Comment on Billionaires shouldn't exist
Draupnir@lemmy.world 15 hours agoAlright man so you want me to satisfy your worldview and sit and point fingers with you at the billionaires for causing you to be where you are. Okay, cool! It’s their fault bro. They steal from you and keep you down.
Feel better? Now where are you?
You’re living a comforting lie if you allow yourself to keep repeating this dogma to yourself, and yet you are in no better of a place in the end.
DmMacniel@feddit.org 15 hours ago
And what comfortable lie would that be?
Draupnir@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Thanks for the context. The comfortable lie is that billionaires are the reason there is a class divide. It’s sinister to believe this both because it is not the correct solution to the problem of inequality, and that it makes the situation feel so wildly out of the power of a person that they do not take action to improve.
It is noble to want to provide comfort, but that is just giving a man the fish. The person first needs to decide to take action against the situation, and also know about the means they have to improve. Giving comfort can be hurtful in that it trains them to rely on the hope of a comfort in their day, rather than to rely on themselves to change their situation.
DmMacniel@feddit.org 14 hours ago
Billionaires are a symptom of social inequality. And just like in health you treat the symptoms first if unable to treat the root cause.
And by moving money from billionaires to actual projects that increases infrastructure and equality for everyone e.g. putting the money to work, isn’t that a good and just cause?
Isnt a solidary society be something we as humans should strive for?