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Topic	Do you think billionaires should exist?
Fuparulez 11/16/19 9:06:05 AM #9:	HURGGHHH BILLIONAIRES ARE EVIL! Now ask yourself how many thousands upon thousands of families have put food on the table and sent kids through college because they worked for Bill Gates or Warren Buffet. Myopic people who don't understand economics like Alex Cortez see Jezz Bezos building a helicopter pad and go "That's immoral! Nobody needs that!" while ignoring all the people who are employed in that project. The engineers who designed it. The fabricators who made the pieces. The people who drive the trucks transporting those pieces. The ironworkers who assemble them. Everyone else along the line who earns a living with money that comes from a billionaire somewhere up the stream. How many man hours do you think it takes to start with "I want a helicopter pad" to a finished helicopter pad? A lot of people making a lot of money. ArchiePeck posted... I think they should have the potential to, yes. But it's hard to see how anyone can become one without profiting out of significant exploitation of labor in some form or another. Bill Gates done it through ruthless market domination, which is different I guess. But when I read about how bad it is to work in an Amazon warehouse or something I do feel it is a little wrong that someone is making that scale of money and the workers facilitating it are struggling to get by. OH NOES exploitation of labor! People are struggling to get by! Meanwhile, in the real world, wages are up and taxes are down. People are earning more money and keeping a larger portion of it. Unemployment is at record lows, workforce participation is going up, and the record high stock market means their investments are doing tremendous. You can buy into all the doom and gloom you want: life is pretty damn good for Americans with jobs right now and if you're struggling, Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos aren't what's holding you down. You need a mirror to figure out the bogeyman in that scenario. If you believe you are being "exploited," go get a new job. The economy is roaring and the jobs are out there. You can't be "exploited" at a position you voluntarily took. --- It's the fat upper kitty area, and if you got one I wanna marry ya! <cite>Fuparulez posted [p:930215045] in Do you thi... [t:78165549]...</cite> <quote>HURGGHHH BILLIONAIRES ARE EVIL! Now ask yourself how many thousands upon thousands of families have put food on the table and sent kids through college because they worked for Bill Gates or Warren Buffet. Myopic people who don't understand economics like Alex Cortez see Jezz Bezos building a helicopter pad and go "That's immoral! Nobody needs that!" while ignoring all the people who are employed in that project. The engineers who designed it. The fabricators who made the pieces. The people who drive the trucks transporting those pieces. The ironworkers who assemble them. Everyone else along the line who earns a living with money that comes from a billionaire somewhere up the stream. How many man hours do you think it takes to start with "I want a helicopter pad" to a finished helicopter pad? A lot of people making a lot of money. ArchiePeck posted...</cite> <quote>I think they should have the potential to, yes. But it's hard to see how anyone can become one without profiting out of significant exploitation of labor in some form or another. Bill Gates done it through ruthless market domination, which is different I guess. But when I read about how bad it is to work in an Amazon warehouse or something I do feel it is a little wrong that someone is making that scale of money and the workers facilitating it are struggling to get by. </quote> OH NOES exploitation of labor! People are struggling to get by! Meanwhile, in the real world, wages are up and taxes are down. People are earning more money and keeping a larger portion of it. Unemployment is at record lows, workforce participation is going up, and the record high stock market means their investments are doing tremendous. You can buy into all the doom and gloom you want: life is pretty damn good for Americans with jobs right now and if you're struggling, Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos aren't what's holding you down. You need a mirror to figure out the bogeyman in that scenario. If you believe you are being "exploited," go get a new job. The economy is roaring and the jobs are out there. You can't be "exploited" at a position you voluntarily took. --- It's the fat upper kitty area, and if you got one I wanna marry ya!</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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