• yeahiknow3@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      26 days ago

      Those billionaires didn’t portal into this world from another reality. Pick any human at random, make them a billionaire, chances are you have another worst-of-the-worst.

      I’d guess fewer than 1/3 of people are “good” (even after being educated). The rest are just dangerously intelligent animals.

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        26 days ago

        Pick any human at random, make them a billionaire, chances are you have another worst-of-the-worst.

        Power corrupts. Our mistake is allowing power to be concentrated.

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          21 days ago

          Nobody’s perfect, but if I had a billion dollars my sole preoccupation would be to spend it as fast and effectively as possible to help people in need. That one criterion alone — a kind of minimum requirement — unfortunately makes me weird. However, I stand by the claim that anyone who would do otherwise is a bad person.

          To be clear, there is a wealth threshold (Maslow’s hierarchy of needs) that few people in the first world achieve, so we can hardly blame them for not donating their meager savings. But a billion dollars is utterly beyond the pale. Hence my example.