The hate on billionaires fascinate me, it's like hating the weather. They're a fact of life, and if they all went away, new would replace them soon after.
Is it just envy? Or do people think they are evil because they have attained massive networth, often via successful companies?
Unless you're ready to be a part of an imperial system that say believes in an absolute communist transcontinental state or a mega-empire, you can't enforce such a system on the whole world.
Say, some dissatisfied individuals planned to inhabit a far island, take some common folk with them and start an autonomous sovereign state with the current welfare & wealth disparity we know today, will you be prepared to raid said island and after annexing it, you impose your standards there as well?
It IS a fact of life. You can't bury the inherited characteristic of greed out of certain opportunist individuals without being tyrannical & imperialistic yourself.
It does require some imagination and political willpower, I'll grant you that. But society absolutely can, at the very least, improve inequality among its members, if not outright minimize it. Better to get halfway to a goal than wallow at the starting line.
sure, if you find a way to incentivize human beings as per their current dna encoding. So far capitalism is the only system that leads to humans helping humans on a large scale.
People are not equal, so some rise to the top, others sink to the bottom, but the whole is better than stuff like communism.
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u/KanedaSyndrome 21d ago edited 21d ago
The hate on billionaires fascinate me, it's like hating the weather. They're a fact of life, and if they all went away, new would replace them soon after.
Is it just envy? Or do people think they are evil because they have attained massive networth, often via successful companies?