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I appreciate the sentiment, but I'm more comfortable with wealth in the hands of progressive billionaires than a government that's likely to go on a regressive
by madrox 4y ago
I appreciate the sentiment, but I'm more comfortable with wealth in the hands of progressive billionaires than a government that's likely to go on a regressive tear every four years.
- endorphine 4y agoFalse dichotomy?
- madrox 4y agoOnly because the comment I originally replied to started it billionaires should not exist at all.
- Veen 4y agoYou're making a big assumption that billionaires are or will remain "progressive," whatever that word means to you.
- madrox 4y agoI mean it in the dictionary definition of the term: a person advocating or implementing social reform or new, liberal ideas. I'm aware there are conservative billionaires. I don't think that negates my view that you're more likely to see long term progress on many issues through private funding. US government budgets swing wildly every few years depending on what ideology is in power. By design, that's a conservative force (in the traditional sense). My government is simply not designed to do a lot of the things we sometimes want it to do, like cure malaria.