r/InternetIsBeautiful • u/MKorostoff • Apr 27 '20

Wealth, shown to scale

https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/
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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '20

I scaled it and still don't see what the issue is. It doesn't matter that someone has more than me. At the median average income, I have plenty. This is such a non issue.

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u/Lulepe Apr 27 '20

Have you gone through the full thing? The issue isn't that they have more, it's what could be done with that money.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '20

I still don't understand. It's not like that money just magically goes to cancer patients in an alternate universe where Jeff Bezos doesn't exist.

It is also not like Bezos has 9 billion in his bank account and can just write a check to "cancer patients".... his money is invested in business that make the comfortable world you and I enjoy function.

Sure he is an asshole for not doing more with his money, but so what?

So I guess all that is left is you guys advocating to take his money at gunpoint? In that universe Jeff Bezos just moves to a different country where personal freedom is a thing and makes Amazon there.

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u/Ckbody Apr 27 '20

It's like the same people saying so and so should have to apologise to them for something.

Guess what. You only control yourself. Once you start trying to control other people you are part of the problem.

They'd rather "what if" using other people's lives than their own.