• Empricorn@feddit.nl
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    Every billionaire is a policy failure, whether they’re a company owner, dictator, or streamer; they’re all needlessly hoarding wealth, harming us all. If you have more money than you could ever spend while people freeze and starve in the street, you are part of the problem and a bad person…

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      Billionaires are a symptom of a corrupt society. The more ultra wealthy individuals, the more corrupt the society is.

      Because the more an individual can manipulate the laws to their advantage in order to become wealthy, the more loopholes/hidden things/bribery/mazes in the net there are in the laws.

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      B-b-b-but he gives some of it back! Something something effective altruism 🫠

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        TBF, estimates are slightly lower than 1B, but he does reportedly earn $700,000,000. Every year…