I genuinely don’t understand why this perspective is so popular.
Probably because you've got one boot stuck so deep down your throat you can't see the other one stomping on your own neck, as well as everyone's around you (including the people they "help", only after having exploited them first, as well as maintaining and exclusively benefiting from the systems that keep them poor and sick in the first place, of course).. ¯\(ツ)/¯
whoreticulture@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
Because we shouldn’t be, and don’t need to be, relying on the goodwill of Billionaires to solve social problems. Instead of giving tax breaks for billionaires to pick and choose which issues to fund, we should tax the billionaires out of existence and democratically decide what to do with our money.
fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
What a silly thing to say.
No one is saying “oh yes well we need billionaires because they donate all their money to worthy causes”.
Billionaires shouldn’t exist, but if we’re getting out the guillotine I don’t really understand why Gates should be first in line.
whoreticulture@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
People absolutely say that, “philanthrocapitalism” is a nerdy word for it it, but that basic argument comes up in a lot of contexts … pay attention.
fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Only an idiot would make such a claim. Lots of idiots say lots of stupid things. It’s still not a reason for the hatred of gates.