10th January 2023, 6:50 AM
No one, anywhere, has ever done anything worth giving them hundreds of billions of dollars. No one anywhere could ever deserve that kind of wealth, no matter how many jobs they created. We should see this kind of wealth as an obscenity in and of itself, akin to drawings of the old oil barons or old world paintings of bloated demons stomping on hundreds of peasants or just... the tale of Midas.
This isn't a matter that can be resolved by individual billionaires having individual epiphanies and "changing their ways". The solution must be a radical shift in the system that brought about this obscenity.
This isn't a matter that can be resolved by individual billionaires having individual epiphanies and "changing their ways". The solution must be a radical shift in the system that brought about this obscenity.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)