| mountaindewslave said: that's delusional and in fact blatantly wrong. |
In cases like this you should be more constructive ...
| mountaindewslave said: a massive percentage of the worlds billionaires have INHERITED their networth. we are seeing a lot of random billionaires pop up today from tech companies exploding out of nowhere, yes, but they are not the majority families who control huge corporations are a big percentage of the billionaire's out there. or individuals who got money directly from their parents. Think a Donald Trump (individual wealthy parent) or a rich family who controls a company (think the Wal-mart family) and it is pretty fucked up |
You lie, the truth is most billionaires have earned their wealth. The vast majority huge corporations are either state owned or publicly traded so I highly doubt family owned businesses make up a large portion of the billionaires like you say ...
| mountaindewslave said: I don't care how you cut it or shake it, there should be some degree of limit on how much money a person can have. if anything, if you're a person somehow netting like billions of dollars every year or over the years your tax rate should go up astronomically |
Taxes are often just government mandated thievery and you should feel ashamed for advocating such a thing ...
| mountaindewslave said: and some of these billionaires ARE in poor countries people seem to mistakenly label China a 'world power' and as not exactly a third world country, but it SORT of IS. a vast majority of the people living in China are extremely poor and many are starving. China also I believe has the most billionaires in the world. the disparity between the richest in China vs. the poorest in China is massive. its the same way everywhere obviously, but the point is some countries with a vast majority of struggling citizens can have tons of billionaires. you have to look at a country's total GDP and then consider their total POPULATION if you want to really get down to which places have the biggest disparity between the rich and the poor |
Why can't we have billionaires in poor countries ? Better the few getting quality lifetimes than having none at all ...
| mountaindewslave said: at any rate obviously its terrible for some to have billions of dollars and some to starve. unfortunately politics and the massive divided way the world is cut up will make it near impossible to ever fix this all I know though is that a billionaire should be sick to their stomach driving around in a lamghorini while others starve. and by others, like a billion people on the planet I can give some excuse to the everyday guy not constantly being bothered by this, but anyone who feels comfortable with a billion dollars while others struggle is just an absolute ass hole |
Why should the rich have to support the poor or feel guilty for the less fortunate ? Life is not supposed to be some charity you think it is ...
| mountaindewslave said: and the OP's stat of 62 people having as much money as 3.5 billion is just depressing and if anything a big sign that the world and individual countries need reform. wealth limits should be a thing. No one works 'hard enough' to have that much money. again, the majority of billionaries got 'lucky' by owning a tech company that exploded because of the internet OR are a person who inherited it from family. bear in mind that many of the giant family names you can see in industry history 100 or 200 years ago are STILL around and the richest people |
Effort =/= Gains
It's not all about working, it's about been financially smart ...
