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[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

Behind every great fortune is a great crime.

The love of money is the root of all evil.

Billionaires don't come to own entire cities and countries by being nice to others.

[–]LancerCaptain_Rooney 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Great crime by what? Creating new things? Being innovators? Improving quality pf life? Seems like a weak argument to me

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

By taking credit for the efforts and ideas of thousands of others beneath them, in the form of disproportionate monetary payment.

I guess you think Kings and Queens were all benevolent rulers and feudalism was entirely fine as a system of government too?

If things are so great, why is the middle class smaller than ever? Why is CEO to worker pay 450x to 1, when in most European countries it's limited to 70x by law?

The consolidation of capital to billionaires, at the cost of millions of everyday people, is hard to construe as beneficial in the long-run.

[–]LancerCaptain_Rooney 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Theres no problem with consolidation of capital. A problem arises when the government steps in and controls our lives. I agree fuedalism is bad because people were held hostage to a government. The free market holds nobody hostage. People have choice on what they can do. Its beautiful really.

Billionaires dont cost millions of everyday people anything.

[–]Jesus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Does a free market include monopolies. And many billionaires do owe the lower classes money when they scheme off of predatory financialization. Plus, money buys congress and our government who is in bed with many of these wlite billionaires, not all though.

[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The free market holds nobody hostage.

That's the thing though, it does, in a way. It's not truly free when there are so many monopolies that use dirty tactics to shut down rivals.