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).

I think about this every... single... day.

Why don't we all just collectively say "no"? What the fuck would these 70–80-year old dick-tators do then?! NOTHING.

At this point it's a clear problem of human bias. We love our instincts so much that when we have sufficient power, we'll assure that people never challenge them, even when the offices we hold require reason contrary to those instincts.

The whole bit about bullshit jobs serves as an example, because our upper management desire to hold court and have courtiers and garden hermits buzzing about them like components of an orrery (I'm teaching my spellchecker words today).

In the media industry the process of crunching developers to make deadlines (even though it kills productivity and slows the rate of progress) is another example, and yet all the AAA game development companies do it... or are doing it so long as they exist. Our private equity firms are now doing to the big ones what was once done to Toys 'r Us, leaving a sinkhole of debt and bankruptcy where there was once a reputable company.

Our inability to see our community past our top fifty Facebook friends (or fellow villagers) prevents us from thinking in terms of cooperating with society, rather we deign ourselves part of the true Americans (or Belgians or Maoists or whatever), and so we fail to recognize personal greed as a mental disorder, rather a moral failing.

In a Star Trek society, someone who hoarded liquidatable assets would be regarded similar to someone who filled their house with junk (and hopefully not as they are abused on Bravo), we'd intervene, put them in a rehab center for a year, where they learn to exist in the comfort of minimalism. But in our own world, extremely wealthy people are regarded as a a higher strata of person, given power and authority to command PMCs, and eventually swarm-armies of killer robots managed by AI.

Currently, our tolerance of human billionaires is killing us, and it poses a global catastrophic risk not just of the human species but of 90%+ of all species on the planet.

I would cut off both my arms if it meant I could kick a billionaire to death.

Pedo island reoccurring patrons were all politically connected. Trump now trying to release the guilty child trafficking member from prison

peaceful enjoyment is a luxury apparently only afforded to the people actively ruining it for everyone else.

So what can we do about this?

... and who get to live that ideal livelihood while making sure nobody else can.

Every era, lather, rinse, and repeat.

Super profound

So, I'm a terrible person, but im a fun terrible person.

I propose making me queen of the world, here's why:

I woukd fet rid of all the dumb limits

Unless they're funny

Id try to stop bad stuff

Then id kill myself, because regicide is on my bucket list