Just a shower realisation… I never associated the two words before but it’s so obviously true.

  • Mr Fish@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    Using Field’s disease there is a huge false equivalence, for two main reasons.

    A: you can’t just choose not to have Field’s, but a billionaire is capable of donating their wealth to charity or something, and no longer being a billionaire.

    B: the existence of people with Field’s has little to no impact on the average person outside that group, but the existence of billionaires massively changes how much money everyone else has