• jpeps@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    While I don’t think it’s true, I could accept the idea that it were possible to make that much money ethically. However, having that much and not doing good with it? To me that’s the bigger evil. Billionaires should be extincting themselves.

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      11 months ago

      Entertainers could be an exception to the evil billionaire rule, but even Swift was doing things like renting out her jet, and her shows have a huge carbon footprint as well.

      If she were paying for the pollution, the profit margins wouldn’t be so high.

      Also we just need to tax most of the income over $1 million a year. Like we did before the 80s greed is good bullshit started.

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        11 months ago

        Like this, it should just be harder by the mechanics of the game to just keep amassing dollars. Sure, you can have massively successful concerts and live an amazing life. Just pay for them in what it actually costs to society.

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      11 months ago

      Here’s a quick and simple example of how much $1 million ($1,000,000,000,) is compared to $1 billion ($1,000,000,000,000.)

      1 million seconds equals 11.57 days. 1 billion seconds equals 31.71 years. Days v.s. YEARS!

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      11 months ago

      I think ever having that money, unless it’s just shit into your lap for some reason, precludes you from being the kind of person who can do that good. It takes a level of cutthroat and a degree of psychopathy to accumulate that much wealth in a single lifetime. So in essence, having and making that much are both fucked.