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> Is there any billionaire out there whose gains prove not to be ill-gotten if we look close enough? This arbitrary and dangerous thinking. But if you really
by tanseydavid 8y ago
> Is there any billionaire out there whose gains prove not to be ill-gotten if we look close enough?
This arbitrary and dangerous thinking.
But if you really feel like it by all means start looking closely at as many billionaires as you can identify and prove that each of their gains were ill-gotten.
Just please avoid the generalization.
- pissgarfield 8y agowhats so dangerous about systemic critique
- max76 8y agoI think the question "Is there any billionaire out there whose gains prove not to be ill-gotten" is a good question to ask. There are over 2000 billionaires in the world, and rich people often pay extra for privacy. Learning about all of them isn't a small feat. It's good and proper to have public discussion about such questions before entering research.
- toomuchtodo 8y agoI would contribute towards crowdfunding for investigative journalism to dive into the finances of billionaires, with the caveat that I'd expect any whistleblower or other awards for finding wrongdoing would be invested back into the enterprise.
- badrequest 8y agoits arbitrary and dangerous to evaluate economic stagnation and profligacy at the hands of a criminal class of sociopaths?
- benj111 8y agoevery billionaire is a criminal sociopath?
- badrequest 8y agothat is the basic question being asked at the root of this thread, is it not?
- monktastic1 8y agoIt is not. It is possible for a fundamentally empathetic person to go against his or her conscience (or to not look too carefully at what they're really doing), and it is useful to distinguish this behavior from that of people who simply have no empathy.
- benj111 8y agoI just wanted to confirm such an extreme view. What if someone wins the lottery (after many roll overs)? At what point do they become criminal sociopaths? When they cross the billion threshold? USD or local currency?
- purplezooey 8y agoBillionaires don't need your help, why choose to lend your efforts to it.