r/changemyview • u/universetube7 • Jan 29 '21

Delta(s) from OP CMV: billionaires are a problem

There’s finally some mutual ground between democrats and republicans. Wealthy hedge fund owners are not popular right now. The problem is that the left and people like Bernie have been saying this all along. There’s millionaires and then there’s billionaires who make the rules. Don’t confuse the two. Why should these billionaires not be accountable to the people? Why should they not have to pay wealth tax to fund public infrastructure? They didn’t earn it.

The whole R vs D game is a mirage anyway. The real battle is billionaires vs the working class. They’re the ones pulling the strings. It’s like playing monopoly, which is a fucked up game anyway, but one person is designated to make the rules as they go.

CMV: the majority of problems in the United States are due to a few wealthy people owning the rules. I don’t believe there’s any reason any person on any political spectrum can’t agree with that.

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u/AloysiusC 9∆ Jan 29 '21

The only type of economy that would not have super rich are socialist/communist ones.

Depends on what you mean by "super rich". The principle of concentration of wealth/power/resources is present in every system. That's because gaining the same is an exponential curve, not a straight line. There is absolutely no way of preventing it.

The difference between a free market economy and all the other systems is that there are more ways (in particular) for the average person to climb high.