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US Politics 6d
These billionaires man. I remember when bill gates was the richest guy in the world with $64 billion. Now that’s chump change. They need to be more like Mackenzie Scott and giving that shit away. People are starving and homeless rn
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Anonymous 6d

I wouldn’t mind much if they actually put that money to good use. Instead of sitting on it in the form of stock for the rest of their lives and passing it to kids to become bums

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Anonymous 6d

Mackenzie Scott has given away billions (I think literally half her money) and is still one of the richest people in the history of the world

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Anonymous 6d

It’s their money, you can’t tell people what to do with their money

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 6d

Like I get Elon does the rocket thing. Which is great and all, but I believe all that money can make leaps and bounds in cancer research.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 6d

What’s the point of all this. They hoard stock they do nothing with while the world starves. What is the point of their existence. Like yay I can post selfies on my iPhone, who cares

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 6d

ItS tHeIr MoNeY

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 6d

Also, these ppl have underground bunkers to survive nuclear war that they’re not gonna let you inside. They’re gonna let you die. Just think about that the next time you defend their choices

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 6d

So? It’s theirs. Would you want a person who has less money than you dictate to you saying you should give them some of your money because you have less money? You can’t tell people what to do with their own money

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 6d

rich people used to build libraries and theaters like idk why this would ever be such a hot take. rich people used to do shit with their money besides hoard it for no reason

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 6d

ok let's go back to taxing the rich how we used to and then the poor people will have more money to spend things boosting the economy and then those rich people will still get richer

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 6d

Why is money so different from any other resource here? If someone was hoarding millions of gallons of drinking water that they could never use while their neighbors die of thirst that’d obviously be fucked up. Sure you can do anything with “your money” but like everything else if you hoard beyond reason while others suffer you are a piece of shit

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 6d

You’re right I can’t tell people what to do with their own money. But I can expect better behavior and higher standards from them.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 6d

It’s gotta happen one way or the other. Voluntary or involuntary

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 6d

Like Carnegie and Rockefeller at least did things for the public with their comparatively small fortunes and their descendants are still fabulously wealthy. It’s just too much money for any one person to have

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 6d

Back when the upper class had class

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