Billionaires are a political choice as much as homelessness. They are allowed to exist because nobody does anything about it.
7 years ago there were no billionaires worth more than $100 billion - today there are 18!
Submitted 1 year ago by darnisha1@sh.itjust.works to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 1 year ago
tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
They are allowed to exist because they can literally buy their own political system
mPony@lemmy.world 1 year ago
they can literally buy their own political system
They already have.
stormesp@lemm.ee 1 year ago
A boring distopia is already even a single person having more than a single billion.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
It’s inherently antisocial. You no longer have to play by the social contract with that kind of wealth/power.
It’s a grave failure with our economic system that billionaires have been permitted to come about
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yup, there was that post a while back, like you reach a billion, you get a plaque that says “congrats you won capitalism” and then they start at 0 again
itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Not even a billion, as soon as you’re in 8 figures you have more than a reasonable person can spend in a lifetime. Cap it at 50 million, every cent more goes towards public infrastructure and welfare
Or we could do away with capitalism entirely. Just saying
stormesp@lemm.ee 1 year ago
For real, like Prestige in Call of Duty
over_clox@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Eat the rich!
I’ll take a #8, with fries please…
deafboy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
But there’s nobody to prepare the fries. The economy has transformed entirely to eating the rich…