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There are no innocent millionaires. The threshold of wealth that requires some seriously unethical behaviour is pretty low.
nah million USD isn't as much money as it used to be. That's a house and couple of cars in more expensive countries. Though, personally 1 million USD net worth would be more than enough for me and my family.
You need to be a millionaire to comfortably retire so...
What do you count as innocent? Like doesn't use products made in factories with human rights violations? I'm never gonna hit a million, but economists are saying we all need to have a Mil or three in order to retire? I know a couple million airs who seem like normal people, they're just business owners?
I mean there is no way to goss a million a year without directly and knowingly exploiting people on a daily basis.
What If I gambled some money I made from honest work and won several millions? Who am I exploiting?
All the addicts who didn't win.
And that could've been me.
What if people just donated several millions to me because they liked something I did? that's not exploitation
How did Linux Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel, exploit people?
What did Linus Torvalds do?!