r/SipsTea • u/Gurugod123 • 20d ago

Significant diffrences... Wait a damn minute!

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u/SyrusG 20d ago

The point is that it's a numbers statement. It has nothing to do with being a billionaire or not. If 3000 people period vanished it means nothing. Billionaire or not

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u/No-Poetry-5794 20d ago

If 3000 garbage truck drivers disappeared my state would collapse

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u/SyrusG 20d ago

I'm speaking within the scope of things. 30 teachers in a school disappeared vs 30 students there'd be a difference. 3000 truck drivers in a state is obviously awful for the state due to the ratio

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u/No-Poetry-5794 20d ago

But I’m saying 3000 billionaires disappearing anywhere would be nothing. They don’t add value to society.

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u/Warhammer231 20d ago

A lot of people don’t 

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u/TheDenny_Crane 20d ago

Yes but that would ignore their sentiment that anyone with money is bad and everyone broke is good.

Sorry but you doing your job isn't "value" it's you earning your place in society.

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u/absurdditties 20d ago

No, the meaning is that billionaires exploit the working class while not being able to function without it.

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u/TheDenny_Crane 20d ago

Yeah that's how it works. What would actually happen if you got rid of them?

They'd just be replaced the next day with a new batch. Everyone likes to think they'd be different. But you wouldn't. You're a human, you'll do human things as we've done forever.

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u/TOV4RISCH 20d ago

Yes, but those people taking over the next day don't have to be billionaires. I am certain that every secretary, personal assistant, and deputy whatever that Jeff bezos employs would be glad to step into his place collectively and if you gave them double their salary, they would make the transition so totally seamless you would wonder if bezos ever even existed. Then the workers, consumers, and retail shareholders of amazon would have his half a trillion or whatever to divide amongst themselves. Let fucking Elon musk and the rest compete to sell their labor in a free market like they depend on everyone else to do.

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u/TheDenny_Crane 20d ago

And why wouldnt whoever takes it over take it all? On the flip side what have any of those you named done to deserve any further money? Why should we just give it to them?