you’d technically have a good person who was a billionaire, so my declaration would be wrong
And if we instead create a program of hyper inflation so that even minimum wage workers become billionaires overnight, the world will be filled with bad people? Or perhaps this idea is so simplistic as to be meaningless.
There are no good or bad people. There are only good and bad deeds.
I’m not going to address your first paragraph, it’s dumb.
But I will address your second paragraph. If a person commits many bad deeds they become a bad person. To become a billionaire you must commit many, many bad deeds. Therefore being a billionaire means you are a bad person.
Even if you believed you could become a billionaire by committing nothing but good deeds, being a billionaire requires you to have a billion dollars. Having a billion dollars over any period of time means you’re committing the bad deed of inaction. Not helping those in need, not giving away your excess money, not changing the world for the better. It’s watching a grandma getting assaulted and doing nothing about it - a despicable act - multiplied by billions of people and then made distant by every dollar you keep. If you had a billion dollars that means you know your friends, and your family, and the homeless of your city, and every person you know who needs expensive healthcare or university or a home is going without those things because you and you alone choose not to give it to them. Not to even speak about the people in places our ancestors abused or the planet that’s dying or any other serious issue that could be meaningfully dented by anyone one of these billionaire assholes.
No, I disagree with your position. There are bad people, because those people commit overwhelmingly bad deeds. Being a billionaire means you must be a bad person. Hell, owning more than let’s say 20 million makes you a bad person and I think the state should tax every dollar over 5m.
That’s not the logic we’re operating with here. The GP claimed that if you’re not giving away your excess money, you’re committing the bad deed of inaction. Thus no one should have any savings whatsoever. Every penny beyond what you need to survive should be given away or it’s a bad deed.
And if we instead create a program of hyper inflation so that even minimum wage workers become billionaires overnight, the world will be filled with bad people? Or perhaps this idea is so simplistic as to be meaningless.
There are no good or bad people. There are only good and bad deeds.
I’m not going to address your first paragraph, it’s dumb.
But I will address your second paragraph. If a person commits many bad deeds they become a bad person. To become a billionaire you must commit many, many bad deeds. Therefore being a billionaire means you are a bad person.
Even if you believed you could become a billionaire by committing nothing but good deeds, being a billionaire requires you to have a billion dollars. Having a billion dollars over any period of time means you’re committing the bad deed of inaction. Not helping those in need, not giving away your excess money, not changing the world for the better. It’s watching a grandma getting assaulted and doing nothing about it - a despicable act - multiplied by billions of people and then made distant by every dollar you keep. If you had a billion dollars that means you know your friends, and your family, and the homeless of your city, and every person you know who needs expensive healthcare or university or a home is going without those things because you and you alone choose not to give it to them. Not to even speak about the people in places our ancestors abused or the planet that’s dying or any other serious issue that could be meaningfully dented by anyone one of these billionaire assholes.
No, I disagree with your position. There are bad people, because those people commit overwhelmingly bad deeds. Being a billionaire means you must be a bad person. Hell, owning more than let’s say 20 million makes you a bad person and I think the state should tax every dollar over 5m.
How much of your excess money are you giving away? 100% of it?
The average person could donate a fraction of a cent and be giving away more excess than a billionaire when speaking in relative terms
That’s not the logic we’re operating with here. The GP claimed that if you’re not giving away your excess money, you’re committing the bad deed of inaction. Thus no one should have any savings whatsoever. Every penny beyond what you need to survive should be given away or it’s a bad deed.
They’re not gonna pay you for bootlicking here