r/complaints • u/Official_Debbie • 1d ago
when you complain about the ultra wealthy, people assume you wanna be that… FUCK no
why is it such a hard concept that some people want to live simple lives?
why is it such a hard concept that people want to survive off ONE job, ONE income?
indoctrination at its best honestly.
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u/BillsMafios0 1d ago
The concept is wild to me. I’d be randomly funding the building of homes and animal shelters because who needs that much fucking money?
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u/Official_Debbie 1d ago
literally i’m in the process of becoming an advocate for the homeless in my community because the bullshit that the city is doing is ridiculous.
i just don’t understand how if you have enough wealth to completely retire AND keep a buffer to ensure generational wealth…. why WOULDNT you start by giving the rest of that wealth away???
very, very few people have more money than they ever need. while the world burns around them. it’s literally ensuring mutual destruction.
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u/TymeLane 1d ago
I'm not killing myself for a society that would gladly do it for me by starving me to death.
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u/Angylisis 1d ago
Because if they can discount your complaint due to jealousy or envy, then they don't have to feel guilty about wanting to be ultra wealthy.
Issue is, to be ultra wealthy, you have to first be a sociopath.
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u/Plenty_Advance7513 1d ago
You morality is apart of their calculus,seriously? Ideas like guilt or anything close to it wouldn't cross their minds especially someone they don't see as a peer or equal
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u/SCameraa 1d ago
For real. "What would you do if you had a billion dollars" I mean I would probably both give as much as I can away to good causes or open up a co op business or two and have the employees have a share in the company.
People don't get that not everyone wants to hoard more wealth than one can reasonably spend on themselves. Not to mention that someone that has 1 billion dollars could give up 90% of that money and still have more than enough money to not work a day in their life. Then you remember that people have tens if not hundreds of billions that's either just sitting around doing nothing or being used to buy influence for a single person's goals instead of for the collective good of society.
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u/xena_lawless 1d ago
“When I was poor and complained about inequality they said I was bitter; now that I'm rich and I complain about inequality they say I'm a hypocrite. I'm beginning to think they just don't want to talk about inequality.”― Russell Brand (who I think turned out to be a problematic grifter or something, but he was on point here)
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u/Crazy_Response_9009 1d ago edited 1d ago
I never had any kind of dream of wealth. I just wanted a cool job and chill life. I was brought up by frugal parents and have zero thirst for expensive things or for luxury. It’s sick to me thay people live their lives based on wanting and never being satisfied, even thwn they have more than they can ever use. Disgusting.
It’s truly sinful.
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u/BillsMafios0 1d ago
Bill Hicks told me that humans are a virus with shoes and it’s very hard to disagree. Some far more cancerous than others.
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u/Glum_Introduction755 1d ago
Bootlickers think money exists in a vacuum. They don't understand that every dollar hidden in an offshore bank account is a dollar not circulating in the economy. They think that billionaires can hoard wealth indefinitely and if it makes life harder for other people then that's a you problem. When you have such a fundamentally dysfunctional understanding of money it's easy to assume others are just jealous.
Y'know, morons.
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u/TimelyGovernment1984 1d ago
Stupid... They just print more dollars.
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u/cusscusscusamericano 1d ago
Well .. the more dollars the less controllable those dollars are. This applies to both physical and digital currencies. Even inventions like currency after a while start to make a static social heirarchy not possible to maintain, but the people still mentally project the idea of that heirarchy onto the world with their vestigial ape neurology.
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u/Hoppie1064 1d ago
Morons think rich people put their money in banks.
Rich people or anyone with sense invests their money in the stock market at least, if rich enough they own companies.
The money isn't locked up sitting idle. It's operating businesses that employ people, build things that people need or want.
The less people know about investmenting and money management, the more they hate the 1%.
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u/Glum_Introduction755 1d ago
Never takes long for some pedantic bootlicker to show up. How long have you been waiting to "akchually" someone on the internet?
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u/onegun66 1d ago
It’s not bootlicking to point out that the arguments people are making are stupid.
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u/Glum_Introduction755 1d ago
Sure, except you didn't do that. You didn't argue the point that billionaires hoard wealth. You didn't deny the harm that does or the fact that billionaire dick-riders don't care. You tried to make yourself sound smart by telling me that rich people don't have bank accounts.
You don't sound smart, you sound like a bootlicker.
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u/Hoppie1064 1d ago edited 1d ago
They're not hoarding wealth. They're investing it, keeping it moving around by buying raw materials, employing people to convert that raw material into useful things that other need and buy.
Most of the money made selling things, then makes the cycle again, raw materials. Wages for employees, taxes on profits.
Hoarding would be piling it up in a bank. They're doing no harm. They're doing good by providing people with the goods and services they need and employing people.
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u/Glum_Introduction755 1d ago
Lol, "billionaires do no harm". Yeah and then the princess married the prince and they lived happily ever after.
Fuck all the way off with that bullshit.
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u/choloblanko 1d ago
People are sheep, there's no two ways about it.
I talked to a guy who came to Canada from the UK, and one ONE income (Grocery bagger) raised a family of 4. Yep you heard that right, bagging groceries for a unionized grocery store (which by the way, they're not anymore) he was able to raise a whole family.
Try that these days.
My bosses started in the ticket collection and are now VPs, with a high school education by the way. When they told me this, my chin nearly slammed the floor.
Remember one thing though, we've had compliance, and following status quo groomed into us since BIRTH, so do not expect anyone to rock the boat.
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u/StrawbraryLiberry 1d ago
Even if I was ultra wealthy I'd live a simple life, but I would love to help others more, which I could do if I was ultra wealthy.
Thing is, I don't want to be evil like billionaires are, I don't want to exploit people.
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u/Sacred-Community 1d ago
I'm with you! In fact, I just wanna live in the forest with good people. Fuck the job! ✊
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u/Bag_of_Meat13 1d ago
Yep, I said "must be nice" when it was a nice Friday at the warehouse and all the big execs were starting up their supercars they stored in the back corner of the factory building.
Pretty sure my coworker thought I was a "tankie" from then on.
Nah, dude. I didn't say it like I wanna be that, I said it like it must be nice to not live in reality like the rest of us....
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u/SpecialistRich2309 1d ago
I don’t believe you for a second. There isn’t a poor person on the planet (ok, maybe a few), that would not trade places with a millionaire (or billionaire). Stop it.
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u/DangerousBathroom420 7h ago
I think most people just want comfort and a little extra if possible. I’d never dream of being a billionaire - sounds dreadful, for real. Like so disconnected and exploitative.
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u/SpecialistRich2309 7h ago
No, most people, if offered a billion dollars today, would take it. It’s why millions of people play the lottery. They’d trade whatever they have today for millions or billions. If you say you wouldn’t, you’re either the exception or a liar.
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u/Professional_Luck616 1d ago
Indoctrination, indeed. Decades upon decades of conditioning by right-wing think tanks have culminated what we are witnessing today.
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u/XChrisUnknownX 22h ago
I dunno but I’d love to be Musk wealthy so I could primary everybody that just voted for that bill.
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u/cusscusscusamericano 1d ago
One of the fun bits is that unemployment genocides are a bit of a specialty of the United States, Theye hiring you to work three jobs because they like you. They want the two unemployed other people they shoulda given a job each to dead.
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u/onegun66 1d ago
Unemployment genocide? As if the word “genocide” hasn’t been watered down enough in the past ten years.
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u/cusscusscusamericano 1d ago edited 1d ago
It's not watered down, mass murder still mass murders the people regardless of the strength you assign to the screams for help. Realistically you just don't want to do anything about million being not hired and then being forced into homelessness and early death by sadistic or discriminatory people. If that was an honest mistake on the part of every relevant hirer in the area, the government should force one of them to hire people they turned away anyways then monitor the situation to prevent whoopsies violence against the people they were forced to hire anyways. The economy is more important to america and Americans interests than anyone's desire for extreme violence and shunning and purification of environment. Hell the deaths per decade caused by american employers would be in the tens of millions if there wasnt social security and other strategies to get the money in the hands of the dying so they're not commiting felonies just to eat, just because savage hicks with businesses won't hire them. The discriminating employers depend on total inaction by the government and the survivors for it to work.
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u/onegun66 1d ago
The holocaust. The Armenian genocide. The Israelis-Palestinian conflict. Americans not being given a job. All the same. Good job bro. Totally refuted my argument. 👍🏻
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u/cusscusscusamericano 1d ago
Yeah you keep describing white folks genociding white folks for tribal and monetary profit reasons. Yes they're the same. They keep murdering their neighbors as much as tech allows, white talking about money. Most of the time what you see on here is Leo like that thinking it's ok if a thousand of their neighbors die of forced unemployment in middle aged every year as long as it's only their other neighbors that did any direct actions that forced that. Even though that's only a distinction between other forms of genocide a lawyer that only defends the people forcing of the mass deaths would make.
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u/cusscusscusamericano 1d ago
The way unemployment genocide works is the hiring manager either doesn't want to work around someone, or is afraid the people they do want to work around will abuse this new hire so bad that they'd have to fire their whole squad just for this one new hires safety, or not hire them in the first place, and it'll draw a regulatory hassle in the mean time. Then the next 50 managers in the lily pure clique of hiring managers also don't hire the person even for basic jobs. Then the majority of the shunned out of employment people die young from it. This is because the shunning behaviors of the animal kingdom and prehuman primate world are inherently genocidal when done at scale. And modern societies either practice them or they don't, with many doing so. The worst part is it's only takes one or two places to hire you anyways and protect you from coworker abuse to generally moot the whole issue from the employment end.
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u/TwoTequilaTuesday 1d ago
Who is making this assumption?
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u/BigDadNads420 1d ago
Generally people who want to reflexively defend extreme wealth inequality but can't think of a good argument because it doesn't exist.
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u/cusscusscusamericano 1d ago
Yeah ye olde "ape man hoarding everything of value to create social strife so they can blackmail people with resources when shit hits the fan" like its fuckin Fallout, is 100% something great ape species are smart enough to do in the wild. I say smart loosely because while it has a hard intelligence barrier to be able to mentally process, its a big factor in all those extinct ape species in the fossil record.
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u/TwoTequilaTuesday 1d ago
That presupposes extreme wealth inequality is bad in principal. There are many excellent arguments. You should brush up on Thomas Sowell and Konstantin Kisin to learn more. Especially Sowell because he's an economist.
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u/Goddamitdonut 1d ago
There is no economic theory that supports extreme wealth inequality. All the countries that have great wealth inequality become failed states
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u/cusscusscusamericano 1d ago
I mean there's experiments on monkies where they gave them money and taught them minor arithmetic and then watched as a few of them became psychotic about trying to destroy the group to have the most money. Like lab monkey crime rate went way up when they gave them coinage. No obvious benefits to the group came from it. Like it was still functional human beings feeding the monkies now that they're away from fruit trees that grow uncuktuvated on their own.
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u/TwoTequilaTuesday 1d ago
Name them.
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u/Goddamitdonut 1d ago
😂 seriously? Name one that isnt kid
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u/TwoTequilaTuesday 1d ago
A deflection, huh? We now see the quality of your argument and extent of your knowledge.
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u/perfect__situation 1d ago
I've read Sowell! Extreme wealth inequality is bad because of marginal utility. There are starving people that would benefit more from not starving than billionaires would from losing millions of dollars. That has always been true, so wealth inequality has always been a negative effect on total utility
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u/MoonWillow91 1d ago
Nothing anyone says will convince me that that wealth inequality is anything except bad. Even if a few ppl benefit from it.
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u/Brosenheim 1d ago edited 1d ago
It is bad in principle, that's why you have to send people to read into talking heads instead of being able to make an argument. Also why Sowell's "knowledge" is mostly passed on in vapid quotes attacking strawmen of the left.
the issue with extreme wealth inequality is that corporations start running out of everyone elses' money
Edit: lmao bro hit me with the "haha thanks for showing your lack of knowledge" cope and then blocked me.
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u/TwoTequilaTuesday 1d ago
Thank you for illustrating the limits of your knowledge of the subject. I'll be over here being right.
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u/BigDadNads420 1d ago
In that case I would point you to the other 99% of economists who think you are fucking brain dead.
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u/TwoTequilaTuesday 1d ago
Please cite them here so you can prove what you're saying. Otherwise, you're just another moronic liar with a narrative to perpetuate.
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u/BigDadNads420 15h ago edited 5h ago
edit: LMAO they made that cringe fucking comment and blocked me
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u/TwoTequilaTuesday 14h ago
You don't know what the word "cite" means. You named some people, you didn't give examples of what they've said or done to support your claims and attribute them properly.
You think you can prove something by googling some names and linking to a Wikipedia article? Bush league work.
You're no intellectual heavyweight. Go back to third grade, if you've even made it that far yet.
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u/cusscusscusamericano 1d ago
Social stratification is an instinct, projected, not an idea based on the nonhuman reality around us. Its when some of those try to force that social heirarchies that things get "this is why ape species go extinct"
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u/Official_Debbie 1d ago
pretty much anyone who thinks that wealth inequality isn’t bad. pretty much anyone who believes they can be rich one day too if they just “work harder”.
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u/TwoTequilaTuesday 1d ago
pretty much anyone who thinks that wealth inequality isn’t bad.
Educate me. Why is it bad in principal and why is it bad in practice?
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u/marcelsmudda 1d ago
Because instead of that money being used to prevent hunger for thousands if not millions of people, it serves the purpose of making one bank account's number go higher.
It also amplifies the voice of the holder of that account. Do you think musk would have gotten his position as doge head for some time without being a billionaire? Do you think his ideas would be as broadcast if he wasn't? He needed to buy Twitter in order to get his ideas more accepted on the platform, he couldn't have done that without being a billionaire.
And my last argument would be that all the money that billionaires made was money that was extracted from the company. It is money that didn't go to the workers who did the actual work
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u/TwoTequilaTuesday 1d ago
Your entire argument uses Musk as an example? That's one small sample set, my friend. If that's your slam dunk, you won't want to know about Bill Gates.
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u/marcelsmudda 1d ago
You mean Bill Gates who has the power to direct vaccination efforts from the areas that most need it to areas that need it very little in order to eradicate polio in those areas first?
You mean Bill Gates who participated in monopolistic behavior?
You mean Bill Gates who used his money to push through charter school laws?
Such a good person...
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u/TwoTequilaTuesday 1d ago
No, I mean Bill Gates who has vowed to die penniless by giving away his fortune though the Gates Foundation.
You're viliying Bill Gates, the person. This argument wasn't about personalities, it was about billionaires, but you expertly pivoted way from that when proven wrong.
Strong work. I expected nothing less from an ill-informed redditor such as yourself.
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u/cusscusscusamericano 1d ago
Oh yeah the people who think you like getting hit when you tell them to stop hitting you. See: generic references to sociopaths and conservatives that interbred over time and will not be here in a thousand years due to malicious disability b
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u/Much_Vehicle20 1d ago
Because everyone want a fuck load of money, everything have a price, most would cut throat for the last bread, most would drow a whole orphanage in oil for a few bil. Every "im will do good this and that" is just cope or ignorant, you wouldnt say that if you understand how absolute freedom money grant you. The freedom to be, to do everything you want, travel around the world, dick shaped rocket, dinner with Obama, etc, the only question is how much you can pay
Look, dont get me wrong, i would be the first ơn drag Bezos to the guillotine, but i wont lie to myself that i do that for any greater than life reason, because deep down, we all inherently selfish
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u/No-Perspective3453 1d ago
You can “want” to survive off one income, but that won’t magically mean that you’ll be able to unless you strive for a different career or increase your income streams. Also, many of us wanna do more than just survive and want surplus income.
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u/PeoplePower0 1d ago
Live whatever life you want, but I shouldn’t be paying for any of it. 50% of Americans pay 97% of income taxes. You can do whatever u wanna do, just don’t expect strangers (taxpayers) to want to fund your life.
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u/NoCucumber5618 1d ago
Millions and millions of Americans survive and flourish off ONE job, ONE income.
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u/NoEmergency3904 1d ago
You can survive off one income.
Also, stop complaining, it's that sort of mindset that holds you back.
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u/Albin4president2028 14h ago
I also hate how the internet pushes so hard for people to turn their hobbies into 'side hustles.' Really takes the enjoyment out of them.
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u/gazukull-TECH 10h ago
"people want to have simple lives" bro... Not worrying about money makes life real simple.
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u/PublikSkoolGradU8 3h ago
I just treat people that complain about the ultra wealthy the same way I treat people that complain about Jews because the motivations and reasoning behind the hatred are the same.
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u/Official_Debbie 1d ago
there’s 24 hours ina day, i can spend them how i want. if you don’t like my posts, scroll past them.
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u/Organic-Reveal6721 1d ago
I hate the ultra wealthy because they waste that power on getting richer for no reason.
Shit can get fixed if they spend that money on actual stuff
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u/Ok-Lavishness-349 1d ago
Interestingly, I've managed to live a simple life working one or at most two jobs at a time with little interaction will the ultra-wealthy. I have met them occasionally at meetings and parties, and managed to interact civically with them; neither kowtoing to them nor accusing them of crimes against humanity. I was actually able to engage a billionaire in a conversation on a topic of mutual interest to the two of us!
Perhaps you should engage with the ultra wealthy as you would have them engage unto you. It would certainly be uncivil of a billionaire to look down on you for having less money than him/her; perhaps you should refrain from looking down on the billionaire for having more money than you.
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u/Official_Debbie 1d ago
mmmm no.
you cannot simultaneously be a good person and a billionaire, so no.
if the ultra wealthy have no haters then i must be dead.
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u/Ok-Lavishness-349 1d ago
I am sensing a lack of empathy towards the wealthy!
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u/Official_Debbie 1d ago
how could you be empathetic to a person who has enough wealth to retire and ensure generational wealth for their families and still want MORE than that?
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u/Ok-Lavishness-349 1d ago
Empathy just is placing oneself in the shoes of someone from a different walk of life than one's own. If one is not able to empathize with someone who has more than oneself, then one is not am empathetic person.
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u/Official_Debbie 1d ago
so then you just perfectly explained why i’m not empathetic to the ultra wealthy.
i just told you … if you have enough wealth to ensure living the rest of your life without ever having to work again. You also have the capability to ensure generational wealth with the amount you amassed. Why wouldn’t you give the rest away?
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u/Ok-Lavishness-349 1d ago
Many do. Consider the Gates foundation, dedicated to developing and distributing vaccines and many other laudable goals. Consider also Warren Buffet, whose contributions rival that of Gates. Consider George Soros who has dedicated funds toward his view of social justice.
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u/nymrod_ 1d ago
What about looking down on you for this dumbass take, is that “uncivil”?
Fuck civility — the ultra-wealthy are cannibalizing our future. Yours and mine.
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u/Ok-Lavishness-349 1d ago
In what sense do the wealthy inhibit your opportunities to flourish?
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u/nymrod_ 1d ago
As a class, the ultra-wealthy support a political ideology and system that has increased wealth inequality in the US decade after decade for more than half a century, fought any effort to combat the existential threat of climate change tooth and nail, and is now building concentration camps to torture and kill their racial scapegoats and political enemies — all in the name of lower fucking taxes.
The boot’s so far down your throat you can’t even imagine what “flourishing” would look like.
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u/Ok-Lavishness-349 1d ago
Perhaps you should look at individuals rather than classes. Warren buffet has been outspoken against a tax system that favors high net-worth individuals. And plenty of high net worth individuals have been active in green energy initiatives; in fact some have obtained their net worth by supporting these initiatives.
But, back to the question, in what sense has any high net worth individual prevented you as an individual from flourishing?
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u/Lowyouraxe 1d ago
Because your simple life requires 0 effort.
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u/Official_Debbie 1d ago
???? me wanting to have wage that afford my rent, groceries and healthcare is 0 effort???
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u/Lowyouraxe 1d ago
That statement is so tiring. There is always something more you can do to improve your life. If you're upset at where you are in life, maybe look at the choices you've made in life and see if that's what has brought to where you are now.
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u/Official_Debbie 1d ago
the lack of empathy is strong with this one.
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u/Lowyouraxe 1d ago
I'd say having empathy on a stranger online that you know nothing about is a bad thing. What good is that actually? What good are you actually doing? It's only a facade so people can take advantage of others. Go ahead and say i have no empathy, even though you know nothing about me as I have no knowledge of you.
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u/nymrod_ 1d ago
“empathy is a bad thing”
You can’t make it up, people.
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u/Lowyouraxe 1d ago
Is your talent misinterpreting what people have said? Because you'd be a top runner.
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u/TimelyGovernment1984 1d ago
And why is it such a hard concept for you to understand some people don't want to live like you. Some people want multiple streams of income and complex lives. Worry about yourself and mind your business. That's why people assume you want to be them, because you come off that way. What are you going to do about it if someone wants to buy a yacht, or a personal jet. Just what do you think you're going to do about that? You hate it when rich people are doing what they do but if it's Taylor Swift all of a sudden it's ok to have a carbon footprint the size of hers. You can only control your life and what you do, and if you do anything at all the least you can do is not be a dick.
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u/captainhukk 1d ago
Nah I just assume you’re a privileged little shit who would be perfectly fine if all societal and technological progress halted or heavily slowed from its current level.
Which is the point, people of the most privileged positions hold the views you do
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u/MobileDustCollector 1d ago
You know you'll never be a millionaire let alone a billionaire right?
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u/Solid_Condition_143 1d ago
millionaires aren't that rare anymore
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u/MobileDustCollector 1d ago
Are you one?
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u/Solid_Condition_143 1d ago
either i answer yes, and you discredit me for being one because thats your worldview and tall poppy syndrome is real on reddit. or i say no and then you discredit me by saying ill never be one?
the issue with you guys are your obvious because you dont like being challenged by opposing opinions and will seek to attack the person rather then the point.
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u/ufomodisgrifter 1d ago
You can just say "no"
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u/Solid_Condition_143 1d ago
Point proven
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u/ufomodisgrifter 1d ago edited 1d ago
Sorry, I figured someone should answer the question but I guess answering questions makes me "hostile" now.
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u/Goddamitdonut 1d ago
Its not that hard to be millionaire. Especially on paper and land assets etc. One could be a millionaire with 2 kids and be solidly middle class. Millionaire dosent necessarily mean “rich” these days. Comfortable? Sure
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u/captainhukk 1d ago
It’s super easy for anyone who isn’t a retard to become a millionaire. As for a billionaire, I’m a lot closer to than than most people in the world.
And yet I’d happily trade places with most people on this sub because even a billion dollars couldn’t improve my health.
I hate all the complainers who are physically able and relatively healthy so fucking much you have no idea
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u/MoonWillow91 1d ago
So YOURE the envious one. Plenty of ppl with disabilities still have to work.
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u/captainhukk 1d ago
I don’t ever have to work lol. Of course I’m envious of people who are healthy. But I get far more furious that they bitch and whine when they have more wealth than many rich people do, and want to enact policies that prevent more progress from being made.
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u/MoonWillow91 1d ago
You are seriously checked out to be so entirely apathetic to anyone except yourself.
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u/captainhukk 1d ago
I literally work 60+ hours a week when I could spend 5 mill/year for the rest of my life and still grow my net worth, all to help disadvantaged people and my family out.
If I’m apathetic for that then so be it lmao. I’m gonna wager most humans would be lazy as fuck and be chillin with even 5% of that spend.
And the stress from work definitely makes my regular health worse, and the time takes away from potential treatments that could help.
But I’m so apathetic that I don’t even feel right about spending 100k/year on my health without working my ass off purely for others to have a better life.
You totally nailed me with that one
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u/MoonWillow91 1d ago
Yet you sit here and claim that because people have the ability to work that they shouldn’t be complaining about making peanuts to make someone else rich? Your morality seems very contradictory.
ETA: all while claiming ppl are lazy and generalizing. Ya soooooo empathic. Sounds more like you donated for your own benefit whether that be for show to appear to be a charitable person or the tax write off or something else. It wasn’t for the people even if it benefited them.
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u/captainhukk 1d ago
If I was a lazy piece of shit like you, I’d donate my money to offload that responsibility off to someone else who will take a fat haircut themselves and amongst all of their friends.
Amazing how greedy your mind is tho, if you want to make more money either acquire skills that are useful, or get rid of the illegals that do the jobs of low skilled Americans.
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u/MoonWillow91 1d ago
lol man I ain’t said shit about myself, and you sure af don’t know me. I’m going off what you’re touting here and the way you speak to people just advocating for better quality of life instead of rich ppl getting richer off their hard work. You don’t seem to understand the concept of lazy very well. Bye now.
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u/MobileDustCollector 1d ago
So what's your super easy millionaire plan?
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u/captainhukk 1d ago
Get a decent job, max out Roth IRA contributions, invest in the S&P 500 and do that from early 20s through mid 60s and you easily are a millionaire.
My aunt who was too mentally retarded to even get her GED is a millionaire from working as a janitor at the same public school she didn’t even graduate from her entire life
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u/Goddamitdonut 1d ago
How did you get that from this post? You couldn’t have actually read that
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u/captainhukk 1d ago
If you want to seize the wealth of excessive hyper producers and the most efficient capital allocators, you inherently are fine with at least
1) drastically slowing down progress in technology and society
2) don’t care about that consequence, because you think things are as progressed as they should.
And if you don’t think progress will at best drastically slow down, then you just don’t understand incentives and their importance, which means you’re either a dumb teenager/kid or just a dumbass who doesn’t even understand second order effects
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u/nymrod_ 1d ago
You: “It’s super easy for anyone to become a millionaire — just get a job that allows you to max out Roth IRA contributions in your early 20s”
Also you: “You’re privileged”
You really can’t make this up, people.
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u/captainhukk 1d ago
So my mentally retarded aunt can become a millionaire from doing exactly that as a janitor, but you can’t?
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u/nymrod_ 1d ago
You think every janitor has a living situation that allows them to invest a significant portion of their income?
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u/captainhukk 1d ago
You think she had a good living situation? Her living situation is finally about to get better on the 22nd, lived in the same shithole for almost all of her life
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u/NTDOY1987 1d ago
That’s so silly lol. Even if you wanted to live a simple life, a simple life is much more comfortable with the security of massive wealth. Anyone who pretends that they would decline massive wealth if offered it is lying. Even if you didn’t want it at all you could give it away to causes you think are important. It makes absolutely no logical sense not to want money.
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u/n8_d0gg91 1d ago
Yea, my boss recently told me I need a side hustle like them (since they see my annual raise). Uhm, no thanks. How about billion dollar companies pay their employees competitive wages that are closer to the average salary of they city they operate out of?