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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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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