• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    7 hours ago

    What makes more sense in a society? One person who controls a billion dollars or a thousand people with million dollars?

    The billionaire locks up all that wealth and it doesn’t do anything for anyone … sure it might make someone even more money but it essentially locks away that potential wealth from a larger group of people.

    If you had 1,000 millionaires, then they would all go out to perform all kinds of other activities and businesses that would be smaller but at least benefit even more people.

    Driving wealth to smaller and smaller groups of people only drives more and more wealth to fewer people while everyone else suffers.

    Redistributing millions or billions of dollars might not change much … but at the very least it would be a hell of a lot better than what we have now.

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      6 hours ago

      The billionaires have their wealth in businesses, it’s not locked up. People don’t just put a billion in a savings account

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        5 hours ago

        If the people saying “kill all ceos” understood the basics of how a world worked or were past their edgy teens, they would also be smart enough not to grab for violence against entire groups as a first resort. Yes suck, hitlermelon, mexican currency and everyone running the american health insurance companies are not good people, obviously. That means society and laws must change to treat them as equals and to tax ultra rich more while removing money as a tool of influence from politics. I can’t see anyone not getting behind that.

        But idunno, I see people going “all ceos, landlords and rich are stinkin fukin evil, kill em all”. Idk seems kinda violent and totalitarian. Seems like theyd want me dead too since I dont like them killing people they define as needing to be killed. Idunno, makes me not want to respect any of them or their political beliefs or their side.

        Y’all see how you are actively giving fuel for the right? And now looking at the centrist threads, driving away people who dont like extremes by labling them as the enemy?