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“Nobody should be a trillionaire” is a controversial statement to conservatives
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Anonymous 2w

News headline that should be shown everywhere: “The world’s soon to be first trillionaire caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of children”

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Anonymous 2w

No! Let the rich get richer so that i get the benefits when im a trillionaire! My car freshener business is going to take off soon.

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Anonymous 2w

Simply examining how much more the rich have than others is insufficient. We also need to examine *how* they got rich. Creating wealth via positive-sum market activity is morally good.

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Anonymous 2w

And you shouldn’t have an opinion if its not your money and they got it legally

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 2w

In general, the rich are getting richer, but so is everyone else.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 2w

“Greed is good” ahh statement

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2w

Nonsense, this has nothing to do with greed. Creating wealth for others is good.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 2w

You think billionaires create wealth for others? And by others you mean their shareholders, then sure

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2w

Once again, it depends on how they became a billionaire. Gary Michelson became a billionaire by inventing nearly 1,000 medical inventions to treat spinal disorders. It would be hard to argue that he didn’t enrich the lives of those who benefited from the technology he created.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 2w

Michelson got his billionaire status by selling his patents to Medtronic. I might say that billionaires are the result of an inherently unethical system

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2w

And millions of people have benefited from his patents. There is nothing unethical about it.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 2w

I’m referring to our system as being unethical

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 2w

the american poverty rate is at 10-11% and a trillion dollars of wealth that the richest people are using for stocks could be used to get a lot of those people out of poverty, whether through public or private means. but you make a fair point, it depends on the person and how they got to where theyre at. I just think once they cross into “billion” they have a lot of wealth that could be otherwise used to benefit the rest of society

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 2w

They steal other peoples’ money though

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