They’re basically saying, “group X shouldn’t exist because they have influence on how the world works, and I want the world to work my way.” Basically, if they had the influence they’d use it to control things in the way they want. They don’t have that influence and it pisses them off. They’re jealous.
I’m also not naive enough to think that my life would change at all if all the billionaires were gone tomorrow. People who want billionaires to have less seem to think it will mean they will have more… which is again, jealous.
Sure, we (that includes you!) are extorted into giving wealth to people who contribute nothing to society, but criticizing this is jealousy.
Just like slaves were just jealous of their masters, right?
To be slightly less cynical: look up how many empty houses/apartments there are in your country and then look how many homeless people there are. Chances are, the first number is larger. And now ask yourself: is that sane?
Or even more basic: why are we Westerners fattening, while other people are starving? Because there are some very rich people who profit from that situation.
BTW: you’re oversimplifying the solution, to just “removing” billionaires. I assume, you’re doing that out of mental laziness, and not stupidity. That interpretation, while being very literal, is an attempt to divert the discussion, a straw man.
What is meant here is, changing the economic situation in such a way, that billionaires can’t even exist. No one should be able to accumulate that much wealth, especially not if that wealth is purely extractive.
The world is provably (*) broken. Economically, environmentally. You name it. The system we have is unsustainable, and unsustainable means that it will be eventually unable to sustain itself and inevitably collapse. It is causing suffering to billions of humans and uncountable living beings.
And given what we know about most billionaires’ personal lives, it takes a certain kind personality to be jealous of their miserable lives.
What you call jealousy has nothing to do with wanting things to change. Try compassion and empathy, tinged by fear.
You sound like you’re one of the “temporarily embarrassed millionaires” who doesn’t understand that he’s being defrauded.
You’re a hooker thinking she’s actually the pimp.
They’re basically saying, “group X shouldn’t exist because they have influence on how the world works, and I want the world to work my way.” Basically, if they had the influence they’d use it to control things in the way they want. They don’t have that influence and it pisses them off. They’re jealous.
I’m also not naive enough to think that my life would change at all if all the billionaires were gone tomorrow. People who want billionaires to have less seem to think it will mean they will have more… which is again, jealous.
Sure, we (that includes you!) are extorted into giving wealth to people who contribute nothing to society, but criticizing this is jealousy.
Just like slaves were just jealous of their masters, right?
To be slightly less cynical: look up how many empty houses/apartments there are in your country and then look how many homeless people there are. Chances are, the first number is larger. And now ask yourself: is that sane?
Or even more basic: why are we Westerners fattening, while other people are starving? Because there are some very rich people who profit from that situation.
BTW: you’re oversimplifying the solution, to just “removing” billionaires. I assume, you’re doing that out of mental laziness, and not stupidity. That interpretation, while being very literal, is an attempt to divert the discussion, a straw man. What is meant here is, changing the economic situation in such a way, that billionaires can’t even exist. No one should be able to accumulate that much wealth, especially not if that wealth is purely extractive.
That’s not the point he was raising at all.
The world is provably (*) broken. Economically, environmentally. You name it. The system we have is unsustainable, and unsustainable means that it will be eventually unable to sustain itself and inevitably collapse. It is causing suffering to billions of humans and uncountable living beings.
And given what we know about most billionaires’ personal lives, it takes a certain kind personality to be jealous of their miserable lives.
What you call jealousy has nothing to do with wanting things to change. Try compassion and empathy, tinged by fear.
(*) https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adh2458
Living up to your name. Keep it up, friend!