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Topic	Do you think billionaires should exist?
closetjpopfan 11/17/19 10:30:23 AM #97:	StealthRock posted... ThyCorndog posted... Defending billionaires is an emotional argument in itself. Why do you care so much about them if not emotion? Because attacking them honestly is unfair If billionaires should be forced to give up their wealth because we make less, then we should all distribute our wealth to those less fortunate. So kiss your smartphone good bye and give it to a starving kid in India or something. Its only fair. This is actually a very good, perfectly valid point. A couple things though. First of all, giving my smartphone to a starving kid in India isn't going to solve the problem. The kid in India would have to sell the smartphone, to get money, to buy food, and he's going to be competing against his next door neighbor starving kid in India who's trying to sell your smartphone. So the solution is not that easy, nor dramatic. Perhaps this whole idea of wealth redistribution only has so much merit. I'm not saying anything for or against it, but if you want to really solve a problem you change the causes, you don't just reverse the effects. Hey, at least it's addressing the problem. Anything less is honestly beyond the pale. Last but not least, you really should try to use your brain more and your emotions less with these things. Nothing ruins your argument more than when you start with something like "People are bitter and jealous of billionaires". When Bernie Sanders says that there should be no billionaires he's not fucking jealous of billionaires or resents them because he thinks they're bad people. He's just very correctly pointing out that we live in an unfair system that gives rise to huge inequality. Fosters, enforces and perpetuates huge inequality. <cite>closetjpopfan posted [p:930263417] in Do you thi... [t:78165549]...</cite> <quote>StealthRock posted...</cite> <quote>ThyCorndog posted...</cite> <quote>Defending billionaires is an emotional argument in itself. Why do you care so much about them if not emotion? </quote> Because attacking them honestly is unfair If billionaires should be forced to give up their wealth because we make less, then we should all distribute our wealth to those less fortunate. So kiss your smartphone good bye and give it to a starving kid in India or something. Its only fair.</quote> This is actually a very good, perfectly valid point. A couple things though. First of all, giving my smartphone to a starving kid in India isn't going to solve the problem. The kid in India would have to sell the smartphone, to get money, to buy food, and he's going to be competing against his next door neighbor starving kid in India who's trying to sell your smartphone. So the solution is not that easy, nor dramatic. Perhaps this whole idea of wealth redistribution only has so much merit. I'm not saying anything for or against it, but if you want to really solve a problem you change the causes, you don't just reverse the effects. Hey, at least it's addressing the problem. Anything less is honestly beyond the pale. Last but not least, you really should try to use your brain more and your emotions less with these things. Nothing ruins your argument more than when you start with something like "People are bitter and jealous of billionaires". When Bernie Sanders says that there should be no billionaires he's not fucking jealous of billionaires or resents them because he thinks they're bad people. He's just very correctly pointing out that we live in an unfair system that gives rise to huge inequality. Fosters, enforces and perpetuates huge inequality.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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