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It's a pretty poor argument when your own summary of the opposing side > the only way to become a billionaire is by exploiting people needs to be revised to a
by waisbrot 6y ago
It's a pretty poor argument when your own summary of the opposing side
> the only way to become a billionaire is by exploiting people
needs to be revised to a keener straw-man in your very next paragraph:
> the key to becoming a billionaire — the defining feature of billionaires — was to exploit people
Here he's swapping necessary-but-not-sufficient for definitionally-equal-to.
- travisjungroth 6y agoAnd then later brings up that there are exploitative people that aren’t billionaires. Never is the central point, that exploitation is necessary for becoming a billionaire, ever refuted.