I hadn't heard anything about Marinaleda ( it's in Sevilla). Now I've read some articles and I find it really interesting. I think it's a good social system. We should practise other different systems like that to reduce inequalities in our society, since our current system have shown to be inefficient. Thank you all for your comments.

Carmen, a very thoughtful and passionate piece! It's unfortunately true that there are huge inequalities in the way wealth is spread. I agree that rich people should be compelled to give a large part of their money to soften the bitterness that the world's poor must feel. After all, contrary to the American myth, there is no such thing as a "self-made man". We are all interdependent. We depend on the public sphere for roads, infrastructure, education, and security. It is only fair that those who have profited from these enormous benefits should give back to the society that helped them succeed. Also, particularly in the West, we have unfortunately derived much of our wealth through the subjugation of other groups: slavery, the appropriation of the Americas and Australia with little or no recompense to their natives, foreign policies meant to ensure corporate profits rather than peace in the Middle East. Have you heard of the town of Marinaleda in Granada? I thought you would find that interesting. (Please excuse me if Marinaleda is famous in Spain!) Haha, being an American, I am considered crazy for having such views :P

Yes, obviously, people who have worked hard to make themselves richer wouldn't like that the governments took their money to give it to poor people. But, I consider that it's enormously unfair and mean that, for example, football players or movie stars earn more money during a year than they can spend in a lifetime, while in other parts of the planet, people are dying or they have to manage to survive with one euro a day. It's not unfair? I'm not an economist or a politician, but it's obvious that governments could do things to improve this, but it's obvious that they are not interested on it. That's why I said money makes people be selfish and greedy. We are used to live in a capitalist society and we don't realise that another society could be possible. But it's just my humble opinion, I was only dreaming...

People get rich by doing productive things. Money is made by selling products or services to people who want to buy them. The easiest way to get rich is to improve the lives of other people. Bill Gates (the richest man in the world), for example, has made us all better off because of his products. Did you know that the two richest men in the world (Bill Gates and Warren Buffett) have pledged to give away 99% of their money? I don't think taking people's property (money) without their consent to give it to someone else is a solution to anything. That amounts to stealing.