12/07/2024

Its not about how massive a billion dollars is. Someone born into it didnt do anything unfair to anyone else. Someone who innovated a product that the majority of people want to pay for, when there are 330 million+ people just in the domestic market, and obviously much more foreign, also not hard to see how someone can accumulate massive amounts of wealth just in the course of normal business dealings. Again a combination of luck and innovation, being the first to market with an idea thats popular with consumers, can lead to such massive wealth without necessarily doing anything immoral or fucking people over. Try reading the rest of my comment before having a knee jerk reaction. It is because I understand how massive a billion dollars is that I said and will now repeat its not about what it took to become a billionaire, it is the act of hoarding a billion dollars or more in itself that is immoral. Whether a billionaire got there fairly or not is not relevant. Having that much money and not putting a significant amount back into society is whats immoral and deserves focus. Focusing on the alleged immoral means is a red herring and disrupts the discourse around the immorality of the existence of billionaires regardless of how they became one.

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