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It's easy to blame billionaires or other far away people, but rotten businessmen and politicians wouldn't have floated to the top unless the underlying society
by carlosjobim 2y ago
It's easy to blame billionaires or other far away people, but rotten businessmen and politicians wouldn't have floated to the top unless the underlying society wasn't also rotten. Avarice is a global and local issue, most of us have family members with this disease. Most people here on this board will succumb to the disease in time. That's why people are hesitant to talk about it or solve the problem. Instead we blame billionaires or the president or the archduke of Austria, thinking that they are the root of the problem.
- Draiken 2y agoAgreed. To be fair, personally I don't blame billionaires per se. They are mere proxies for the real issue: the profit motive. But it's easier to sell that billionaires should not exist than it is to sell that we shouldn't seek to profit over each other, given how profitable it is for a few and how much some people hopelessly seek wealth.