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You know who is a good billionaire? Steve Wozniak.
Because he got his, more than he could ever need, and then he decided to stop. Since then he's lived on his ranch and participated in tech outreach ever since
You could self publish and live in luxury at $100 million. You could keep making music, hell you could do it in complete creative freedom
Why would you want to become an avatar of wealth?
Power. At some point money stops being what it is to most people and becomes leverage to do things. The truly wealthy don't have to worry about having the ability to buy things, they shift to being able to influence and control stuff. Now, that can certainly be used for good, so there's the difference between the perceived good and bad billionaire.
Now that's a totally different argument, but it's bullshit
Being a billionaire means you cease to be a person. Your personal finances are a corporation that does nothing but take
Point to a good billionaire. I'll point you to a PR firm and probably pictures at Epstein's Island with half naked children
There are no good billionaires. That's both prescrive and descriptive, it's just not a real thing for a whole host of reasons
Woz isn't even close to being a Billionaire
Woz would have been a billionaire if he didn't sell his shares, which is my entire point. Good billionaires would've cashed out long before reaching that crazy level of hoard
Mostly agreed, but if Woz had gone billionaire, he'd have more to give. I wouldn't pursue such a life myself though.
You literally can't be a billionaire and give it away. You'd start giving long before that if you ever would part with more than slivers of your dragon hoard
Well technically even if they buy a ranch and self publish all their own works with their own studios then their assets are still more welath than most people will ever earn.
The only way to truly get rid of wealth is to give it to somebody else.
So? The world isn't fair. I don't begrudge people who have more than me, frankly I'm way more disturbed that anyone has less than me
It's fine to be rich. Especially if you actually earned it through your own efforts
It's not fine to hoard so much it destroys the fucking world, and that's what it means to be a billionaire
I begrudge people sitting on billions of dollars while others starve.
Yeah, and those people are destroying the world
If someone has ten million? Good for them. A hundred? Pushing it, but not so much that their mere existence means others must starve
A billion? No, fuck off, your sheer hoard kills people systematically