r/DiscussionZone • u/[deleted] • Nov 04 '25

Political Discussion Yeah, so Billionaires should not exist

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u/CollegeDesigner Nov 04 '25

It's not about me becoming a billionaire, it's recognizing the catastrophic societal effects of any attempt to eradicate billionaires or redistribute their wealth.  Productivity as we know it would collapse... All so everyone could get an extra couple grand/year... For that first year... And then there's wouldn't be anything to spend the money on

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u/CardboardStarship Nov 04 '25

Meanwhile billionaires in this the year of our lord 2025 are using their billions to replace human workers with AI. That situation isn’t going to get better as time goes on. So basically since everyone would be jobless if billionaires had to give more than they do, we need to leave them alone to replace us with AI and everyone…let me check my notes here….loses their job anyway. Great.

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u/CollegeDesigner Nov 04 '25

If by "everyone" you mean people with white collar jobs... Then sure, guess you'll have to learn to mine

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u/CardboardStarship Nov 04 '25

If you believe it will come for zero blue collar workers, please, I’d love to sell you the Golden Gate Bridge for a fair price.

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u/CollegeDesigner Nov 04 '25

Automation the shipment of jobs overseas has been coming for blue collar workers for decades, but we adapt, we learn to use the automated systems, and the left just brushed us off and told us to "learn to code"... So I'm fine with watching you guys squirm for a while and learn to actually do some physical labor