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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I watched a documentary on oil execs a while ago (can't remember the name, sorry :( ). Someone asked an exec why he wasn't giving 50 of the 60 billion dollars he owned to charity or government programs and he literally said "but how am I going to feed my family" without a shred of irony.

You were being funny, but the billionaire class actually believes this.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I want to blow him damn

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

reddthat is pretty dope

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Just be a CEO of a large corrupt corporation and someone will be along shortly to process your request.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Someone else in another thread said their friend inherited a billion dollars and is the hardest working person they've ever met and I honestly couldn't help but laugh out loud.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

But then I'll be a dirty nasty poor like the rest of you!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Ah ha! Problem solved then. Nice troubleshooting skills!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

You could pay my friend a livable wage so he could live in his own property for the first time in his life or you could keep the money for yourself. You are entirely dependent on him doing his job for you to earn anything, and you choose to keep the money for yourself. And you truly don't see how keeping all the money for yourself is stealing his wages? Oh and also there are hundreds of thousands of people in my friends situation, but there's only like 500 of you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

first off its not my job to analyze every specific thief. But since I have nothing else to do right now: do you think sport stadiums and sport organizations are just like immutable laws of nature? They're just always there? No, there are legions of people who work to make these events happen, and the athletes steal basically all the money. For crying out loud, the Qatar world cup stadium was built using literal slave labor. All those morally corrupt athletes still played there.

You have ~~thief~~ billionaire athlete friends (a claim I am dubious of). Well, I have friends who work in the sports industry who are 50 and can't afford to move out of their parents basement. They are employed full-time and work at least three jobs.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Its so hard so we should never try and just let all the disgusting poors die like pigs in the street. Got it.

And its not worth ever trying to change anything for future generations, fuck your loser kids, you got yours right?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/?v=3

Billionaires have all the money that will ever be needed to fix this problem forever. Your friend (who is 100% part of the problem) included. I want to take their wealth back and invest it in the people, like any functional society worth a damn would do.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

You know I got super high a few weeks ago and imagined something similar to this so I'm pretty sure they're on to something here.

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