The fact that you canāt raise taxes on billionaires even slightly without them pouring money into fascist political movements is, of itself, evidence that billionaires as a class shouldnāt be allowed to exist in the first place.
You, ah, donāt think itās unfair to judge peopleās morals based on their finances?
I, ah, think that itās perfectly fair to judge peopleās morals based on the amount of money they pour into neo-nazi political movements, yeah actually.
I, ah, also think itās 100% fair to judge someoneās morals based on their finances whether they support neo-nazis or not. You canāt have that much money and be a good person. Iām sorry. I donāt care how manyĀ āāniceāā billionaires yall try to show me to prove me wrong. Nobody in the history of mankind has worked hard enough to earn BILLIONS. Even if they become philanthropists, they almost solely become billionaires by profiting from the labor (underpayment, abuse, etc.) of others. How can you sayĀ āhm..they could be a morally good person..ā You also canāt be a billionaire in a country where people donāt have clean water or a world where people are starving and claim to be a good person.Ā There are a few people with enough wealth to end world hunger MULTIPLE TIMES OVER, yet here we are.Ā There is no such thing as a good billionaire as far as Iām concerned.Ā Nobody is deserving of that much money. Nobody has earned that much money. Nobody can sit on that much money and claim to be a good person.Ā
I have spoken with Nobel prize winning physicists. I have spoken with their colleagues. I have worked with people who have led teams to make discoveries that twist my mind into knots. I have worked with scientists whose concept of hard work and dedication would beggar the belief of a robot. Iāve gone to talks led by scientists who head forty-people teams, synchronizing the efforts of others so efficiently I could scarcely believe it.Ā
These are people whose life works exist entirely in conceptual space, where the limits of what they can achieve are only their And they are impressive, donāt get me wrong, but few of them would I value more than a team of decent scientists. The amount of skill, intelligence, and diligence required to outwork even half a dozen of your fellows is pushing the limits of human ability.Ā
Even Albert Einstein, famed example of the brilliant lone scientist, was not thatĀ special. Iāve read his papers in detail, and those of his contemporaries (took a class on it actually). Without him the discovery of general relativity would have been delayed two or three years at most, the mathematical and conceptual groundwork that enabled his brilliance was laid down by others and being investigated by others as well. And Iād pit a decent team against Einstein any day of the week, an individual can only do so much.Ā
For the amount of money Jeff Bezos earns working for a day, $215,000,000 (x), I could hire a thousand such hardworking geniuses for a year. Maybe āonlyā a hundred if they were from an exceptionally competitive and valuable field.
For the money Jeff Bezos earns in a year, I could hire a village. I could create a project with so many educated minds it would be larger than the Manhattan Project. About a dozen times over.Ā
No one is that irreplaceable. No one has a percent of that worth. If someone is a billionaire, they are earning beyond their contribution to society, at the expense of otherās well-being.Ā
So yeah, fuck billionaires.Ā
Holding onto quantities of money that it would be impossible to spend in a normal human lifetime when people die every day is also evil.
Like Imagine having 10,000 cheeseburgers in a room, you literally cannot eat them all. You *canāt*. You eat them for every meal and theyāll all go bad before you make even the tiniest dent in their absurd mass. And into the room walks 1000 starving people. *Literally* starving, actively dying of hunger starving, and you donāt give them some cheeseburgers.Ā
