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damnedfurry@lemmy.world 7 months agoPeace can only come when there is no need to be greedy, especially among a handful of billionaires.
The implication that all conflict originates in resource scarcity is incredibly naive.
You subtly dropped your mask, there, but I know enough to recognize your ideology. We’re just a few exchanges from “all struggles are power struggles where one is the oppressor and the other is the oppressed, and will inevitably culminate in violence”.
Save it for someone more gullible. I’m exiting this thread.
Bottom line: billionaires are not the cause of poverty. Ironically, the increase in billionaires is correlated with a decrease in poverty. You would not be any less poor if Amazon never existed.
Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Scarcity? I said greed. The rich are among the greediest, and they are far from living in scarcity.
What I’m saying is that there would be no need for conflict if everyone’s needs were met. Although billionaires contradict this statement, I tend to exclude psychopaths and mentally unstable people when referring to the whole of society.
The business model that created billionaires is exactly what causes hard-working people to not have enough to afford to retire.
Please don’t fool yourself into thinking that a system that incentivizes wealth hoarding is not a major part of the problem.