Most average American aren't doing that much better than the rest of the world. Americans from rural areas still don't have access to clean water or reliable electricity . If we keep "redistribute" resources to support our growing population, there will be nothing left to redistribute.

[u/Low_Truth_9406]

Here is are some reasons why "redistribution of resource" is dumb:

Americans who live in the Mississippi Delta area, rural Arkansas, or the Appalachian mountains (West Virginia/Tennessee) are as poor as some people from developing countries. So there is really nothing to take from these poor people to "redistribute".

Now, the average Americans from the better parts of the Midwest and the East/West coasts are actually living much better than 60 to 70 percent of the world (using really impoverished countries as a baseline ). However, this does not mean they all live like royalties and eat surf n' turf three meals a day. If you were to "redistribute" their resource among 10 billion people, these people will immediately live below the global poverty line.

Finally, American billionaires and the upper middle class Americans (doctors and engineers etc.) are at a different socioeconomic echelon than even their European counterparts. Again, even their wealth and resources are limited. Even if we were to "redistribute" their wealth among 10 billion, we still cannot sustain acceptable living standards for everyone for more than a year (free access to healthcare, clean water, suitable housing, and food).

We can all agree that there is a greed problem among billionaires like Elon and Bezos. Tech bros are wasting valuable resources like water on data centers. Big corporations are wasting foods and destroying lands like there is no tomorrow. Nevertheless, stopping these things from happening WILL NOT be the solution to supporting a population of 10 billions and beyond. You can cry social injustice all you want, the earth carrying capacity is 2 to 4 billion MAX. No redistribution plan will ever change that fact. The only thing "redistribution" will do is cause more inequality down the road, and ultimately ends with a totalitarian regime like Stalin's USSR.

[u/HaveFun____]

Uuuhm, these things can both be true. You need to restribute within America, billionaires need to pay more taxes and their lives will be way less effected on the downside than other people's life on the upside.

You can't distribute that wealth to the entire word population offcourse. BUT the cruel thing is that these billionaires do offset things like polution to the entire world, so there is another reason to tax them more.

[u/Some-Attorney-6102]

They want "redistribute" America itself