What would the world look like if billionaires actually helped the people?
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Well it was a GREAT point.
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No billionaires
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It's not enough to put him on my favorable list. Have you used Microsoft lately?
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For sure wealth should be taxed, but OPs idea that it's just unused billions sitting around is untrue. People shouldn't belief in falsehoods. Also if you try to argue for wealth tax, and get something basic like this wrong, the argument is already lost.
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No, all my systems are Linux. Work is W11 and I have to keep deleting ai.exe and aimgr.exe from the vfs MS office16 folders or the AI takes most of my processor for no reason and my applications run like molasses.
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Of course it isn't just sitting around unused, it's being reinvested to make more money. Billionaires typically put most of their net worth into assets and stocks and then live off of loans, just like the comic I posted alludes to. Just because they don't have literal piles of cash sitting around doesn't mean they aren't absurdly wealthy.
And let's be honest, if a billionaire wanted a Scrooge McDuck style gold pile they could have it arranged within a week at most.
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Bloomberg and others are funding the Paris agreement for the US, where the government pulled out: https://www.bloomberg.org/press/un-special-envoy-michael-r-bloomberg-announces-effort-to-ensure-u-s-honors-paris-agreement-commitments/
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This is canon in Shadowrun.
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Thanks to the first sentence, I read this comment in the voice of The Narrator from George of the Jungle.
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Whoa, that makes it so much better. Thank you! Here's the imdb for the narrator of the '97 movie:
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They can't. Its not a matter of personal greed, its just how capitalism works, it creates immense wealth for a few on one end and mass immiseration for the masses on the other. Billionaires exist because of the system that creates them.
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110% it's from dysfunction that is how our current system is designed. We use so many archaic processes to do things, still rely on old very outdated infrastructure, coal power etc.
It's too inconvenient to switch to green energy because the rich live good and like the lifestyle the cost is higher for green energy but that circles back to a made up monetary system. What is cost when paper has little intrinsic value?
Just go talk to your average person not even a rich person pick a middle class person. People are not willing to make any concessions at all in their lifestyles to save others and help the collective good. Very few will even family members complain of issues but won't change how they operate and consume.
I don't think we fully lack the supply but bear in mind things are finite and we are seeing what little we have left diminish and nations are fighting over mineral deposits. That is why I said we have supply chain, logistics, transportation issues above all because those sectors allow the most efficient delivery and utilization of our resource expenditures so we net lose little as possible.
I think until we find a better source of fuel for major transportation of goods in bulk basically something revolutionary. We are kind of stuck not fully but held with one hand behind our back. The only sector I think compares to the effeciency we need are perhaps trains.
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Bill Gates brought you that so he could be the world's richest man.
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Exactly, that's why I don't have one.
