Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk do a ton of objectively bad stuff, but I just want to be clear that the mere act of holding onto that much money in a world with this much inequality is in itself a brutally evil action, and alone makes them bad people.
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you're literally just this tweethttps://twitter.com/haircut_hippie/status/804186152471265280 …
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And you apparently think that Musk and Bezos have that money sitting in a piggy bank somewhere, not entirely reinvested into hiring people to try and create more stuff

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Austen my bud I know how money works but if you think they have it entirely reinvested into hiring people and creating stuff, then let's be clear: you don't.
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As a percentage, how much of their net worths do you think is sitting in a bank, and how much do you think is already redeployed (or just a market cap calculation that was never realized in cash in the first place)?
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It’s not about whether billionaires invest their money or put it under the mattress. “But they contribute to the economy!” doesn’t mean it’s morally right for any one person to have astronomically more power than everyone else. It’s anti-democratic, at its core.
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We invented democracies to avoid having kings. Billionaires may not wear crowns, but functionally, they are about the same. No human is a million times better than any other, and it produces worse outcomes for society to pretend otherwise.
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Disagree. Someone having more money does not make them better. People become billionaires when they create billions of dollars of value. I’m OK with that.
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