• octopus_ink@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    It might effectively trigger people like you. Maybe that’s a reflection of your own inability to create wealth for yourself.

    I had to stop when you started in with the ad hom like you did against the other guy.

    My parting tip to you - if you assume that the only way people could disagree with you is if they are failures in life, that’s a fairly shallow and myopic view.

    Challenge yourself to imagine what you could actually do to deserve to be one of those 8 people in the meme. (Try to think more specifically than ‘work really hard.’) You are one of 8 people who collectively hold more wealth than the next 3.6 Billion combined. Many of those 3.6 billion are suffering. What exactly could you have done that makes that a deserving position to be in? And has anyone alive done that thing?

    Good day to you.

    • Frank Ring@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Everybody is suffering. Not only the 3.6 billions.

      In your world, it seems like being a billionaire is the ultimate end of suffering. Eventually, everyone dies. Even billionaires.

      I think they simply have problems that we can’t relate to. I don’t know what it’s like to be a billionaire.

      Should they share that wealth? I don’t know. Maybe? Maybe not?

      Now, I don’t think I’m defending them. But as a business owner, a part of me values wealth creation and capitalism.