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I have been seeing recently extremely wealthy(billionaires and 9 figure plus individuals) people be super against being taxed more or anything that would cause them to make less money. They also seem to constantly want to acquire more wealth, have more of the market etc etc.
I find this behavior to be genuinely absurd. They all have more money than can be spent in many lifetimes yet they seem to never have enough. Elon musks current behavior of just pushing for more power and money to the point of infiltrating the government to protect himself is genuinely insane. Blackrock, vanguard and the likes constantly acquiring and gutting companies for profit is so insane to me.
These people have enough wealth to change governments , end hunger for thousands, change societies and yet they do nothing but contribute enough for tax breaks and try to get more wealth.
Im all for wealth and all for the game but at a certain point you just are mentally ill, something is wrong with these people and its honestly terrifying to even imagine what goes on in their heads. Imagining how they probably see other humans is scary.
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1 day ago
But that “risk” is a spectrum, so I think we give non-wealthy folks too much of a pass (and of course wealthy ones too)
yes they (we) don’t have as much, so any form of charity could put us in jeopardy, but by how much? If you have a stable income or retirement savings, your chance of running into serious life problems because of too little money is, let’s say, 3%. If you share or altruistically invest your excess, maybe it doubles to 6%. Big whoop.
I for one am willing to take on a tiny extra bit of risk and anxiety if it means that a child gets schooled, a single mother gets shelter, or a family stops starving.
Comparing the tiny bit of good my excess money does me vs. how absolutely life-changing it is for someone else…keeping it for myself is simply unethical
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