HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
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its about it being more than last year and more than everybody else."
Yes, but more importantly, it is about power.
This is why I say: #AbolishBillionaires.--Quite different from socialism.
Millionaires are OK, as humans mostly aren't altruistic.
#Elmo's power is unprecedented.
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I'm tempted to pick examples of billionaires who aren't evil and whose existence as billionaires is a net positive.
But I'm not sure that there's any point. You're not dealing with the consequences.
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Would #BillGates be on your list? 😇
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HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
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He is much more if a mixed bag than you might think:
"The result has been a new model of charity in which the most direct beneficiaries are sometimes not the world’s poor but the world’s wealthiest, in which the goal is not to help the needy but to help the rich help the needy."
This is from a 2020 article.*
I saw an updated version of the article last month.
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He's a mixed bag. He made his billions by producing plenty of value, and lots of millionaires on the side. Then again, the business itself was often unethical. And then, in his retirement, he's spending his billions to help people.
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
"It's greedy to accumulate billions. You should use it to help the world." - you
"No, not like that!" - also you"
I've said nothing of the kind.
Billionaires* and outfits like the #FederalistSociety destroy democracies.
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I am unimpressed with such criticism.
"It's greedy to accumulate billions. You should use it to help the world." - you
"No, not like that!" - also you
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