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Originally Posted by shovelquest
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well there are good billionaires and bad ones and those are the bad ones and they basically just got their political donations returned to them with interest care of USGOV.
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The mere status of being a billionaire is unethical. Such a concentration of wealth only occurs through the aggregate suffering and exploitation of masses of people who sell their labor to survive. Additionally, such wealth affords far too much concentration of power in one actor. There isn't a fortune in Earth's history that wasn't accumulated through anticompetitive practices or skullduggery of some kind, dating back to the first douchebag who bribed the island king for exclusive rights to all the coconut trees.
Even with billionaires who are dedicated to giving away all their wealth-- fortunes made on the backs of labor is directed at the pet interests and whimsy of one person, rather than the wants and needs of the body politic.
Every miserable maggoty ducat in excess of $1billion in realized or unrealized wealth and income should be taxed at 100% and used to pay union dues. Maybe give them a big marble neon scoreboard in Washington DC where they get their name etched among the Winners of Capitalism with a fountain people can throw coins in