Comment on Billionaires shouldn't exist

• Draupnir@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You’re making the wrong investments then. You don’t get wealthy by gently contributing to a 401(k) and hoping for insane appreciation. Average US citizen works a full-time job, 9-5 probably right? Then what do they do with their 5-9? Are they doing things that align themselves with actions that are more likely to make them more money, or are they spending earnings on distractions?

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  • 5too@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Goddamn, victim blame much? Most of them are trying to survive!

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    • Draupnir@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Sounds like a pretty lofty assumption

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      • AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        More lofty than your assumption that people didn’t know how to work? Continue licking that boot, I’m sure you’ll be a billionaire any day now!

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  • DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Then what do they do with their 5-9?

    I don’t know, how about actually living a life?

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    • Draupnir@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      If by actually living a life you mean things like going out with friends, playing games/fun hobbies, spending time with family, going to dinner, etc. then that’s fine! But that’s the cost of staying where you are. And on the other side, the path to wealth costs the sacrifice of these things temporarily for a period in life. Each is the cost of the other.

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      • DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        You know who doesn’t have to choose between a life with friends, hobbies and family?

        Billionaires.

        Why do you suck up to them? What do you hope to get out of this?

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      • DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        But I’m sorry. You are a capitalist while I am a socialist. We won’t ever see eye to eye on this matter.

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  • AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Hear that, lower class? All you have to do to become a billionaire is not spend money on distractions! If you do that using your two minimum wage jobs, and also don’t spend anything on rent or food, then it will only take you 33,156 years to become a billionaire! It’s really that easy, you just have to know how to “work”.

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    • Draupnir@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      🤣 we are clearly on very different trajectories. Good day to you!

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      • AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        We aren’t, because you will never be a billionaire and neither will I. So, you’ll keep happily licking the bottom of the billionaire boot and yet, we’ll end up the same place. Interesting how that works.

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