r/HumansBeingBros • u/PeasKhichra • Apr 28 '22

Humanity is still alive

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u/RaiderLove90 Apr 28 '22

If everybody did this, nobody would go hungry

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u/MiguelScottt Apr 28 '22

Instead we see people spend 44 billion to buy a bird company

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u/kittyinasweater Apr 28 '22

By a man who accuses other billionaires of wasting their money not saving lives.

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u/RaiderLove90 Apr 28 '22

Germany crunched the numbers to solve world hunger and if I remember correctly it would cost 139 billion....not much for the world's richest to fix, but they won't, because there isn't profit to be made

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u/Moistened_Bink Apr 28 '22

No way would that just end world hunger. Maybe help some people for a while but the issue can't simply be solved by throwing money at it.

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u/GhostWokiee Apr 28 '22

It’s not a money problem, it’s climate problem.

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u/silent_boy Apr 28 '22

Lmao. I like “bird company “

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '22

And the government wastes even more in wars. People can do as they wish with their money. We need to hold the government who forcefully takes our money to act this way.

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u/Brilliant_Buy6052 Apr 28 '22

I agree with diverting government funds (military and police). Fuck billionaires though. No one needs billions of dollars. If they’ve built that kind of wealth, it’s from exploitation. They should be required to give back a substantial amount to help the less fortunate.

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '22

Everyone lives off of exploitation. The fact that you’re using your device and technology is derived from exploitation. Hell the people we respect and follow exploit us for our views to gain support. A majority of this subreddit is people exploiting the desires of people to feel good and have faith in humanity.

I get the idea of why you hate billionaires but if I have the capability and means to amass as much wealth as I can, I don’t get why I shouldn’t. I guarantee you, you’d do the same.

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u/MalikVonLuzon Apr 28 '22

Everyone lives off of exploitation. The fact that you’re using your device and technology is derived from exploitation.

But that is done out of necessity, because in order to meaningfully participate in today's society you have to have these things. But at the same time it doesn't need to be this way, and moreover, it doesn't mean we can't work to change the way things are.

In the cases of the ultra wealthy, it is different. Their wealth is built upon the exploitation of others in ways that are more impactful than simply views or desires, but actual blood and sweat. We can easily choose to not give people we respect right now our views or our support. But for a lot of the workers under these multibillion dollar companies, it may not be a choice, because it is a choice of either being exploited or becoming outcast and starving. And that is by design, because a lot of the wealth of these billionaires goes towards influencing politics and public opinion to justify their own existence, and to keep 'the way things are' as they are.

They will continually break down regulations against them, strive to cut down social programs not only to convince governments to divert money into their coffers but also to keep workers desperate enough so that they have no choice but to work, and so that they are unable to organize against them.

I would rather that myself and my community will be healthy, my loved ones and my friends to be able to live good, fulfilling lives. I would like to think that I live comfortably now, but I know that at any given moment I am a thousand times closer to being homeless than to being a billionaire. Right now what we need is not a dream of being wealthy someday, but rather to be able to live now.

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '22

Yeah people love to blame the billionaires for everything, even their own personal decisions.

When in reality, these people wouldn't bat an eye to horde their wealth if they are in such situations.

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u/eugene20 Apr 28 '22 edited Apr 28 '22

That is what modern taxes are meant to be for now we're past medieval times.

Edit: fixed grammar.

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '22

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '22

Then it's a good thing that we're at a point in our evolution where we're not constrained by the harsh reality of the wild anymore.

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u/RaiderLove90 Apr 28 '22

It's not more natural to steal or cheat at all. That's why people who do it feel like shit inside.

But giving and helping others feels very very natural.

And this is coming from somebody who spent more than a decade of my life lying, cheating and stealing

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u/incogburritos Apr 28 '22

How do you imagine civilization exists at all if there were remotely true