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Wealth inequality is bad. But arguments like the one in the link are pointless - Bezos could have 10x the money he does and it has nothing to do with humanitar
by preommr 3y ago
Wealth inequality is bad.
But arguments like the one in the link are pointless - Bezos could have 10x the money he does and it has nothing to do with humanitarian efforts. The government spends way more, countries spend way more and problems don't get fixed.
I'd like to see that 9 billion for all cancer treatments graphed against the trillions americans spend on healthcare cumalatively. Or if we really wanted to be snide about it, the total americans spent on pointless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Billionaires shouldn't exist because market forces and taxes should eventually chip away at that wealth. But people make it seem like all the world's problems will be solved if billionaires just suddenly lost their wealth.
- troupe 3y agoImagine a scenario where the entire population is starving. That is a bad situation. Now imagine that a few people figure out how to create food and as a result, almost everyone has enough food to keep themselves alive, but the people who discovered the way to make food have billions of times more food than the average person--way more than they need. I am much more concerned about raising the standard of living for the average person than being worried about trying to prevent someone from being wildly successful. Personally, Amazon has increased my standard of living and the same is true for a large portion of the US...which is why the company is so valuable.