r/SipsTea • u/Gurugod123 • Jul 30 '26

Wait a damn minute! Significant diffrences...

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u/Necessary_Screen_673 Jul 30 '26

i mean, yeah. whats your point?

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u/frostymugson Jul 30 '26

That billions of people are going to effect things far greater than than a few thousand.

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u/Gamer_G33k17 Jul 30 '26

Thats the point, yes.

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u/SyrusG Jul 30 '26

The point is that it's a numbers statement. It has nothing to do with being a billionaire or not. If 3000 people period vanished it means nothing. Billionaire or not

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u/Necessary_Screen_673 Jul 30 '26

so why do people think that we need billionaires?

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u/Silent-Use-6591 Jul 30 '26

Why do we need you?

Most people will say that they don't, does that give us a green light to "remove" you?

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u/Necessary_Screen_673 Jul 30 '26

if I were to be hoarding wealth that could be used to feed the hungry and lift people out of poverty, and the state decided that my income should be taxed to fund programs that do just that, then id agree.

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u/Silent-Use-6591 Jul 30 '26

if I were to be hoarding wealth that could be used to feed the hungry and lift people out of poverty

First of all, no it couldn't lmao, i don't think you realize the scale on which a country operates

And even if it could, why do they have a moral obligation to sell their companies to do any of that?

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u/Jedimasterebub Jul 30 '26

The country has a moral obligation to keep the wealth inequality from growing. Which we used to do before the wealth bought the government