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It sounds like you have issues with the ultra rich. This is because you can't have ultra rich without the points you mention. Assume you were to set up solutio
by karmakurtisaani 3y ago
It sounds like you have issues with the ultra rich. This is because you can't have ultra rich without the points you mention.
Assume you were to set up solutions to the problems pointed out. The ultra rich would be immediately using their wealth and influence to better their position by working against the guard rails keeping those solutions in place. Why would they not?
- rich_sasha 3y agoIt's like saying it is inevitable that armed forces will stage coups because they have guns, and civilian administrations don't. And yet in highly developed countries, it doesn't happen.
- spacemadness 3y agoSo how do you think these folks got ultra rich in the first place? You need to move the chess pieces in your favor. They didn’t just get that way through pure meritocracy. Your analogy doesn’t hold.
- rich_sasha 3y agoIt's a different argument. Are you now saying ultra rich are definitely crooks? Zuckerberg and other techno-royals are definitely ultra rich, and some aren't very nice people, but fundamentally they made their money in entirely legal and reasonable ways (through I'd argue in many cases tax appears to be underpaid). I'd argue they were mostly lucky, and probably also competent. But I don't feel that their wealth is somehow wrongly acquired.
- karmakurtisaani 3y agoYou don't have to insist all ultra rich are crooks. It's enough that even one of them wants to influence politics. How much influence can you buy with a net worth of 10 billion? With a few politicians in your pocket it turns into 20 billion in no time.