Maybe billionaires should get a real job that contributes.

  • @kernelle
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    -38 months ago

    I get people here like to circlejerk, but a blanket statement like the one OP made detract so much value from your cause. Statements like that don’t hold anymore value than a billionaire saying regular people shouldn’t be eating avocados and not go to starbucks and that irony is in fact hilarious. The fact you can’t acknowledge that irony means you are in fact out of touch.

    • @Viking_Hippie
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      58 months ago

      Degrees matter. There IS in fact a specific amount of wealth that it’s literally impossible to achieve and retain by merit alone and that dollar number is far below a billion.

      You can act like a billionaire is just a more successful millionaire all you want, but it simply isn’t true any more than an emperor being just a more powerful mayor.

      • @kernelle
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        -48 months ago

        Who are you talking to? I can agree with all that and still believe billionaires are actual people who provide actual value. Just like I disagree heavily with any dictator, I can acknowledge they provided value and reason for people to follow them, and I can acknowledge that it’s an actual job. Did I say I agree with billionaires? Did I say I think they should exist and deserve their position? Absolutely not, but you’re just as happy to project all your negative feelings upon me.

        Out of touch hilarious irony

        • @Sprawlie
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          58 months ago

          Economically speaking, billionaires are absolutely a terrible thing. It removes wealth from circulation and is counter productive to societal growth goals. One of the reasons we’re constantly “printing money” is so that we can ensure there’s enough of it in circulation and used by the masses after the wealthy extract their portion and remove it from general circulation.

          Economies work best when money isn’t hoarded or stashed away, but circulating fluidly throughout the economy. Billionaires are counter-thesis to this.

          • @kernelle
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            28 months ago

            I agree with this completely, I can tell my reply is being heavily misinterpreted.

            • @[email protected]
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              28 months ago

              If every reply you post are misinterpreted according to you, then the problem is either you cannot communicate your idea well, or your point of view is the problem.

              • @kernelle
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                18 months ago

                Valid possibility, equally valid but conveniently left out:

                • Echo chamber
                • Polorizing political landscape
                • “Downvotes must mean everyone agrees this bad” aka groupthink

                Life isn’t an if-then statement let me tell you that much.

                  • @kernelle
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                    -18 months ago

                    And since you’re so eager to project your negative feelings towards billionaires on me, I’ll assume you’re suffering all three of my points.

                    Wasn’t this a delightfully useless conversation? Two strangers being divided over the same hatred toward mass wealth accumulation. When you hear the quote “divide and conquer”, think of this conversation.

        • @Viking_Hippie
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          8 months ago

          billionaires are actual people who provide actual value.

          Actual people I guess, but by definition a net drain on society via destructive resource hoarding. If I gave you $5 and then hired someone to steal $5000 from you, which action would you focus on?

          Out of touch hilarious irony

          Coming from the “well technically dictators do good stuff too” guy 🤦

          • @kernelle
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            -68 months ago

            Fight your strawman my dude, you’re doing so great!