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I guarantee you the $8 billion he gave away was better spent than whatever the government spends multiples of that on every day. And that’s why allowing private
by monero-xmr 3y ago
I guarantee you the $8 billion he gave away was better spent than whatever the government spends multiples of that on every day. And that’s why allowing private people to amass large wealth is useful to society.
- kadoban 3y agoThe choice isn't between the government or billionares,
- jjtheblunt 3y ago> And that’s why allowing private people to amass large wealth is useful to society. Do you mean private people who give it all away, from your first sentence?
- irjustin 3y agoI get the sentiment, but i sincerely doubt it. Plus billionaires giving their money away willingly seems hard to guarantee.
- daguava 3y agoTrickle down economics does not work, we've got textbooks on this.
- dang 3y agoOk, but please don't take HN threads on generic ideological tangents. They're not the kind of conversation this site is for. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=generic%20ideolog%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor... https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html