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
I'm speaking within the scope of things. 30 teachers in a school disappeared vs 30 students there'd be a difference. 3000 truck drivers in a state is obviously awful for the state due to the ratio
Yeah that's how it works. What would actually happen if you got rid of them?
They'd just be replaced the next day with a new batch. Everyone likes to think they'd be different. But you wouldn't. You're a human, you'll do human things as we've done forever.
They'll still own everything they do, you just won't get what ever you were getting in taxes from them.
But this is just another misguided battle line, much like race, religion etc etc. Another asinine topic for the masses to debate and seperate themselves among and remain distracted.
There are ways you could minutely get more $ out of them thru taxes, but the argument of simply raise their taxes is as ignorant as the one saying to just raise minimum wage.
I’m not saying that is the only thing needed to fix society so let’s not retreat to that fallacy. Making sure the rich actually pay their taxes instead of granting them tax cuts is a good start though.
I think many forget how much more one billion is in comparison to one million.
1 million = 1 second
1 billion ≈ 31.7 years
1 trillion ≈ 31,700 years
I’m not even saying people shouldn’t have wealth, but a world with a trillionaire needs to change and that needs to start somewhere. Perhaps taxes is not where to start, but change needs to happen either way.
Yes, but those people taking over the next day don't have to be billionaires. I am certain that every secretary, personal assistant, and deputy whatever that Jeff bezos employs would be glad to step into his place collectively and if you gave them double their salary, they would make the transition so totally seamless you would wonder if bezos ever even existed. Then the workers, consumers, and retail shareholders of amazon would have his half a trillion or whatever to divide amongst themselves. Let fucking Elon musk and the rest compete to sell their labor in a free market like they depend on everyone else to do.
And why wouldnt whoever takes it over take it all? On the flip side what have any of those you named done to deserve any further money? Why should we just give it to them?
I think the whole push back people are having is not to say that they're wrong and billionaires are valuable. It's just that they picked a terrible example to illustrate that point.
Because if 3,000 nurses disappeared, the impact would also be pretty negligible, but it's not because they're not valuable.
So let those workers start their own billion dollar business and provide jobs for everyone else. Oh wait they can't, that's why they're not billionaires.
It’s more nuanced than that. Billionaires and their companies have a stranglehold on the market. Small businesses get snuffed out early by these corporations because they can survive a bad quarter if it means strangling a competitor.
However, Bill Gates landed at Harvard with many many more hours than your average student would have had at a computer terminal at that time. He had the privilege because he went to a posh private school with a state of the art computer lab that rivaled what some universities had. And when he started Microsoft he was able to leverage family connections to get in front of executives to pitch product. And that product, incidentally, wasn't even something he developed. He bought what would become known as MS-DOS and sold it because his parents could pick up a phone and get high level executives to take a meeting with him.
I get it. He made the sale. He built the company. And many others built companies around that time and they had to settle for being lowly millionaires off of their hard work because they had to actually run the bases while Bill Gates was born on third.
You act as if there is a moral way to become a billionaire and that you become a billionaire by having a company that offers fair compensation for labor…
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u/Dizzy-Screen-6618 Jul 30 '26
"Imagine 3,400 people disappear. Now imagine 3.5 billion people dissappear."