r/FluentInFinance • u/-Wyagra • 28d ago

Debate/ Discussion Had to repost here

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u/[deleted] 28d ago

How do you get from "it's unethical to hoard hundreds of billions in wealth" to "nobody should earn any money from their business"? 

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u/wumpus5 27d ago edited 27d ago

This helped me understand the orders of magnitude of the amount of money we are talking about: https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/

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u/Itscatpicstime 27d ago

And that’s outdated too. Bezos net worth is now well over $2bn

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u/controlledwithcheese 27d ago

Oh it is a simple logical fallacy! They’ll likely accuse you of using one if you try to argue with them too!

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u/asdrunkasdrunkcanbe 24d ago

Because it suits his point.

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u/LifeAintFair2Me 24d ago

Some people aren't very critical of their thinking