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• DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  First of all, not really. However I hate Musk (trust me I do), Tesla still makes cars, SpaceX still launches satellites, and Starlink still provides internet. These thing benefit society. However Bezos treats his employees, Amazon sells and delivers goods, runs twitch, makes TV shows, … These are benefits to society that Musk and Bezos helped with. Does it make it ok to mistreat workers? Absolutely not. Does it make it ok to evade/“optimize” taxes? Absolutely not. Capitalism NEEDS TO BE REGULATED. We have seen unregulated capitalism fail just as hard as pure communism. But that does not mean that they deserve nothing. That they can’t have a villas or a sports cars for helping create these companies that benefit others.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why are Musk or Bezos needed for any of those things? How did they help in specific? Did they design the cars or the rockets? Did they create the products on Amazon or the algorithms?

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    • DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If they are not needed, then go do it. Surely you can make a cheaper version without paying billions to people like Musk and Bezos…

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      • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        “You can’t do what they did, therefore no one can” is spurious reasoning.

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