The best billionaire is still a bad person. Billionaires should not exist!

Eat ’em

Billionaires exist because of political choices that incentive hoarding and non-salary compensation instead of sharing profits with the workers who actually create the wealth.

All Republicans and far too many Democrats support and personally benefit from this political choice.

I only donate to Democrats who are fiercely pro-worker. I will not donate to the party or to any corporate Democrats.

Centralized power is cancer to society no matter who it is 👈

This sentiment is so basic. Billionaires are evil because there’s no way to amass that level of wealth without exploitation. It’s not that they’re ‘not nice’ and sharing their wealth, it’s that they are actively ruining other people’s lives in order to profit in volumes that are incomprehensible and completely unnecessary.

Amazon is a perfect example. Bezos’ absurd wealth is propped up by forcing drivers into insane schedules where they can’t afford to stop for a bathroom break or a lunch break on a long-ass shift, and they’re forced to be independent contractors so they receive no workplace protections or benefits. Warehouse workers have to maintain near-impossible quotas that break their bodies and their emotional welfare. It’s completely unnecessary: Amazon could make drivers employees, pay them well, give them workplace protections, and still profit more than God can even comprehend. They could hire more warehouse workers and not break people’s bodies and still be richer than fuck.

They don’t do that, though, because they are sociopathic evil leeches on society.

Imagine having so much wealth you could innovate healthcare- pay off every American’s medical debt, help expand Mark Cuban’s CostPlusDrugs efforts, build not for profit healthcare systems, innovate city planning- provide safe affordable housing in walkable neighborhoods that provide grocery options every other block; no food deserts- mass transit, my god that alone would make lives so much better.

I don’t think they are holding onto cash. It’s their net value. Granted, they still probably have more cash than us.

The only thing billionaires can do to be called crazy is part with their money. Everything else they do is praised as genius.

You can’t eat green paper dollars. I think it makes sense to consider how they spend money, not just that they have it. 

If a billionaire spends hundreds of millions on a yatch they use once a year, pulling away engineering and material resources from society, or has 4 empty houses, that’s really bad.

But if they live within reason and mostly use the excess capitol for philanthropy/ investment I think that’s ok. 

Poverty is a reflection of wealth inequality, meaning; when wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few individuals, others are left without the resources to meet their basic needs, resulting in poverty.

If all the billionaires in the world gave all their money away equally, you’d get like $50. 

Please explain how that will make you better after you spent the $50 on a bag of Doritos, a case of Mt Dew code Red and a an only fans subscription?

The problem with billionaires is that they’re not any smarter than anyone else. They’re just people, and they come with all the same failings that everyone else has. And that means they can fall prey to conspiracy theories and nonsense philosophies, like we’re seeing in the tech bro community right now. But because they’re billionaires, they actually have the ability to force their crazy onto the rest of us, and that’s actively happening now behind the scenes of the current administration.

Here’s an entertaining video explainer: https://youtu.be/fIR70MAf12E

It’s kinda like if your racist flat-earther uncle won the lottery and started funding political candidates. It’s not any different than that. Most of these people simply luck out or were born into their wealth, and don’t have any special knowledge or education beyond the rest of us. In a lot of cases they’re probably way less educated because they get to skate through their lives due to their assets. This thing where we all defer to billionaires because of their perceived value has got to stop. In fact, we should have the opposite attitude altogether. We should pity them for their obvious antisocial tendencies and mental health issues that require them to hoard as much wealth as they can, and force them to get help, and ignore their opinions because they’re oftentimes significantly worse than random uneducated meemaws.

Monopoly:

I heard about the game and played it. I knew it was a lesson in life and ignored it as it seemed ridiculous.

I think we are in the last part of the game we are holding debt notes and the winners have piles of cash wanting to lend more so they can win more and feel good.

You know the game nears its end when kids die in 1st world hospitals when the cure is not given for fear of a bean counters profit margin.

So also job pitzter right? Oh wait it’s (d) different

If I were that rich I wouldn’t give you or anybody a dime. I would tell you to work for it so I can make more. 😂

When I had a high paying job, I would throw tons of money at RIP Medical Debt (now known as Undue) every month. They would buy medical debts from billers and just forgive it. I hate that this is one of the most effective ways to bring people out of poverty, but that’s where we are. Because in America we would rather let companies sell debt to collectors like it’s lottery scratch-offs before forgiving debts outright.

Assets != money

The truth that most their wealth is make believe is even worse than the idea that they’re sitting on stacks of hundreds of billions of dollars.

There is no set limit on abundance. Hating on those who make money fulfilling needs and wants because they’re “hoarding” is fallacious. The people you want to eat are the ones who use violence (including through the state) to control or steal from you.

Musk isn’t just hoarding absurd amounts of wealth. He garnered much of it while actively pretending to be in favor of a (paraphrased) “multiplanetary, environmentally friendly, innovative, post-scarcity, Star Trek style egalitarian, sustainable, meritocratic and science-based future for subsequent generations”.

His entire grift was suing his way into Tesla as a founder and then pretending he was making the world a better place. SpaceX was supposed to increase the chances of survival of our n=1 fragile habitat on earth, but Gwynne Shotwell is now pushing the hilarious farce that rockets will replace airplanes for surface to surface destination flights. Meanwhile, they got many billions in taxpayer money off the guarantee that SpaceX’s Starship would fly multiple cargo and crew missions to the moon years ago.

He bought into the MAGA movement to avoid 10x the charges Elizabeth Holmes got rightfully jailed and bankrupted for. No Musk product has ever met the specs and production timeline he guaranteed in investor wrangling rounds. Roadster, full self-driving, semi, a megawatt charging network, robotaxi, BFR, rapidly reusable falcon, tunnel boring at a net profit by selling bricks made from contaminated tunnel spoil (LOL), solar roof tiles, hyperloop, cybertruck… None of these met the assurances Musk made about specs or basic QA/QC or reliability or price or production numbers / timeline. Even the wildly successful bread and butter of Tesla (Y, 3 and S) and SpaceX (Falcon) didn’t meet specs. Battery life and depreciation of Tesla EVs is far worse than promised. Reusability of flown Falcon rockets is weeks or months, not days as was guaranteed.

Musk blaming regulations for these failures is just another distraction from his fraud. Just like the whole nazi salute alt right radicalization. He just bought himself a pardon and his companies a stay of execution for less than half a billion bucks.