Democrats want us to believe that there is some cohort of “good billionaires” who can be relied upon to fight for political progress. But as the right-wing turn of tech billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk suggests, this is nonsense.
You can easily burn through a million in ten years of medical care with certain conditions (certainly in the US). Yes that needs to be fixed, but people with a million dollars for their retirement after working 50 years, they are not the problem with society.
This feels a bit like the oxygen masks in an airplane. Take care of your own basic needs first and then focus on others around you. Who is going to take care of me when I’m no longer earning if I gave all my money away to the more needy when I was earning? Or should I just die?
You can easily burn through a million in ten years of medical care with certain conditions (certainly in the US). Yes that needs to be fixed, but people with a million dollars for their retirement after working 50 years, they are not the problem with society.
They are definitely a problem.
How exactly is someone a problem if they worked for 50 years and managed to save around 1 million in that time?
People are starving bud. Having a million dollars while people starve is fucking insane
This feels a bit like the oxygen masks in an airplane. Take care of your own basic needs first and then focus on others around you. Who is going to take care of me when I’m no longer earning if I gave all my money away to the more needy when I was earning? Or should I just die?
Billionaires. Not millionaire.
You might want to reread those last 3 comments in the chain.