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the author complains that the stock market is up since its lows and labels that as fat cats getting rich again. > It is not right that society’s richest people
by glofish 6y ago
the author complains that the stock market is up since its lows and labels that as fat cats getting rich again.
> It is not right that society’s richest people profit from this crisis while millions fall into desperate poverty. I include myself in this.
there is an easy way to start rectifying this injustice, if the author truly believes it is not fair. He can donate his wealth to the government - yes that is a thing. Will he do it? After all he argues it is fundamentally unfair. Writing an editorial is just talk, time he does the walk.
- narak 6y agoThis has always been a shit argument. Injustice has to be fixed across the board, otherwise it's a tax on just the honest/moral people.
- glofish 6y agoI am talking about the choice of word and testing wether he means it or not. If he said that the would not mind paying more for taxes, that is ok. Saying "it is not fair" is just populist BS - would you keep money that you honestly thought was given unfairly to you?
- Nevermark 6y agoYou are being pedantic. Think: a sincere declaration of a willingness to cooperatively sacrifice to solve a group problem, if others do too. Don't think: an offer to individually self-immolate, which would not solve the problem. That is a straw man test of whether someone "means" business.
- colejohnson66 6y agoAh yes, because a millionaire is gonna make a dent in the multi-trillion dollar deficit. No. What will help fix wealth inequality is not donations from rich people; it’s the government. There’s more non-philanthropic rich people than philanthropic ones.
- mthoms 6y agoThis is such a tired and lazy argument. 1) The "easy way" is not the same as the "correct and effective way". 2) He's young, retired, enormously wealthy, and can do anything he wants. But still donated his time/energy to help educate people about wealth inequality. To you, it may be "just talk" but he's already doing way more than 99.9% of people in his position.
- DamnYuppie 6y agoSo he will preach about wealth inequality but won't go and give his wealth to the poor, but will instead donate his time and energy telling everyone how other wealthy people should pay more.
- about_help 6y agoThat is a poor argument and not even really correct. He is advocating for higher taxes on the wealthy which would indeed take away from his own wealth. You can't expect people to sacrifice themselves completely to help others when the necessary changes are systemic and not individual.
- digitaltrees 6y agoAn individual action is not a solution for a systemic problem. His personal donation will do nothing to solve the problem.
- glofish 6y agoit will show if he is serious about saying it "is not fair" Imagine you are in a position when something happens that you believe is unfair and you have a way to reduce that unfairness, even just a tiny bit. Wouldn't you do it? Would you only write an editorial and not rectify it?
- jjeaff 6y agoDid he say that he doesn't give his wealth to the poor?