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I sure hope nobody copies this behavior of retribution against the billionaire class which is responsible for almost all of the worlds suffering.
Thoughts and Prayering so hard right now.
I sure hope the internet isn't a reasonable indicator of how the general public feel about CEOs and billionaires. There are in fact many fantastic CEOs and billionaires who donate and focus their time and money and corporations to benefit communities. There's more than a reasonable argument that without billionaires, the planet would be suffering more.
This movement of hating on the mega wealthy is misguided. It's not like billionaires are actually hoarding wealth - they don't have billions stuffed under their bed. They own companies and stock in companies that are worth money. The money is used to create or buy other companies, to invest in other companies, to create new opportunities, to create jobs.
The Board of Directors are decreasing overhead and increasing profit margins to satisfy Wall Street's hunger. This is due to changing government regulations, mostly lead by Republicans. The Republicans want limited government, the dismantling of federal programs, an increase in private corporations, and greater opportunities for the wealthy to generate income off Wall Street speculation.
This act should be condemned and the murderer should be sent to prison.
Murdering one person isn't going to accomplish anything. Murdering all the CEOs isn't going to accomplish anything. It may feel good to you that this person's family has lost someone they love in retribution for all the families who have lost the people they love. But it's not going to prevent anyone else from dying.
Hopefully, after the crowd chills out from seething at the teeth, we can get back to discussing how fucked our health care system is. Oh, sorry - we just elected someone who explicitly says he's going to make health care worse and more expensive.
Maybe we should give a shit about our government and who we're voting for.
Maybe we should be shooting each other instead of these CEOs who present more as a symptom of the illness.
Edit: I'm going to take that back. It's clear that people are just angry about anything and everything. It doesn't matter how or why or its relevance. It's not just the internet, clearly. This is how we ended up with another Trump administration. Irrationality and fear are all that matter. Science, facts, context, intelligence, education; all passé. We are the mob standing by with pitchforks.
I'm not reading all that because there's no such thing as an ethical billionaire. Oh I'm sure they're plenty nice to your face, but you can't earn a billion dollars. You can only steal it.
We're not arguing whether or not you can earn a billion dollars. If that's your argument, being a billionaire has nothing to do with it. You're just pissed at people making maximum money for minimum effort and you think that's unethical. That's call an uninformed opinion.
I just don't waste my time being angry at others for things that have nothing to do with me. I see how my life and the world around me has been benefitted from those with more money than me and I'm grateful. There's a good argument for it but with the alternative being Communism, I just don't see humans accepting a lifestyle of stagnation.
I'm fucking enraged that we live in a system that lets dragons horde mountains of gold while their nextdoor neighbors starve to death or are buried in medical debt that is mathematically impossible to get out of. And idiots like you are over here going, "but guys, Smaug is nice to meeeeee". You being OK with any of it means you're 100% oblivious to the context that this conversation happens in.
Oh no! ANYTHING but THAT! Could you imagine living in a world where people don't die because they can't afford insulin? I shudder just thinking about it. Thank God those disgusting poors die like they're supposed to, that's the American Way™
You actually believe insulin would exist in a communist society? And hospitals?
People taking on medical debt or dying due to poor health care has nothing to do with billionaires. It does have to do with capitalism. It has to do with a government who rejects social safety programs in favor of wall street run corporations. This has been the republican agenda for decades and people keep voting for it.
I really am not sure how to break this to you.
What would you call a government who embraces social safety programs against the interests of wall street run corporations?
That would be one that no one alive today will ever see in the United States.
Its so hard so we should never try and just let all the disgusting poors die like pigs in the street. Got it.
And its not worth ever trying to change anything for future generations, fuck your loser kids, you got yours right?
Quick question, which country has the most doctors per capita in the world?
I didn't ask bout doctors - I said hospitals. The answer to that would be Guinea Bissau. I'll concede this point to you even though the top answers are largely skewed due to the physical size of these locations (Sweden is the most reasonable answer outside tiny Cuba and Monaco).
Help me figure this out. In the region I've lived my whole life, older hospitals that were initially established by churches have been left to crumble or have been bought out by other corporate run healthcare facilities. So, without these new hospitals, in your mind, what would the future of health care have been in this region?
These hospitals all crumbled and failed because they were no longer profitable, which is not a problem that exists in a socialist run country.
Where would the socialist money come from to maintain the hospital? Local tax payers? The State? The Fed? I can tell you the region these hospitals are crumbling in are themselves crumbling. The people who haven't left are poor and have no taxes to help.
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Billionaires have all the money that will ever be needed to fix this problem forever. Your friend (who is 100% part of the problem) included. I want to take their wealth back and invest it in the people, like any functional society worth a damn would do.
I have other friends in sports. Tell me how all the hundreds of millions and billions they've made is exploitive.
first off its not my job to analyze every specific thief. But since I have nothing else to do right now: do you think sport stadiums and sport organizations are just like immutable laws of nature? They're just always there? No, there are legions of people who work to make these events happen, and the athletes steal basically all the money. For crying out loud, the Qatar world cup stadium was built using literal slave labor. All those morally corrupt athletes still played there.
You have ~~thief~~ billionaire athlete friends (a claim I am dubious of). Well, I have friends who work in the sports industry who are 50 and can't afford to move out of their parents basement. They are employed full-time and work at least three jobs.
Ok. Well I can't understand how you think an athlete is stealing money they've signed a contract to receive. Do you think you're stealing money at your job? Is your 50 year old friend stealing money? At what point are you not stealing money? Who decides what's theft or what's not?
You could pay my friend a livable wage so he could live in his own property for the first time in his life or you could keep the money for yourself. You are entirely dependent on him doing his job for you to earn anything, and you choose to keep the money for yourself. And you truly don't see how keeping all the money for yourself is stealing his wages? Oh and also there are hundreds of thousands of people in my friends situation, but there's only like 500 of you.
Do you have any idea how an economy actually works? Money doesn’t build buildings. It doesn’t treat sick patients. It doesn’t conduct medical research. People and their labor do all of that.
Ok. I guess you can work for free.
Yeah and then you won’t be able to pay for housing built by other working class people and food grown by other working class people. Wait that’s weird. I can’t seem to find the billionaires in that equation. It’s almost like the needs of working class people could be met by… other working class people.
Sure is neat how .ml is full of tankies.
So many words and yet you didn’t answer the question.
I did.
Where in your answer did you say. “Cuba has the most doctors per capita”? Because all I see is you trying to weasel your way out of answering directly. I mean like do you even understand how absurd you sound trying to relativize Cuba with Monaco?
I'm not sure how the size of Cuba has any connection to numbers of doctors per capita. In any case, they didn't used to have nearly so many, it was just like any other poor, exploited, undeveloped nation, and people frequently died from lack of care. When the communists came to power, they immediately focused on things like education and healthcare, and now they have so many doctors they regularly send them out to other countries in humanitarian missions, where before they were the ones in need of humanitarian aid. So yes, just looking from past examples, there would definitely be doctors and hospitals with communists in charge, moreso than under capitalism even, and more accessible.
Obviously, you'd just have the state build those hospitals. What reason is there that hospitals should be profit-seeking?