• VubDapple@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Many people do not grasp the sheer size of the disparity between the truly wealthy and everyone else.

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        4 months ago

        Billionaires are like everyone else. That’s the reason I don’t look up to any. They’re just as human as I am. No amount of money can ever make them anything else or anything more. They have access to an absurd degree, and they can afford far, FAR more, but they will never escape their base human nature. Almost anyone can be a billionaire. Some current billionaires prove that every moment they open their mouths.

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        4 months ago

        Most people will take “freedom” as an axiom, but how “freedom” is defined varies a lot. In a society where the commons are pretty much fully enclosed and you are homeless, the petite-bourgeois may very well be free, but you really aren’t.

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      I believe your comments is just a paraphrase of: “They are being stupid”

      In my opinion this is a very toxic way of thinking and does not try to understand the arguments “the other side” presents.