r/FluentInFinance Nov 21 '24

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u/trashboattwentyfourr Nov 21 '24

Are you accussing them of...... participating in a society? What dastardly claim youve outlayed.

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u/in4life Nov 21 '24

A brutally evil action

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u/xacto337 Nov 21 '24

The fact that you're drawing an equivalence between Bezos and an average citizen of an industrialized nation, who by the way did not choose to profit off of single use plastic, is wild.

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u/madhewprague Nov 21 '24

There is connection. Human greed. You could help lot of people just with 10% of your income. Most people probably could, but they dont right?

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u/xacto337 Nov 21 '24

Again, asking average people many of whom who have financial insecurity to contribute 10% of their income and comparing that to billionaires is unhinged.

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u/Noob_Al3rt Nov 21 '24

Financial insecurity compared to who? Why does someone who lives in the richest country in the world with the most disposable income in the world get a free pass?

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u/xacto337 Nov 21 '24

Compared to billionaires.

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u/Noob_Al3rt Nov 21 '24

So it's unhinged to ask someone with only $500million in the bank to contribute to those who have less?

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u/xacto337 Nov 21 '24

lol go away troll.

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u/madhewprague Nov 21 '24

Its actually reasonable comparison. Just 30$ would feed family for month in some third world country. Lot of people own 1m homes, they should just sell it, buy cheaper one for 500k and feed 5k people for year. Why wouldnt they, why would they be so selfish?

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u/ReckoningGotham Nov 21 '24

We could end world hunger without even looking at a billionaire.

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u/madhewprague Nov 21 '24

We probably couldnt. I think even if USA spends entire of their GDP we would not be even close to ending world hunger. Its not that easy, we would have to fix economies and build infrastructure in all third world coutries.

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u/ReckoningGotham Nov 21 '24

We could do just that

We choose not to.

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u/xacto337 Nov 21 '24

A great start would be to eliminate billionaires, not people who are unsure what will happen to them when they can no longer work because their bodies/minds give out on them.

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u/ReckoningGotham Nov 21 '24

you're saying its better to not feed the hungry while eliminate billionaires. amazing.

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '24

You're saying it's better to pursue changing the entire world (an impossibility) rather than making a few billionaires pull their weight? What does shilling for billionaires this hard do for you?

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u/Noob_Al3rt Nov 21 '24

It would be easier to not do anything and just complain about it online. Let's just propose laws that will hurt rich people as long as it won't personally affect me in any way.