Will greed doom us all? Stephen Hawking warns our current view of wealth could ultimately cause the human race to perish

He's right

Hawking, another highly intelligent halfwit.I want my country back, and I will have it, no matter what.We will fight the enemy on the beaches and in the Large Hadron Thingy.We will never surrender.Hawking has my permission 2p off.

If I was as clever as he's supposed to be I'd have devoted my life to finding a cure for motor neurone disease.

Stick to physics and astronomy - you know, the things you actually know something about - and spare us the laughably ignorant Marxist diatribes.

Hawking is a leftist, and leftism can make the smartest people, stupid.

He a remainer and with the greatest respect has a computer strapped to his wheelchair so of course he's going to know some stuff, the computer can't teach common sense though and he's changed since he's developed an American accent.

If it wasn't for the highly 'inequitable' division of wealth, and his ability to command far more than his fair share of the Earth's resources, Hawking wouldn't stay alive for a single day. I can't stand his canting tone.

I'm tired of this guy, he's become a 'fictional' scientist who keeps talking nonsense, how about you spread some of your wealth?

Completely, totally and utterly agree.

Stick to science Ste. You obviously don't live in the world most of the rest of the population does. And take your communism with you

So, so very tired of famous scientists acting like they are experts in every field, whether it be philosophy or economics or whatever. The ONLY way to eliminate income inequality is to make everyone poor...except for the ruling class politburo masters who will be fabulously wealthy...funny how that works. But, anyway, stick to physics, Stephen. Seriously.

Not his most enlightening comment ever.

Writing in the Guardian, says everything you need to know. I feel physically sick when I see that pretentious newspaper.

Stephan, please stop. This blather is beyond your pay grade. Must you comment on EVERYTHING.

World needs a reboot. Some major global event.If mankind dies off Planet would be fine without us.

He is one of the jokers who wanted us to stay in the EU! I would only ask his opinion on maths - nothing else.

He doesn't half spout a load of obvious crap!

Better stick to Astrophysics. No man is capable of being expert on everything.

I thought the establishment said we were all going to be poor because of Brexit, and yet we still voted for it. Now we are greedy because of Brexit, because we wanted our independence and control over our own small island? A modest bit of land, and yet we are the greedy ones? Absurd. Don't blame the glove puppet Hawking, he doesn't pick the words that come our of his computer. See this this video "Stephen Hawking is a lie system puppet (Lesta 2015-05-22)" and watch the spectacle of him being fed but not eating.

if we took everyones money and property, made everything "fair" and allocated everyone the same starting cash. there would still be a "one percent" to emerge soon after, as this is just the fact that some people are more hardworking, entreupeneruial or intelligent than others.