bilby
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Bezos is donating $200M to the Smithsonian, so it’s not like he’s only spending his fortune on himself. I don’t understand all the hate for these rocket flights. We don’t know who it will inspire or what technological advancements may come. What should he do, ride around the Mediterranean on a super yacht doing very unsavory things like some other super rich folks who have been in the news lately?
No, he - like everyone else, shouldn't be super rich at all.
Nobody has done enough in their lives to deserve such wealth. Nobody.
OK, maybe Stanislav Petrov. Maybe. And he never got any wealth in return for his genuinely meritorious actions.
Fuck them all. If you've got, let's say, 500x median income for your nation or more, you should pay 100% tax on all further income. We can hand out a trophy with "You won capitalism" on it or something. Maybe put up a statue of them for the pigeons to crap on. But nobody in the history of the world has done enough with their lives to earn more than $16M in today's dollars.
He created that wealth. Why shouldn't he be allowed to have it?
He created some of that wealth. He used infrastructure, labour, and direct cash assistance from the state to do this. Why should he be allowed to keep all, or even most, of it?