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theactualcluegirl:
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blackjackgabbiani:
quasi-normalcy:
The fact that you can’t raise taxes on billionaires even slightly without them pouring money into fascist political movements is, of itself, evidence that billionaires as a class shouldn’t be allowed to exist in the first place.
You, ah, don’t think it’s unfair to judge people’s morals based on their finances?
I, ah, think that it’s perfectly fair to judge people’s morals based on the amount of money they pour into neo-nazi political movements, yeah actually.
I, ah, also think it’s 100% fair to judge someone’s morals based on their finances whether they support neo-nazis or not.
You can’t have that much money and be a good person. I’m sorry. I don’t care how many “”nice”” billionaires yall try to show me to prove me wrong.
Nobody in the history of mankind has worked hard enough to earn BILLIONS. Even if they become philanthropists, they almost solely become billionaires by profiting from the labor (underpayment, abuse, etc.) of others. How can you say “hm..they could be a morally good person..”
You also can’t be a billionaire in a country where people don’t have clean water or a world where people are starving and claim to be a good person.
There are a few people with enough wealth to end world hunger MULTIPLE TIMES OVER, yet here we are.
There is no such thing as a good billionaire as far as I’m concerned.
Nobody is deserving of that much money.
Nobody has earned that much money.
Nobody can sit on that much money and claim to be a good person.
I have spoken with Nobel prize winning physicists. I have spoken with their colleagues. I have worked with people who have led teams to make discoveries that twist my mind into knots. I have worked with scientists whose concept of hard work and dedication would beggar the belief of a robot. I’ve gone to talks led by scientists who head forty-people teams, synchronizing the efforts of others so efficiently I could scarcely believe it.
These are people whose life works exist entirely in conceptual space, where the limits of what they can achieve are only their And they are impressive, don’t get me wrong, but few of them would I value more than a team of decent scientists. The amount of skill, intelligence, and diligence required to outwork even half a dozen of your fellows is pushing the limits of human ability.
Even Albert Einstein, famed example of the brilliant lone scientist, was not that special. I’ve read his papers in detail, and those of his contemporaries (took a class on it actually). Without him the discovery of general relativity would have been delayed two or three years at most, the mathematical and conceptual groundwork that enabled his brilliance was laid down by others and being investigated by others as well. And I’d pit a decent team against Einstein any day of the week, an individual can only do so much.
For the amount of money Jeff Bezos earns working for a day, $215,000,000 (x), I could hire a thousand such hardworking geniuses for a year. Maybe ‘only’ a hundred if they were from an exceptionally competitive and valuable field.
For the money Jeff Bezos earns in a year, I could hire a village. I could create a project with so many educated minds it would be larger than the Manhattan Project. About a dozen times over.
No one is that irreplaceable. No one has a percent of that worth. If someone is a billionaire, they are earning beyond their contribution to society, at the expense of other’s well-being.
So yeah, fuck billionaires.
Holding onto quantities of money that it would be impossible to spend in a normal human lifetime when people die every day is also evil.
Like Imagine having 10,000 cheeseburgers in a room, you literally cannot eat them all. You *can’t*. You eat them for every meal and they’ll all go bad before you make even the tiniest dent in their absurd mass. And into the room walks 1000 starving people. *Literally* starving, actively dying of hunger starving, and you don’t give them some cheeseburgers.
Look. I have wealthy family and for a brief period of my life? My nuclear family was securely upper middle class (a parent who made 6 figures a year) although that is well and truly over now.
You can have money and not be evil. You can make a few million in your life through legitimate hard work on your own part and save it and not use it all and have it make sense, numerically.
But when you hit the Bs? Nah. No. Sorry. If you are staying a billionaire and not giving and being taxed enough to drop back down into multi-millionaire status?
You’re no longer a person.
You are Smaug the Terrible wearing a flesh suit and I’m not surprised you are involved in global warming because what do western dragons do but hoard and burn?
J. P. Morgan – the most unbleievably wealthy man of his era, the dude who personally inspired most of the anti-trust laws of the early mid-century in the US – J-fucking-P-fucking-Morgan himself, if his wealth were translated to modern scale?
Would not be a Billionaire.
Just fucking sit with that for a minute or two.
It’s posts like this that make me want to burn them all.
franks23:
theactualcluegirl:
dancinbutterfly:
firebirdeternal:
crazy-pages:
xprmnt626:
quasi-normalcy:
blackjackgabbiani:
quasi-normalcy:
The fact that you can’t raise taxes on billionaires even slightly without them pouring money into fascist political movements is, of itself, evidence that billionaires as a class shouldn’t be allowed to exist in the first place.
You, ah, don’t think it’s unfair to judge people’s morals based on their finances?
I, ah, think that it’s perfectly fair to judge people’s morals based on the amount of money they pour into neo-nazi political movements, yeah actually.
I, ah, also think it’s 100% fair to judge someone’s morals based on their finances whether they support neo-nazis or not.
You can’t have that much money and be a good person. I’m sorry. I don’t care how many “”nice”” billionaires yall try to show me to prove me wrong.
Nobody in the history of mankind has worked hard enough to earn BILLIONS. Even if they become philanthropists, they almost solely become billionaires by profiting from the labor (underpayment, abuse, etc.) of others. How can you say “hm..they could be a morally good person..”
You also can’t be a billionaire in a country where people don’t have clean water or a world where people are starving and claim to be a good person.
There are a few people with enough wealth to end world hunger MULTIPLE TIMES OVER, yet here we are.
There is no such thing as a good billionaire as far as I’m concerned.
Nobody is deserving of that much money.
Nobody has earned that much money.
Nobody can sit on that much money and claim to be a good person.
I have spoken with Nobel prize winning physicists. I have spoken with their colleagues. I have worked with people who have led teams to make discoveries that twist my mind into knots. I have worked with scientists whose concept of hard work and dedication would beggar the belief of a robot. I’ve gone to talks led by scientists who head forty-people teams, synchronizing the efforts of others so efficiently I could scarcely believe it.
These are people whose life works exist entirely in conceptual space, where the limits of what they can achieve are only their And they are impressive, don’t get me wrong, but few of them would I value more than a team of decent scientists. The amount of skill, intelligence, and diligence required to outwork even half a dozen of your fellows is pushing the limits of human ability.
Even Albert Einstein, famed example of the brilliant lone scientist, was not that special. I’ve read his papers in detail, and those of his contemporaries (took a class on it actually). Without him the discovery of general relativity would have been delayed two or three years at most, the mathematical and conceptual groundwork that enabled his brilliance was laid down by others and being investigated by others as well. And I’d pit a decent team against Einstein any day of the week, an individual can only do so much.
For the amount of money Jeff Bezos earns working for a day, $215,000,000 (x), I could hire a thousand such hardworking geniuses for a year. Maybe ‘only’ a hundred if they were from an exceptionally competitive and valuable field.
For the money Jeff Bezos earns in a year, I could hire a village. I could create a project with so many educated minds it would be larger than the Manhattan Project. About a dozen times over.
No one is that irreplaceable. No one has a percent of that worth. If someone is a billionaire, they are earning beyond their contribution to society, at the expense of other’s well-being.
So yeah, fuck billionaires.
Holding onto quantities of money that it would be impossible to spend in a normal human lifetime when people die every day is also evil.
Like Imagine having 10,000 cheeseburgers in a room, you literally cannot eat them all. You *can’t*. You eat them for every meal and they’ll all go bad before you make even the tiniest dent in their absurd mass. And into the room walks 1000 starving people. *Literally* starving, actively dying of hunger starving, and you don’t give them some cheeseburgers.
Look. I have wealthy family and for a brief period of my life? My nuclear family was securely upper middle class (a parent who made 6 figures a year) although that is well and truly over now.
You can have money and not be evil. You can make a few million in your life through legitimate hard work on your own part and save it and not use it all and have it make sense, numerically.
But when you hit the Bs? Nah. No. Sorry. If you are staying a billionaire and not giving and being taxed enough to drop back down into multi-millionaire status?
You’re no longer a person.
You are Smaug the Terrible wearing a flesh suit and I’m not surprised you are involved in global warming because what do western dragons do but hoard and burn?
J. P. Morgan – the most unbleievably wealthy man of his era, the dude who personally inspired most of the anti-trust laws of the early mid-century in the US – J-fucking-P-fucking-Morgan himself, if his wealth were translated to modern scale?
Would not be a Billionaire.
Just fucking sit with that for a minute or two.
It’s posts like this that make me want to burn them all.
