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coldneuron t1_ist6cd6 wrote

Reply to comment by Bewaretheicespiders in [OC] World's Top 10 Richest in 2022: Gautam Adani Makes Billions, the Rest Loses Them by waynehihihi

I don’t understand how billionaires who are created that way owe society anything. They are only rich because people decide they are. If everyone in America suddenly decided I was a billionaire I’d think they were all insane. And if they then decided I owed more taxes because they imagined I was wealthy I’d think they were extra nuts.

If I earn money I can pay taxes on that. If someone says my shoes are suddenly a billion dollars they’d better be willing to give me a billion dollars for it.

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Bewaretheicespiders t1_ist7rut wrote

People have forgotten that wealth is created. They thus think thats its a zero-sum game (its not). And so they (wrongly) think that is someone has more net worth, it must mean that they took it from other people.

Sadly societies that start to revile wealth creation quickly go on a path of poverty.

edit: Because markets are going down, did you notice we didnt get those how much time did it take for these billionnaires to ""earn"" X million dollar since January 1st news time this year haha.

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