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Having ultra wealthy people is not a sign of a healthy society. It is a sign of a diseased society.

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YES YES and YES!!!

If people have to struggle and starve so a handful of people can be rich, there simply should be anyone rich. We all deserve to live comfortable and it is very much possible so long as we regulate the few with the most wealth. Wealth, I might add, that was build on the backs of many.

Yes indeed

actual, literal, non-metaphorical cancer

And if we don't cure it, we're gonna die from it.

Like Czarist Russa, Feudal China, and Vietnam before their communist revolutions. Socialist countries never turn communist, only abusive capitalist countries do.

A country which glorifies money, power and celebrity status over critical metrics such as healthcare, education, human rights and mental health. No wonder it's crumbling into chaos

Tumors extracting resources at the cost of everything else.

indeed.😒

They are parasites and until we treat them as such they will multiply. Fleas on a dog long enough and the dog becomes anemic. Ticks on a deer, horse or cow, the same. They are the Parasite Class.

No one should want to live in a society where one single individual can be worth $1tn, no matter their personal virtues: such levels invariably skew power, distort marketsand sap our democratic ideals.

Truth!

Late capitalism devolves to monarchy bs because of monopolies.

I would actually say that having ultra poor people is a sign of a diseased society. I don’t care if we have ultra wealthy citizens, just so long as we don’t have unhoused, unfed, and unwell citizens.

Wait until Elon funds a space project to seed other planets with clones of him

Ответ для Duopoly Problems

Wait until Elon funds a space project to seed other planets with clones of him and sends You the Bill. Musk is Too Wealthy to Spend His Money when He can Embezzle Yours!

Just say no to the Gilded Age…and Gilead💀👹🖕

I just learned that this painting depicts a man wanting to stop the expansion of a school.

But a whole lot of Americans believe that they are just millionaires & billionaires-in-waiting.

Especially when others are drowning in medical debt and can’t afford homes.

Ответ для Lowinfocitizen

The median starter home is a million dollars and growing faster than wages. The only way to get people to support such a sick society is to have a middle class that gets a taste of the good life. That's gone and everything built upon it is going to topple at some point. Maybe soon.

"When people accept futility and the absurd as normal, the culture is decadent". -- Jacques Barzun

We could vote for changing the policies on wealth by increasing the highest progressive tax rate but we never seem to have the gumption to actually nominate such individuals even when they run and campaign on it. Democracy is dying.

Having a 1% ultra wealthy people is not a sign of a 100% healthy society When 99% are a pay check away from Destitution with Zero Safety Net. It is a sign of a diseased society. Rotting from the Head!

depends, remember, there is a world where the ultra poor do not exist, and everyone is middle class or higher. In that case? yeah I think we can allow it. There's other examples, just my first thought

There's absolutely nothing wrong with a society having ultra-wealthy people, it's having poor people that is the problem. It is possible to have ultra-wealthy people and zero poverty.

Diminishing Marginal Returns applies to money more perfectly than anything else

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People idolize them because that's exactly what they want to be.

Just think while we live in the wastes from their businesses,paying the increased utility cost of their A.I. centers, fighting the wars that feed them profits, they are safe on their superyachts and in their bunkers. #GeneralStrike

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I'm going to register as a business and start stealing water and power from the local municipal system and then promise them jobs as I take a watery shit on their desk when and if they question me. That should get me a pardon.

So true.

Amen 😒

Let's go back to the barter system.

The wealthy turn workers into slaves for them.

Feudal System.

Absolutely

A billionaire is living proof that some people are being paid too little and others are being charged too much. Our tax system needs to adjust to account for how much a person uses The Commons to make their wealth. A teacher, a plumber - they use “1 Commons Unit.” Bezos? How much?

Ответ для Real_I_am_Groot

Exactly. We need a land value tax.

Ответ для Real_I_am_Groot

Billionaires send me into conversations about exploitation. Exploitation of the workers, exploitation of customers, exploitation of government resources and policies. All of the exploitation is dedicated to extraction of the wealth that workers/society generate. Have I mentioned private equity?

Or a sign of a certain section of society which are diseased/psychotic

It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.

The rich are made of meat

Versailles

It’s like having a large tumor the body has to constantly take care of.

There shouldn't be trillionaires and people starving on the streets. They should have their wealth taken and redistributed. Leave them like 5-10 million each so they can have their own land and new business. If they're really good at business like they say they are, they can get back their money.

...run by greedy people. History has shown, this gap never lasts.

A society with sone wealthy people is better than a society that only has poor people.

Ответ для galaxydreams70

right. so long live trillionaires while we starve. got it.

It’s a sign of a shit hole country

I hated those little blue books in college.

Ответ для kenyettawrites

I hated those little Red books in college.

Unless that society is an oligarchy. In which case, it's a sign that all is well.

A DEAD society, that is just limping along pretending to be america or a democracy.

Would add: a sign of a declining society. The downfall of hyper ultra capitalism is ugly