I draw the line at $200m. If you are hoarding wealth so much that you own more than $200m in assets, you are a psycho.
It's an arbitrary amount well beyond enough to money to live a dream life without worries outside of the inevitable.
Wherever you want to argue the line is, it is far far far away from a billion. A billion dollars is actually obscene as I said. A sickening amount of resource hoarding to the extent that it is undeniably genuine violent misanthropy.
I draw the line at $200m. If you are hoarding wealth so much that you own more than $200m in assets, you are a psycho.
So if I take one penny out and get just below that line, I'm safe?
If not, do you see the sippery-slope your emotional argument is making since you do not have a logically sound one? Notice how your point is weak and just about subctive stances on morality instead of any objective metrics?
You didn't even say USD or if that was inflation-adjusted or not.
We deserve shitty leaders until regular people like us bring more nuance into our average conversations.
So if I take one penny out and get just below that line, I'm safe?
Yeah, sure.
our point is weak and just about subctive stances on morality instead of any objective metrics.
This is not unique to resource-hoarding... We make moral values into objective metrics for loads of things (quick obvious examples: age of consent, gestation limits for abortions).
You didn't even say USD or if that was inflation-adjusted or not.
I figured it literally would go without saying in the discussion. People aren't talking about people with a billion zimbabwean dollars or whathaveyou when they criticise the evilness of billionaires.
We deserve shitty leaders until regular people like us bring more nuance into our average conversations.
Lol, wut? Speak for yourself. We are capable of having nuanced conversations and also reaching obvious, correct conclusions. As I said wherever any reasonable person is drawing the line about how much is too much to hoard... it is a loooong way before $1billion.
Having wealth doesn't make one inherently evil and terrible. However objectively evil people tend to excel at gaining obscene amounts of wealth because they don't care how much damage they do to get it...like Elon for example.
I agree we need more nuance in our lives but its really not hard to understand why people say things like "people don't need more than $200 million" when the only billionaires we have thrust into our lives are power hungry pieces of shit like Musk, Bezos, the human reptile, and Trump...none of them are good people and keep collecting unfathomable amounts of wealth beyond what they need while pushing for shit thats going to hurt the common man financially.
Sure there are good rich people who are very philanthropic with their wealth but we don't hear about them hardly ever and it doesn't seem like the majority so why should people change their mind on the rich until they see more from them?
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u/BrahneRazaAlexandros 6h ago
It's obscene. Being a billionaire means you are inherently a psychopath.