• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Do people legitimately not understand that going after middle managers while billionaires exist is fucking stupid?

    And that the billionaire class would love that to be the diving line because that greatly increases the amount of people on their side.

    There’s not many billionaires, start at the top and work down.

    Starting at the bottom and working up is so stupid of an idea I struggle to give people benefit of the doubt on why they’d think this was a good idea or try to promote it.

    • Fandangalo@lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      Let’s say you made $50k/year. It would take you 20,000 years to make a billion.

      Let’s say you make $1m/year. It would take you 1,000 years to make a billion.

      A billion is a dumb, immoral amount, and we have humans with hundreds of them, in theory. If you make a billion dollars, whatever earnings after should be taxed at 100%. It’s not “socialist” to make this claim. Rather, it’s inhuman to argue the opposite.

      • Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world
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        7 days ago

        Id cap it at $10 million. I legitimately cant find a non-philanthropic use for $10 million.

        Some quick napkin math says i can spend about $1.7 million before running out of ideas to spend money on. Thats a 4b/2ba house, replacement car, backup car, house mods, gifts for family/friends, and a giant fuck you overkill server rack build for whatever tech projects i want.

        Put the rest in a garbage, basic ass savings fund and im already making more passively than i do manually now. I could blow $2k a day on literally anything and still make money.

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          6 days ago

          Just building a nice community center costs millions, upkeep exists too. Generally such kind of projects are very expensive. We have lots of parks and buildings from, say, 200 years ago because off rich ass people. Very unlike people like Musk or Zuckerberg who leave nothing behind. We can easily argue that Gates did a lot of good things with his money, again, very unlike the those 2 people.