The question isn't just why one person should be so much wealthier than others, but why should one person be able to dictate the labor of millions? By what right?
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When we talk about excessive wealth disparity, we should ask simply: what is money? What is $100 billion dollars? It is the power to, at a whim, hire one million people and have them spend their lives doing whatever you ask them, for three years. That is more power than Kings.
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Everybody knows money isn’t happiness. But ...money can buy a nice yacht filled with hookers and, I know no one who owns a yacht filled with hookers who isn’t happy.
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I am willing to disprove this argument, given the chance.
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those who have billions don’t have billions in the bank; the billions are usually already invested in businesses and projects, enabling people who very much want to do the things they have been asked. the billionaire is a decider through wisdom, not tyranny
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It is not the money per se that is evil in of itself. It is the influence it can buy amongst the corrupt to change the rules against the poor and it is the status that fools bestow upon it. At this point $$ is no longer a sign of productivity but a means to control the free.
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This is essentially what they do. They hire people to produce more wealth than they're paid, enriching themselves ever more. To hire as whimsically as possible, using their power to ensure that poor people have to keep taking their awful low paying jobs just to survive.
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This is maybe the worst take I've ever seen from a philosopher, and I read the Meno twice.
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The million people ain't doing it for free. They are getting the money for it.
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