• ManWithThe105IQ@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Billionaire hate is low IQ. I get hating specific people that happen to be billionaires (sam altman etc) that are objectively harming you, but a billionaire isnt harming you by mere virtue of being a billionaire, nor do you deserve their earnings by mere virtue that you have less money. People are actually angry at things like inflation and being unable to buy a home, but these things are caused by things like eternal desert wars, government spending and printing money, infinity H1B Indians in white collar industries etc, not by a guy making a toy that a billion people buy for $1.

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      55 minutes ago

      being a billionaire means being a thief as one has to exploit the surplus labor value of his employees to earn that much

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        The reason you are poor is not because a lot of people bought an XBox from Bill Gates. There is no rational system in which you and someone like Bill Gates arrive at the same income, or deserve the same income. Inequality is good as ling as you dont suck. If you do, must suck to suck. Now, are there actual issues that exist? Yes, things like inflation exist. Yes, the new eternal desert war is an economic problem. Not all economic hardshipnis caused by merit, bit the part that is, is good. Its good that in a perfect world, someone tha is lazy and 80 IQ has less purchasing power than someone that creates and runs a large company that employs thousands of people.

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          5 hours ago

          I can only assume the 105 IQ reference in your username is accurate. Just barely above average, but apparently enough to give you an inflated and misplaced sense of intellectual superiority. It would certainly explain the confidence with which you mistake your own ideological assumptions for economic analysis.

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      but these things are caused by things like eternal desert wars, government spending and printing money, infinity H1B Indians in white collar industries etc

      There’s no way you can look at any country in the developed world not called America and thing the thing holding America back is government spending. This is simply not a position that can survive contact with reality and if you disagree you’re going to have to provide evidence (my evidence is the Nordics). Also in response to your other comment: That’s also not how that works. Money given to poor people has been thoroughly proven to mobilize the economy more than that given to rich people. Which makes sense when you actually think about it: Rich people just throw money back and forth at each other through the stock market, while poor people actually spend it on goods and services. A tremendous amount of labor (and therefore jobs) would be necessary to give 400 million people a big mac each.