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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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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It is not just OK. It is precisely how US became so prosperous and will stay that way. The chance of hitting it big motivated many of the inventions on which we all depend: like our massive food supply and this social network we are all bitching into. Nevertheless, too (cont'd)
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much old money was made off slave labor and raping the earth. Too little new & old money is used to address social & environmental issues. Bezos has focused millions on the former. Musk has focused billions on the latter. But obviously more of this wealth must be channeled better
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We became the most powerful nation on the planet by having a shit load of natural resources due to having a very diverse climate across the country. AND we allowed oppressed people to enter. If Hitler isn’t an anti-Semite than Einstein probably gives Germany the atom bomb...
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The Soviet Union had just as many natural resources as the United States
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But Austen is right! Everything billionaires do is to help the poor! Like when they buy private jets, it’s to get poor people motivated to become rich and buy a jet of their own!
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the 2008 stock market crash was actually good. it taught poor people to stop being poor
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fuckin saaaaame
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Their money is invested in companies. Money doesn't grow much in foreign bank accounts
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Realized capital gains. Makes up a very small part of their wealth, most of which is just paper.
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Have you ever heard of the “fixed pie fallacy”? A person becoming richer does not have to mean that another person becomes poorer.
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