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@jeffowski Good post, not related to billionairs, but otherwise a good post I wish more people understood.
@freemo — the existence and allowance of billionaires fall hand in hand with homelessness and hunger.
@jeffowski Incorrect, though it is a common perspective and I understand that you believe thqt to be the case.
That isnt to say that billionairs do no wrong, they do, right along with people at any income level.
@freemo — it is a much greater moral failing of a billionaire not using that power to feed and house people than a worker going paycheck to paycheck not volunteering.
Voltaire: "Everyone is guilty of all the good they did not do."
On average richer people donate a much larger percentage of their ownings to help the poor that middle-class well off people, but a pretty big margin.
So yes, and they **do** donate more, statistically speaking. The problem is not wholly theirs to bear however.
@freemo — I think someone famous once said that with great power comes great responsibility.
Being a billionaire would grant the vast majority of the population an unimaginable power to change lives with money alone.
Again, it’s always a white Northern European guy that is defending the status quo because they are insulated from the problems incurred by their morally bankrupt views and philosophy.
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> Again, it’s always a white Northern European guy that is defending the status quo because they are insulated from the problems incurred by their morally bankrupt views and philosophy.
Oh, who is that? I am not white (im native american), and I'm not norther European or even European... Thanks for that racist remark though, really shows your true colors.
@freemo — the attitude of the colonizer from a native person? Just shows you have affluence truly corrupts.
Well I guess thats one way to respond to you finding out your comment was racist nonsense.. just double down on it.
Welcome to the mute list.
@jeffowski @freemo the church of Jeff doesn’t understand why envy is a sin.
Usually when someone starts spewing racist garbage in response to an otherwise polite difference of opinions its a pretty good indication that "understanding" is really one of their strong suits.
@freemo @justinerickson — you live in the Netherlands where they accept the highest wealth disparity on the planet of any nation. You argue points of the very regular Germans, Dutch, Danish collective that fight against whatever message is being expressed. Can’t help it if they fit a very specific stereotype and keep representing as such. See my feed. I talk about this phenomenon regularly.
@freemo — you defend billionaires. Go suck off Elon Musk.