duhbasser 18 points a year ago

You don’t become a billionaire by being ethical or nice. They probably have their own self interests in things that we don’t know about and will probably never know about. To me at least, there is no difference between a Elon Musk and Bill Gates, sure one is less of an ass but these billionaires live on another planet that very few “normal” people get to see what kind of people they truly are.

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olivecrest -2 points a year ago

Then you are not paying attention.

I’m not denying Bill was a merciless asshole as a business man to make his money, but he got married and had kids and learned compassion. Still not a perfect human, but he has given away over 100 billion dollars- with care and thought and in ways that literally save lives. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2p4p4l78zo

Google says his foundation has saved 122 million lives. SAVED LIVES. Not propped up his own interests or gotten accolades or done PR to impress ignorant people - but literally spent years of his own life working to SAVETHE LIVES of his fellow human beings.

They are not the same.

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criitz 5 points a year ago

They're not the same. But keeping billions of dollars is still unethical no matter how much philanthropy you get into.

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NoneOfUrBusiness -1 points a year ago

Why?

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olivecrest 6 points a year ago

Finite resources. When millions of people suffer and die for lack of resources while one parson controls enough resources to support all of them = it’s just not fair. No one person is worth more than hundreds of thousands of people.

For someone lucky and successful and hardworking to be better off than others = totally cool. You can do that no problem with 100 mil.

But when you have 1000x1000 more than you will ever need and other people die for want? Not cool.

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NoneOfUrBusiness -2 points a year ago

Money isn't food and water. Nobody dies because they don't have enough stocks. Also you should notice that money makes more money, which can then be used for, among other things, charity work. Just giving away all your money limits the amount of good you can do in the world a lot more than keeping it in the market and using it in controlled amounts.

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distantsounds 6 points a year ago

People die because they don’t have money.

Money is access to food and water in a capitalist society. You are talking about a trickle down theory which has no incentive to actually do anything to aid society, and just an excuse to hoard.

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olivecrest 2 points a year ago

Absolutely you can be rich and stay rich and and invest well AND do great charitable work, all very ethically.

That is not what we are talking about. Go watch some of those videos that try to explain “a billion”. It’s really hard to wrap your head around the difference- but it’s like cup of water, pool of water vs all the oceans on earth. There is a point beyond which it is unethical to keep all that money.

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