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How much could you possibly need to live a good life? Certainly not more than, say, $50 per day, right? Let’s simply cap ourselves there. I say this to demonst
by the_optimist 5y ago
How much could you possibly need to live a good life? Certainly not more than, say, $50 per day, right? Let’s simply cap ourselves there.
I say this to demonstrate that “ungodly” always means “more than me,” irrespective of all else. Justification through jealousy. A recipe for a lowest-common denominator society, at global scale.
- permo-w 5y ago>How much could you possibly need to live a good life? Certainly not more than, say, $50 per day, right? Let’s simply cap ourselves there You say that as if it's ridiculous. That sounds fine to me. Warren Buffet espouses exactly the same thing I'm saying. Is that jealousy too? Ungodly means more than you need. No one needs a billion dollars. The top marginal tax rate was 90% in the 1960s, and guess what? inequality was much lower