12/07/2024
Once again missing the point. Johnelle Hunt became a billionaire by starting a successful trucking company. What immoral act did she do? Judy Faulkner became a billionaire by developing an in-house patient record keeping program that the medical industry uses. Shes never made an acquisition and develops all the software in-house, and has also pledged to (eventually) give 99% of her assets to charitable foundations. Wheres her requisite immorality? Taylor Swift became a billionaire by making music and performing concerts/tours. Immoral? I can come up with many more examples of billionaires who got there through normal business means, no Chinese child labor required. It is silly to try to convince people that you can only become a billionaire through illicit or evil means when thats patently untrue. Furthermore, its just not the issue at hand. Once you get over yourself and realize billionaires who got there ethically can and do exist, that does nothing to subvert the real issue at hand; a billion dollars is too much of a finite resource to rest in the hands of a single individual, no matter how they attained it. If we dont cut the nonsensical red herrings out of the discussion and get directly to the meat, we make addressing this issue harder than it needs to be.