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I agree. Many people uses money and/or influence to bend things to their will, including laws, so that they can do whatever they want and trample through whomever they want.As soon as you are "allowed" to commit any crime because you can pay any penalty without really impacting your own funds.
There are many billionaires that didn't start out as billionaires via inheritance - including the one currently at the top of the heap, Musk, so your statistics are simply a lie. Exploiting can be negative or positive - you exploit an idea, you fund someone's idea, you work with others to progress joint ideas. As for inheritance, do you think that money should be redistributed to people unrelated to the person - they did nothing to earn or deserve it - or, worse, give it to a government that will squander it and use it in the most ineffective way and line the pockets of politicians?People saying about earning through work or their own intelect, but almost no billionaire did it that way. 99% of the time the money came from inheritance or exploiting others.
I agree. Many people uses money and/or influence to bend things to their will, including laws, so that they can do whatever they want and trample through whomever they want.
Those are everywhere, but it is especially a very american illness that people think "ah well, I could be rich one day", while living paycheck to paycheck, so they fight against things that could actually make their lives better on the one in 10 million chance that they get lucky...All you richie-rich lovers seem to think your ship is about to come in and you'll be on easy street. Well guess what, the rich got theirs and in countless cases, they pulled up the ladders to keep the little people like you and I from being able to join them.![]()
It's not a billionare's fault people are unhoused or hungry. They're an easy target, but rarely the problem.You cannot earn a amount of billions trough "decent" work. Overall I would say the system is the problem more then certain rich people, it propagates all this "more more more", no one needs a fucking billion to live, hell, no one need 100 million... tho, if no one in the world would starve anymore and everyone had decent acess to some proper housing ect, then I wouldn't care much if some have massive amounts... but yeah, as long as people starve to death I think billionaires shouldnt exist.
Those are everywhere, but it is especially a very american illness that people think "ah well, I could be rich one day", while living paycheck to paycheck, so they fight against things that could actually make their lives better on the one in 10 million chance that they get lucky...![]()
As soon as you are "allowed" to commit any crime because you can pay any penalty without really impacting your own funds.
There are many billionaires that didn't start out as billionaires via inheritance - including the one currently at the top of the heap, Musk, so your statistics are simply a lie. Exploiting can be negative or positive - you exploit an idea, you fund someone's idea, you work with others to progress joint ideas. As for inheritance, do you think that money should be redistributed to people unrelated to the person - they did nothing to earn or deserve it - or, worse, give it to a government that will squander it and use it in the most ineffective way and line the pockets of politicians?
Yours is an argument of jealousy - you didn't get an inheritance and you haven't had an idea or been able to invest in a way that has made you wealthy, so, fuck it, be a Marxist and eat the rich. That's a lousy way to maintain a productive society: ask the Soviet Union, China and North Korea - oh, wait, you can't ask anyone in those last two because their governments will disappear them if they show any open dissent.
You cannot earn a amount of billions trough "decent" work. Overall I would say the system is the problem more then certain rich people, it propagates all this "more more more", no one needs a fucking billion to live, hell, no one need 100 million... tho, if no one in the world would starve anymore and everyone had decent acess to some proper housing ect, then I wouldn't care much if some have massive amounts... but yeah, as long as people starve to death I think billionaires shouldnt exist.
Edit: Adding this quote from @idontdreamwhenisleep69 after I've posted. Because... Well... It kind of IS their fault? Maybe not 100% their fault, because nothing is ever 100% the fault of anything - the world doesn't work in absolutes. But they contribute massively to the issue. If the wealth is in their pockets, when people around them suffer, does that not raise a moral question? When governments or healthcare is going bankrupt or raising prices... Does that not raise a moral question? When they're buying up homes, because they can afford homes, and other people are unhoused? Does that not raise a moral question? When they spend thousands on a single meal, when other people starve, does that not raise a moral question?It's not a billionare's fault people are unhoused or hungry. They're an easy target, but rarely the problem.
When people use money to buy stuff other people will receive that money to produce it, if the rich waste their money on shit it doesn't matter because people will capitalize on that to earn money, it is not a waste or a bad thing, people having more money doesn't prevent others from having what they need, the entire supply chain of the product earns to feed their families with that money, the idea of Karl Marx that the economy works as a zero sum game is wrong, what is truly wrong is the way some rich people gain their money.Also, people with more money tend to consume far more than their share of resources. Think multiple cars, multiple houses (mansions, which are more house than anyone needs), multiple yachts (more boat than anyone needs), private jets and helicopters, and the list goes on.
Also consider the fact that capitalism as it is currently structured depends upon constant growth. We do not have infinite resources or space to fuel such growth. Capitalism is inherently unsustainable and eventually leads to overconsumption and collapse. Greed will kill us all. But go ahead, enable tyrants like Trump, Putin and Le Pen. I'm getting tired of living anyway. I just wish everyone else weren't coming with me.![]()