This is what capitalism does by design. Resources accumulate upward until some entity forcibly redistributes it (government, populous revolution, etc). It is a system that always leads to the detriment of the many for the vanity and power of the few it deems “winners.”
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Lemmist@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Yes, that is sad that in modern society all rich people, who have resources to make a big difference, are degenerates. And nice people who actually would like to make that difference are poor and simply cannot.
ToadOfHypnosis@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
Yeah, just talked to my wife about this. Imagine what good someone with Musks resources could do. Instead he chooses to go pull up the ladder behind him and making life more difficult for everyone
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
That’s the thing. That’s an oxymoron. One can’t have musks resources and be a good person. To get such resources, one has, by design, to be the kind of person who thrives in Capitalism. Evil.
furrowsofar@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
There tends to be truth in that You do not get mega weathy without stealing the money from someone either legally or otherwise.
Not all wealthy people are total crap though. Then there are those that were not great in thier earning years and then try to patch it up with philanthropy later.
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Philanthropy has always been a way for the wealthy to whitewash themselves of the evil that made them wealthy. It’s never designed to actually fix the things they broke and the lives they ruined. Look into it’s history from its start with the robber barons. Look how bill gates is giving millions in philanthropy and yet “somehow” grows still more wealthy and controls immense amounts of agricultural land. It’s another capitalist ploy.
themurphy@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
And that’s why politican salaries should be caped. Everyone can be corrupted, even if they started good.
furrowsofar@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
Political salaries are more or less caped. It is campain financing that is the issue and lack of IRV. It is also the lack of some term limits or maybe age limits. We have too many fossils in congress that have not brought younger people along, Also too many old presidents, In my lifetime Reagon, Biden. and Trump were too old.
We also do not choose the best leaders Nixon was not capable at the end and Clinton was just inappropriate in the workplace those these were personnal issues. Then there is the question of which ones were even up to the job.
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Maybe people can be corrupted. But I think it’s selection biases. If you’re the type of person to fuck people over to earn money (big buisness) or to seek power above others (politics), maybe you were corrupted in the first place? I mean it’s hard to make it in either of those without doing a lot of morally questionable stuff.
realitista@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Exactly. Having obscene wealth means he already went through a sorting out process which shows without a doubt that he has some kind of mental problem like NPD, psychopathy, or sociopathy. Normal people when they get a few million bucks will start spending more time with their families, pursuing their hobbies, etc.
meliante@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
If he was a good person he wouldn’t have the resources in the first place…