• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    Any individual that wants to horde so much money and wealth that could satisfy the lives of millions of people is not a good person.

    It’s like having a million sandwiches and thousands of hungry people around you … but you’d rather keep all your sandwiches and screw everyone else, even though you will never be able to physically eat all the sandwiches you have in a lifetime.

    Being a billionaire is not a sign of intelligence, it’s a mental disorder and a person who lacks human empathy.

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      3 months ago

      Modern age dragons, sitting on their hoards while occasionally burning a peasant village to keep those dirty plebs in line.

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      3 months ago

      A billion dollars distributed to 1,000,000 people is $1000.

      All the wealth billionaires in the US hold is not enough to pay for the government to run for one year.

      Let’s not pretend giving away all their wealth would fix all of our problems.

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        3 months ago

        What makes more sense in a society? One person who controls a billion dollars or a thousand people with million dollars?

        The billionaire locks up all that wealth and it doesn’t do anything for anyone … sure it might make someone even more money but it essentially locks away that potential wealth from a larger group of people.

        If you had 1,000 millionaires, then they would all go out to perform all kinds of other activities and businesses that would be smaller but at least benefit even more people.

        Driving wealth to smaller and smaller groups of people only drives more and more wealth to fewer people while everyone else suffers.

        Redistributing millions or billions of dollars might not change much … but at the very least it would be a hell of a lot better than what we have now.

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          3 months ago

          The billionaires have their wealth in businesses, it’s not locked up. People don’t just put a billion in a savings account