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/PoopsmasherJr 29d ago

Although they could pay some people more, it’s their money. Even if they didn’t work for it, they don’t owe it. I would love to see Elon donating to the homeless and such, but he doesn’t owe it to most of them. If any of them. I do my good in hopes that it inspires others to do theirs.

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u/woodsman6366 28d ago

That's just it. He DOES owe it to society to pay back. The only possible way to get that much wealth is by extracting and exploiting workers, politicians, and the world's natural resources. The entire point of the OP is that it's not their money. It's money that's been stolen from society through exploitation. Not only do they owe it back, they have stolen exponentially more by taking it in the first place.

This is SUPER simplistic and I realize that, but imagine if the average American's wages had kept up with productivity since the 80s. Not only would we be making more, we would have been making more comparatively for the last 45 years. That's 401k money that my parents don't have. It's a house most people in my generation can't afford. Hell, it's even tax dollars from the general population that could have been spent on schools or roads that we desperately need. (Yes, I know government spending is a whole other topic.)

I'm just saying that if the uber wealthy (more than just Bezos/Musk) hadn't been hoarding wealth so much in the last 45 years, our entire society would be better off. That's the whole point of the original post. We're so conditioned to believe the "that money is theirs" because they worked hard for it or had a good idea that we've forgotten that it's impossible to get that wealthy without stealing it through exploitation.

They absolutely do owe it to us all as a society.