
Warren Buffet built his initial wealth through the tobacco industry and other harm-based industries, George Soros profited off financial instability he gained while the economy collapsed, Bill Gates is the easiest as the US government deemed Microsoft a monopoly and engages in buying smaller competition to set the market for his sole gain, Bezos and Mackenzie are both linked to Amazon which is notorious for underpaying workers who are already in poor workplace conditions
Not to mention all engage in mass propaganda evident by your views on the matter, to think that these billionaires and now trillionaires got there because they are just “smarter” and “work harder”, this is a myth told by capitalist elites to give imaginary faith that you may get there one day while they will continue to exploit the working class
No he's not. There is not a shred of evidence of such a thing and it's an outlandish accusation. Not even Epstein was a pedophile technically. And it is being assumed that anyone who ever knew the guy must have been involved in his stupid massages and sex with teenagers (which is wrong by american standards but not pedophilia) which there is no evidence of
Moving the goalposts. How did the standard become complete ethical purity. Yes you have to get your hands a little dirty to make a lot of money. Like just because Buffett made some investments you don't consider ethical doesn't make him some kind of supervillain overlord destroying the planet and responsible for poverty. Their success doesn't have anything to do with you.
Where in either post did I mention they had to be completely ethical? Also your definition of a “little dirty” is extremely vague and misleading, the examples listed aren’t something you can gloss over and mark as slightly immoral. The point I was attempting to make is that when you accrue the massive amount of wealth that is a billion dollars it will inevitably be off the backs of the working class whether directly or indirectly there are macroeconomic effects of each billionaires’ acts
And you can’t justify the accrued wealth by later actions with said wealth, the foundation of each and every billionaire is undoubtedly built with the dollars and health of the working class whether you choose to see it that way or not, so that is why I hold the opinion that there can be no moral billionaire
Also I never said “supervillain overlord” I simply was refuting the claim you made that there are some “good” billionaires which in itself is a very broad statement that can be interpreted on the basis of one’s personal subjective view of morality. Their success is not the sole and direct cause of poverty and every environmental crisis, but they are major implicit contributors to all of them, investments lead to thriving immoral industries that lead to problems in society
I'm not,sure it's true that the foundation of every billionaire's wealth is built on the health of the working class. I'm all for reining in corporate power and sharing wealth in a fairer way. Idk if billionaires specifically are the problem. They are just identifiable villains for this resentment and class warfare that some of you are preaching.