inequality and starving people, but it will be a person from a culture that is using more than its fair share of global resources who finally solves world hunger. \n\n So no, capping wages won't solve world hunger, it will just stifle growth. Why hire more workers to make more TV sets if you can only sell 100000 before the government starts taxing at 100%? Your basically trying to force people to be nice by making them all suffer. If you want to change how a culture acts, you need to change the way it thinks and talks (see: Sapir-Whorf). And the best way to do this would be to indoctrinate children with the ideal of altruism and hard work. This would only be possible in a society that is far more repressed than ours is now, (or maybe about the same, but in a different way), which brings in to question the idea that the relative freedoms of western society (and lack of religious oppression) have been a major influence of its dominance over the rest the planet. \n\nYou have to decide what you want, everyone to live in kinda ok-ish conditions forever, never really doing anything more than surviving from day to day. Or a select few to live in technological luxury as a evolutionary gamble that one day we might all live in space ships at the grand old age of 1000. We tend to focus on the suffering of the few when we should be focusing on how to make our entire species live better lives than we do now. "
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