Sorry, but they must all be eaten. There should be no billionaires.
this post was submitted on 12 Nov 2025
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Gabe and Swift are not obligate billionaires. They both have the capacity to adjust their wealth to avoid the cutoff.
In ten years people will talking about the GabeCube killing PC modularity like they always saw it coming
I obviously should've posted this to unpopularopinions. Still, you guys need to really slow down and enjoy your showers more, JESUS.
There's a real easy way for him to not be eaten. Make sure he has no more than $999, 999,999 in his pocket when we get there
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There is a finite amount of money in this world. For one person to have more means others have less. There is no going around that simple fact.
8 people now have more than 53% of the world combined.
There is a finite amount of money in this world.
Not really... that's kind of the whole point of fiat currencies, you can always mint more.
Most billionaires don't even have any money. At that level they don't need it. They don't pay for things. They just get loans they'll never pay back, with older loans as collateral.
The problem with billionaires isn't money (though billionaires are one of the main problems with money). The problem with billionaires is that their fiat, virtual, wealth gives them an unfair amount of influence over everyone else's lives, and that they alone get to enjoy a living standard (being able to get all your necessities and live a fulfilling life essentially for free) that should (and could, with an adequate distribution of resources) be available to everyone.
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Just universal wealth redistribution, there is no way a human may ever deserve to accumulate so many resources...
I want to say that Gabe is a good guy, because he's a gamer like many of us, and because Valve is so pro-consumer, and because supposedly the company is mostly rid of hierarchy, but he's still a billionaire unfortunately.