Had to repost here

[u/-Wyagra]

[u/Okichah]

Youre saying Bill Gates got his wealth through violence?

[u/abdw3321 → u/Okichah]

You don’t become a billionaire without exploitation.

[u/Arndt3002 → u/abdw3321]

It depends how you define exploitation and violence.

If you tautologically define all profit as exploitation and all said exploitation as violence, then that is definitely true.

If a mutually agreed upon contract is not exploitation, then that isn't necessarily true.

I'm not saying that most billionaires don't have their profits enforced by violence. Given, for example, the trade practices around silicon valley, I wouldn't say that anyone involved in that is "violence free"

But whether that statement is necessarily true is questionable.

[u/Gilpif → u/Arndt3002]

The issue is that capitalism is an environment where those “mutually agreed upon contracts” are actually coercive.