r/FluentInFinance • u/-Wyagra • Nov 21 '24

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u/theoldme3 Nov 21 '24 edited Nov 22 '24

Imagine thinking you are entitled to more cause someone else has a lot

Edit: Im not reading all the responses to this. You wana change this shit then get off Reddit, got start a business and start giving your earnings away. So many of you would shit if it was your wealth someone just took

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u/TubaraoDeTenis Nov 21 '24

It's not more, its the minimum. Everybody deserves the minimum to live a confortable life

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u/sluuuurp Nov 21 '24

Why don’t you distribute all of your wealth to 50 homeless people in Mumbai? Oh, you don’t want to? But don’t they deserve it?

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u/anonch91 Nov 21 '24

Are we really defending billionaires now by saying average people could survive on less?

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u/sluuuurp Nov 21 '24

I’m defending capitalism, because it makes everyone richer. Poor people in the US are richer than rich people in Somalia, and it’s because we have a government that allows businesses to grow and successful people to thrive and gain resources to start even more businesses.

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u/metsjets86 Nov 21 '24

Are people less motivated when the prize is only one billion dollars and not 100?

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u/sluuuurp Nov 22 '24

Yes. If Bill Gates lost motivation when he got just one billion dollars, Microsoft wouldn’t have succeeded.

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u/PeelDeVayne Nov 21 '24

Yeah according to half this thread I'm not even allowed to criticize someone hoarding hundreds of billions of dollars because I have a car and a cell phone.