Buffett’s foundation, which focuses on humanitarian needs like agriculture, infrastructure and mine clearance, has contributed about $800 million to Ukraine since the start of the full-scale invasion, including $175 million in humanitarian demining.
This is black and white thinking and it’s unproductive.
The rapist analogy is not helpful because it’s merely emotive language and not analogous.
I don’t give a shit what he does, good or bad
billionaire provides $1b in aid to ukraine
billionaire builds satellite internet infrastructure to enrich themselves and then denies it’s use to ukraine
billionaire provides $1b to netanyahu in exchange for an option to buy prime real estate in Pallestine.
If you don’t give a shit about any of these options then you have no credibility and you are the problem.
It would be nice to live in a world where billionaires do not exist but that is not your reality. By rabidly screaming blue bloody murder at any mention of a billionaire you forego any opportunity to limit their impact.
Your examples listed above are skipping the part they are taking issue with, “becoming a billionaire.” The problem isn’t that it’s emotive language, its that you don’t care to focus on the portion they want to focus on.
To become a billionaire you make the vast majority of your money off the backs of other people. Some do it via markets, investment, buying and selling companies and all other things “capitalism.” There are others that do it through actual slavery and other extremely abusive methods. But no billionaires do the work themselves to make this money. And all billionaires could give more back to those doing the actual work, relishing themselves mere millionaires and still never have to worry about money.
Maybe we should be acknowledging when a billionaire does a good thing but not ignore the fact that they are just giving away other’s hard work. Maybe the only real good act a billionaire can do is not be a billionaire.
You would think that but we did have a few tens of millions of people vote for someone who said he was going to fuck up the economy and now these people are all asking what the hell happened.
Maybe we should stop assuming and start calling a spade a spade.
This is black and white thinking and it’s unproductive.
The rapist analogy is not helpful because it’s merely emotive language and not analogous.
If you don’t give a shit about any of these options then you have no credibility and you are the problem.
It would be nice to live in a world where billionaires do not exist but that is not your reality. By rabidly screaming blue bloody murder at any mention of a billionaire you forego any opportunity to limit their impact.
I like you. Very well put.
Your examples listed above are skipping the part they are taking issue with, “becoming a billionaire.” The problem isn’t that it’s emotive language, its that you don’t care to focus on the portion they want to focus on.
To become a billionaire you make the vast majority of your money off the backs of other people. Some do it via markets, investment, buying and selling companies and all other things “capitalism.” There are others that do it through actual slavery and other extremely abusive methods. But no billionaires do the work themselves to make this money. And all billionaires could give more back to those doing the actual work, relishing themselves mere millionaires and still never have to worry about money.
Maybe we should be acknowledging when a billionaire does a good thing but not ignore the fact that they are just giving away other’s hard work. Maybe the only real good act a billionaire can do is not be a billionaire.
Everybody understands that becoming a billionaire is unethical.
Everyone here, anyway.
Except you keep defending them, and blocking anyone who calls you out
You would think that but we did have a few tens of millions of people vote for someone who said he was going to fuck up the economy and now these people are all asking what the hell happened.
Maybe we should stop assuming and start calling a spade a spade.