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• Doomsider@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I was saying we need something positive to benefit society and the wealthy person to deal with people accumulating too much wealth.

  The story just shows us it is possible and makes me think of other possibilities.

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  • plyth@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Which other possibilities do you have in mind?

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    • Doomsider@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It has to be a solution that benefits both parties, but I also recognize that one party is giving up something tangible.

      They have to be compensated in some real way. That is why I propose make a wish for the ultra wealthy. We pick an obscenely rich person, take 99% of what they own, and give them the one thing money can’t buy. A real wish that can be anything humans can reasonably provide.

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      • plyth@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        The problem is that the money comes with power. They already get something just by owning it.

        If a billionaire asks you to be their partner for life and to love them, as the one thing that money can’t buy, would you?

        I think if people create a community that billionaires want to join in exchange for their money, wouldn’t that community already be so thriving that they don’t need the money? *

        And if the community needs the money, what could offload the guilt that comes with the money? The community would become the billionaire.

        * strange that people don’t try to do that, even without money.

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