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It’s a paradox. The people who would use such wealth for good almost never become billionaires in the first place. It takes a significant amount of ruthlessness. No one becomes a billionaire without exploitation. And there are a select few who actually follow through on giving up their fortunes (while still alive, I consider the “giving pledge” upon death to be null and void).
I just saw a story about Woz who gave up his apple wealth to fund museums and schools. He probably would have been a billionaire if he hadn’t. But he said that he values more than just his bank account.
Exactly, great example! He could definitely have been a billionaire if he wanted to, but he’s just not that kind of person. Mad respect.
They mirror the general population. If people would make sure to buy from good people and to vote for good people, good people would be in power.
Of course people will be good if that is what is rewarded in society. But in general people just do what everybody else does.
I think about this every… single… day.
Why don’t we all just collectively say “no”? What the fuck would these 70–80-year old dick-tators do then?! NOTHING.
We’re not unified and we’re incapable to be that organized. The billionaires are rich enough to buy the important infuencial people and to manipulate the masses with propaganda. It’s hard to fight that, as we can see now.
i dont think were incapable. but to be fair i havent put that much thought into it. but i think there is a way we can at least checkmate them into being good.
for instance. lets say there is some FOSS that is better than any other paid/sub software like spotify. how would it work? i do not know. but lets just say, its possible.
people will use it, and spotify will dry up unless they change their model. they could try to buy up the foss, but we can just say no.
maybe a system where the community buy land through taxes. slowly putting it back in the hands of the people/local council. the rich are squeezing us out, but we can squeeze back.
there could be a marketing campaign similar to ‘diamonds are a girls best friend’ but more inline with ‘community money is worth more than gold’ so that we just stop selling to the rich. ingrain it in the people.
have people learn that billionaires are actually mentally ill and we should feel sorry for them and offer them therapeutic support to help them with their addiction. make them feel small like they are.
sometimes people go out to clean up the forest, or comb the beaches for trash and plastic as a way to give back to the community and help the world. similarly we could be using that same kind of effort healing the world from capitalism.
so not really incapable. but there needs to be a focused effort in specific directions.
i feel what is holding us back mostly is infighting(which is both an ancient practice of humanity as well as a consistent marketing campaign by the wealthy). once we can get past that, the world is our oyster.
Unfortunately they got a fair amount of bootlicking sycophants to protect them.
upvote for dick-tator
I would cut off both my arms if it meant I could kick a billionaire to death.
Not judging your sacrifice, but how would you cut off your 2nd arm? The 1st one I get, but unless you set up a buzzsaw… nevermind that’s probably how.
It’s called worker solidarity, Ill do it for them :)
For me that’s not even the weird part, I have no grand hopes that human goodness could overcome their nature, but the really weird part to me is that we have all of the knowledge on how to fix this and despite that half of everyone everywhere has somehow been convinced that a democratic state which taxes the rich won’t work.
half of everyone everywhere has somehow been convinced
Propaganda works well, especially if you own the media
Being a psychopatic evil piece if shit is not some innate trait of human nature, they’re sick and twisted creatures
Hot take: does holding this opinion make a positive change around you? Does it make you a better person or do you just become bitter. You could learn a new skill or do some volunteer work.
leave the rich people alone 😡
Lmao
It’s certainly changed my life for the better.
The first step to solving a problem is identifying it.
Once you know the problems plaguing, most modern-day peoples are atomisation, exploitation, and dehumanization… It makes it pretty clear how many people you have in your corner. That’s a good feeling, and it naturally leads to solutions to those problems.
What is this “hot take” supposed to prove? Doesn’t really make sense.
