r/SipsTea • u/DelicateAurora • 8h ago

Lmao gottem Valid point

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u/THELEADERPLAYER 6h ago

Does that mean having 999M$ to your name is okay? 500M? 100M? 50M? Where should we draw this line?

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u/BrahneRazaAlexandros 5h ago

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.

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u/Aegi 5h ago

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.

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u/BrahneRazaAlexandros 4h ago

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.