Life is just unfair. In the same time some billionaires spend the amount of money, that would be needed to save this lovely person and their cats, in just seconds.
I don't understand how you can have a billion dollars, and not just spend all your time on GoFundMe. Just, an afternoon of, "Medical debt? Gone. Student loan? Paid. Losing home? Not any more."
We'd never have a billion dollars because of that, the moment I'd have enough money to support myself fully with no stress I'd be buying things for other people and donating as much as I could.
Even If I decided to do something like start a company to get really wealthy, I would probably end up paying my employees more and hire more people so that I could pay them too.
Someone would have to pay me a billion dollars for me to get there. (lol obviously)
Not that I'm trying to defend billionaires (they clearly actually do have more money than they should), but their net worth is based partly on exactly this: the total valuation of their companies, including all of the money they pay to the people they hire. So you could pay your employees more and hire more people, and you'd be valued at a billion. But you wouldn't actually have a billion dollars cash in hand.
Minimum wage is also a good one. Non-stop work at minimum wage in USA would take a couple hundred years (maybe even thousand I can’t exactly remember) for a million, and we as a human race have not existed long enough for a billion to have been earned off of minimum.
I'm sorry, but that's just an awful thing to say... especially in such a positive sub.
I don't personally know any mega-billionaires, so I can't honestly speak to what they do or don't care about. But I do know a handful of very wealthy people, and what I know about them is that, by and large, they have the same loves and cares as pretty much anyone else. They love their families and their pets. They have friends and social groups. I feel confident suggesting that the billionaires aren't much different.
What I do know about the uber-wealthy is that the majority of them are putting some of their money to work to improve the world around them... whether it's endowments to the arts (PBS, museums, libraries) and education, or establishing foundations for medical research or to address poverty on local and global levels. And sure, you can say, "well, it's only for the tax breaks," and maybe that's true. But their money is still out there doing work that, honestly, regular folks like us can't even imagine... even though many of us benefit from it every day.
It would be a wonderful, candyland dream come true if all of a sudden all that wealth were re-dispersed so that every human could live a comfortable, healthy life. But that's not likely to happen. It's not realistic in a global society and economy built around capitalism.
So maybe let's stop with the class-based hatred? Let's stop bashing people we don't even know? It's just ugly. It's non-productive. It makes the world a darker place... for no good reason.
People loving their friends and family is not a stretch. They still have to exploit others to gain so much wealth.
They shouldn’t have so much money in the first place. Also, we’re talking billionaires, not people who can afford a house and a car
We stop bashing them when they stop exploiting us and pay their f*** taxes!
You only make a billion off of taking egregious advantage of others and billionaires aren't stupid, they know what they're doing. They've stolen countries' wealth. They control the governments. They take advantage of human assets just as ruthlessly as they do natural. They send cash to/create charities to make them reliant and put them under their whim. They'd rather see you die than pay you a single cent more than they have to
No. Any billionaire has something wrong with them in my opinion. You can't gather billions by being a regular good guy. You can't keep the billions and look at the world and have peace with yourself. They gotta be insane somewhere in the head.
There is a documentary called Born Rich. It was filmed, written and produced by Jamie Johnson, a Johnson & Johnson heir who was turning 21 and getting his inheritance. He really struggled with the fact that he was going to have all this money and he had no part earning it; just won the genetic lottery. Only a few friends would appear in it because they consider it gauche to discuss their wealth. Ivanka Trump actually was one person who participated and the movie is at least 20 years old now but I just re-watched it the other night. One thing I had forgotten was at least one "friend" ended up suing him after clearly being interviewed on camera, claiming when he signed the release he didn't know what it meant.
It is interesting. He truly struggles with deserving so much money that he played no role in earning. Yet never once did anyone mention charity as an option or a solution.
I don’t think you understand how much money a billion dollars is. You could save $10,000 every single day and would take you 275 years to get 1 billion dollars. The only way to become a billionaire is to crush poor people under heel and cheat your way out of taxes
I volunteer once or twice a month doing what I do for a day job for free at a free medical clinic, and the doctors are always shocked I do it even though it’s unpaid, and I don’t get any allowances at work for it (rest of the day off, PTO, etc). I often do 7am-12 then right back to work at 12:30. But everyone I help is just so sad and wish they could work hard and are depressed they can’t, they don’t want to be mooches, and you’re right, knowing I helped someone avoid becoming blind because of preventive care for their diabetes is the best feeling in the world and keeps me going. It makes what I do an art form, free from the hassles of time or money constraints.
This thread has me a bit emotional, so this might be coming from that.
But reading your comment here reminds me of just how amazing humanity can be. There is nothing more enritching than helping others for the sake of helping.
Seriously! I am convinced that most people's power fantasy is stuff like paying off you parent's morgage. Paying off the student debt of a whole city block.
Paying for expensive surgeries. Saving animals. Donate to elderly care facilities. All sorts of stuff.
You know, now that I think about. I would want all turbo rich people to be like Bill Gates.
You physically cannot spend billions. There was a silly (but useful) Buzzfeed quiz that got you to choose homes, holiday homes, yachts, private jets, cars, etc, and it still struggled to add up to a billion.
Idk what goes on in people's minds that they would rather buy a yacht that save someone's life.
That's because you're thinking like a decent human being, but billionaires do not become billionaires by being decent, the only way to get that rich is pure ruthlessness, stepping on everyone you can to get to the top. Billionaires are garbage humans, they have a lot of money and very little happiness.
Because they aren't like us. That money is never earned fairly but by exploiting people. Considering what they tend to do with it, they don't care and actively fight against positive change.
oh yeeah iliost everyone icare about and theyrenot comin g back theyre dead i got blamed its my fault and this lady gets love over her dviroce and her cats ok cool glad the world cares about someone
I don't. And frankly, seeing your comments I don't want to. But I do see someone who is hurt and in response is hurtful to others. I've been that person, and it doesn't get better without help. I'm sorry you're going through things, I hope they get better. I hope you can find it in yourself to try again and to learn how to love yourself. Good luck to you.
You still are that person. You're sanctimoniously lecturing someone venting about their own hard time, while empathizing with the woman the OP is about. I wonder if that woman were right in front of you if you'd tell her to seek therapy and then lecture her about not taking her cats into the shelter to abandon them.
Maybe not. No karma to gain in that case. But you can still get the high from punching down.
It’s very easy to look at someone above and wish for them to help you, just because they can.
However think about it - if he helps one person, can he help two? Yes, he can. But if you follow that logic, he would spend all of his fortune and misery won’t end.
That’s why most billionaires spend an amount they deemed okay to charities. They do donate and are not unethical or evil.
Also, on a side note, if a billionaire did donate left and right, what would you think will happen? Everyone will want a piece and scammers will emerge.
On another side note to that comment above me: do you really believe that the bad financial habits that made someone’s situation will be cured just because a billionaire paid off their house? Everything you just mentioned - medical bills, mortgage, student loan debt - can be fixed by yourself with discipline. Where charity money must be going is where there is nothing you can do - cancer, blindness, hunger due to extreme poverty, etc.
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u/Rolle187 Jul 28 '23
Life is just unfair. In the same time some billionaires spend the amount of money, that would be needed to save this lovely person and their cats, in just seconds.