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so fucked up how most of us just want to enjoy our lives peacefully on this planet with people we love and have fun embracing the ridiculousiness of life and yet all our futures are consistently in the hands of a select group of insanely rich corrupt pricks who are some of the worst humans to ever exist
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[–] 83 points 1 year ago (5 children)

It's a paradox. The people who would use such wealth for good almost never become billionaires in the first place. It takes a significant amount of ruthlessness. No one becomes a billionaire without exploitation. And there are a select few who actually follow through on giving up their fortunes (while still alive, I consider the "giving pledge" upon death to be null and void).

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Which is why taxation and regulations around worker protections and wages are so important. If we cannot trust individuals to do good things with their money then they can have a large enough pile to play with and the rest can go back into the world that carried them to their ill-gotten wealth.

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