Do you support sustainability, social responsibility, tech ethics, or trust and safety? Congratulations, you’re an enemy of progress. That’s according to the venture capitalist Marc Andreessen.

  • twisted28@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    When you really get down to the bottom of it, Almost every problem in modern society is caused by a billionaire. Billionaires shouldnt exist

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        They can be both. Let’s step away from the disease terminology and put it plainly.

        When there is this much suffering and inequality, billionaires shouldn’t be allowed to happen.

        No one deserves that much power nor that much wealth when around 75% of all human beings are facing such a disproportionate amount of struggle that its difficult to even describe the comparison.

        Billionaires live in a utopic paradise while the majority of humans are trapped in an existence that ranges from intolerable to abhorrent, abject poverty to barely surviving, all the while spending the majority of their time working, which contributes to the billionaires wealth…

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          People in extreme poverty world-wide are less than 10% and lessening over time. The majority of people don’t have an intolerable or abhorrent life.

          Neither do majority of people work more than 80 hours a week

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            People in extreme poverty world-wide are less than 10% and lessening over time. The majority of people don’t have an intolerable or abhorrent life.

            Ah yes when you state the world extreme poverty level at $2.85 a fucking day. What fucking fantasy world do you live in??

            Neither do majority of people work more than 80 hours a week

            Are you just retarded? The majority working over 80hrs a week are low skilled laborers working multiple jobs to make ends meet, tell me all about there amazing life when 2/3rds of the work week is just straight work which doesnt yeild enough time for a proper 8hrs of sleep when accounting for getting ready, eating, commuting or taking care of family?

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              The amount it people leaving poverty is happening so quickly it’s amazing.

              Compare abject poverty rates of now to 60 years ago and 100 years ago.

              What’s the point of being progressiv if you never accept that progress actually happens?

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        I agree because obviously capitalism pre-exists billionaires by default, but there is also no denying that them being means they have so much more power over every aspect of life than the rest of us, that they now completely control our lives and are absolutely making sure that fighting back becomes harder and harder. To abolish capitalism, we must get rid of the billionaires, they are our biggest hurdle (and are only people, after all).

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        1 year ago

        Nope, They’re the cause. If every Billionaire disappeared overnight most of societies problems would vanish too

        If Billionaires wealth were confiscated, the multi millionaire wouldn’t be as ruthless as a billionaire as they could lose everything. Just to be a billionaire shows that power is what theyre after, not money. Most people want to be rich so they can live well without spending their life working and can also help their friends and family to be happy as well. Billionaires don’t .

        The desire for never ending profits would end as they could not capture such profits thus ending exploitive practices and allowing profit to reach the worker.

        Without the wealthy gatekeeping education and healthcare this planet would evolve rapidly.

        The extremely wealthy have led the world for centuries and have chose their wealth and coming climate disaster over civilization

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      1 year ago

      capitalism + legal bribery (aka lobbying) = widening wealth gap

      You, as an individual or a group, cannot beat corporations.

      For more information, please see consumer right to repair.