• Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I got into it with someone I worked with [who made exactly as much as me.] Asked what would someone buy with $5 billion that they couldn’t get with $1 billion. He couldn’t come up with something, but was still going to defend someone else’s right to have it.

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        1 year ago

        At the expense of giving 100,000 people a $1000,000 raise, which would massively stimulate the economy.

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          And those 100,000 people being the country’s industrial elite, the raise being tax breaks for those people, and the country being USA.

          You could run on a over the counter GOP ticket.

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                Yeah the conservative fine print is really becoming their front page material fast.

                It’s like, they don’t have to cover it up anymore, decades of political brainwashing has gotten enough people on board with the original psychosis for them to just flaunt it.

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                  Abortion access is really hurting them on that front.

                  It’s all well and good to obsess over and villanise minorities like trans people that have no meaningful effect on conservative lives, but you start attaching a life-long responsibility to another human for an accident, and people aren’t going to like it.

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      The only issue I can think of is that when people reach that billion, they’ll just close up shop cause why continue if your revenue is limited to your spending habits. I’d want the answer to that question to be “out of the goodness of my heart” or “to help people” but I sadly don’t think a lot of them would do so

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        Your commnet reminds be about a story I heard. A American guy graduated college and then volunteered to go out and do good in the world. After a year he checked in with some of his fellow grads and saw how much they were making. He did some calculations and decided that he should come back to the USA and get a job. He got a great job with a big salary, and by living frugally he was able to donate enough to support five aide workers.

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          That should be more common, especially among “Christians”. But people rarely act altruistically. That’s what makes it nice when they do.

          Donate to Doctors Without Borders (or something similar) people. Charities have volunteers coming out their ears.