Democrats want us to believe that there is some cohort of “good billionaires” who can be relied upon to fight for political progress. But as the right-wing turn of tech billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk suggests, this is nonsense.
Anyone who accrues enough money to be a billionaire should be contributing enough back to the society they’re strip mining that they shouldn’t be billionaires. Anyone who doesn’t should be turned into BBQ.
Anyone who accrues enough money to be a billionaire should be contributing enough back to the society they’re strip mining that they shouldn’t be billionaires. Anyone who doesn’t should be turned into BBQ.
That definition is lenient enough to forgive anybody who signed the Bill Gates giving pledge, which the other commenters here clearly disagree with.
I do think it is important to not give away our empathy for normal human beings when the real solution is a system that taxes the rich.