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I remember this study done:
"Today's rich families in Florence, Italy, were rich 700 years ago"
https://www.vox.com/2016/5/18/11691818/barone-mocetti-florence
The only German in the top 10 of the richest Germans that didn't inherit that spot is the founder of Biontec - and while he did a great job there it's just sheer luck that the pandemic hit when it did
B…but muh bootstraps???
Water is wet.
The sky is blue.
Yachts are an indefensible source of carbon emissions.
sails
Incoming Republicans who live in a trailer park to get upset at you over talking shit about something only the rich own
If you stacked all the billionaires in the world, head to toe, starting at the bottom of the Mariana Trench... it'd be a start.
Good thing Ocean's Gate already started that process for us.
The problem is that wealth correlates directly with power in the West. You'll never see a Western billionaire get Jack Ma'd, and that's the problem: Western billionaires have less accountability and more rights than the average citizen.
Jack Ma didn't get knocked down because he's rich.
It was because he pissed off the CPC.
Not that I want to defend any mega-rich person, but he seemed to be using the influence that his wealth allowed him to speak out against actual oppressors.
There are no good billionaires. Only people who bypass regulations and cause immense suffering can get there. Idk why y'all are so mad about China getting rid of one lol
The world ain't binary.
Even among shitty billionaires there is a range of more and less bad.
Yeah, democracy my ass lol
You're saying that like it's a unique problem to the West. Do you think Asian billionaires don't have extra rights and latitude?
The rich typically hate welfare...unless that welfare is unearned wealth passed down to children.
Hey!! My dad worked very hard to inherit his wealth from his father, so I should benefit from that too! - billionaires
That statement is true for **every ** generation of billionaires, not just the current one.
Musk, Gates, Bezos, and Zuckerberg all had multi millionaire parents that gave them "small loans" that catapulted them to billionaires. Now their fortunes, made in our lifetime by the labor of others, will be locked up for the next 400 years while people starve or die of preventable and treatable diseases.
Edit: Removed a raping skunk.
Will be locked up for the next 400 years while people starve or die of preventable and treatable diseases.
It really doesn't have to be. The French figured this out a long time ago.
The French also existed within the same reality that they could agree on.
The right and left in America might as well be living in alternative realities... On the right they'll defend this to the death, they'll fight for Bezos as he crushes their local economies and they'll lick musks boots as long as he keeps "sticking it to the libs."
Unfortunately they also got way too happy with guillotines and devolved into anarchy. Robespierre had his reign of terror, and then he had his own head chopped off.
I'm not saying we don't redistribute their wealth. Let's just be careful to not do it in a way that leads to repeated redistribution because violence is normalized.
As broken and deplorable as the people on that list are, you're doing work for trump here by casually equating him with that lot. He's not an actual billionaire. It's as if you said, "look at the most eligible bachelors of all time... Marc Antony, Rudolph Valentino, Brad Pitt and Pepe Le'pew"
One of them was adjacent to females to be sure, but he was a cartoon skunk rapist. Don't help carry water for a cartoon skunk rapist.
Fair point. I like how you phrased it.
I like how you edit out the "raping skunk" from your comment - and then somebody else just posts it without consequence XD
It used to be true, and it still is.
Why is this a surprise, exactly?
It still needs to be repeated over and over since people are absolutely opposing a higher inheritance tax thinking it would influence them inheriting their grandma's house because that's how those populists are usually spinning it...
Ikr? Everyone today grinding for that "generational wealth" and I honestly don't see why. Do people really want more spoiled brats in the world?
You seem to be mistaking a chance to give your family a place to live with whatever the fuck a billion is supposed to offer them.
"work". Well, i guess it's networking.
Imagine working so hard, you end up getting birthed by a billionaire! Keep pulling those bootstraps peasants!
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Is it different for the current generation?