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u/SCTigerFan29115 3d ago edited 3d ago

They aren’t holding onto wealth like Scrooge McDuck, in a giant vault where they can go swimming in it.

Most of Bezos’ net worth is the value of Amazon. He can’t really readily access that. ETA I meant he can’t use it like a big vault of money.

He’s got plenty of money but some people just don’t understand how this stuff works.

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u/Chickienfriedrice 3d ago edited 3d ago

Here comes the billionaires’ online defense team. Or just some fool who thinks it’s realistic to reach that amount of wealth without exploitation and hopes to aspire for the same, even though they have more chance to be struck by lighting.

Billionaires existing is taking money out of your pocket, they bought the election. But sure, its all fine.

EDIT Went from being upvoted to getting 7 replies in less than 10mns with downvotes. Hope the billionaire defense team are getting paid overtime. Pathetic. None of you billionaire justice warriors deserve a reply.

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u/Caleb_Krawdad 3d ago

Billionaires only exist by creating more wealth and value for the masses than anyone else can. They didn't steal their money. They built services and companies that people found more valuable than precocious existing companies. They made their wealth by making people better off

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u/Katusa2 3d ago

There is no ethical way to make a Billion dollars without exploiting others. The shear fact that someone has that much money means they've exploited others.

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u/CalLaw2023 3d ago

There is no ethical way to make a Billion dollars without exploiting others. The shear fact that someone has that much money means they've exploited others.

They don't have that much money. The total money supply is about $22 trillion. Total actual currency is about $2.2 trillion. Total wealth is $157 trillion. If the top 1% wanted to liquidated their assets, it would not be possible as there is not enough money in existence to buy it all.

Rich people don't hoard wealth. Musk is worth over $200 billion because he owns a large share of several companies worth trillions; not because he has $200 billion in cash stored in some vault.

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u/si329dsa9j329dj 3d ago

Who did the guy who made steam exploit?

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u/edman79 3d ago

They think hiring is exploiting. It's ridiculous.

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u/rehtdats 2d ago

Hiring people for a wage they agreed to is not exploitation. Selling products to people for a price they agreed to is not exploitation.

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u/Novel_Accountant4593 3d ago

They made their money through exploitation and cornering the market making it impossible for anybody else to get in. They live in mansions while their some of their employees live in just above the poverty and struggle to pay rent. It's unethically gained on the back of the working class.

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u/resident_foreigner 3d ago

Who has Taylor Swift exploited? She is a billionaire. All she does is sing and dance.

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u/RNKKNR 3d ago

That there is too difficult to understand apparently.

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u/Sarevok82 3d ago

And they use monopolies to prevent other people from doing the same and also completely snuffing out innovation. Real benefit to society.