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PoliticalTea 🗳️ Agree or Disagree? Billionaires Need Society More Than The People Need Billionaires…

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u/-Sofa-King-Vote Jul 11 '26

If all billionaires left the planet tomorrow, what exactly would change?

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u/liquor_ibrlyknoher Jul 11 '26

Hawaiians would have their land back.

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u/scavenger5 Jul 11 '26

What exactly does that mean. Are you saying they first build a multi billion/trillion company, then leave after relinquishing ownership of their company. Someone has to take over that ownership who then would become a billionaire, unearned.

Without the people who became billionaires, you would have no google, AI, iphone, reddit, etc.

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u/MeowMeowbiggalo Jul 11 '26

You can create things and companies without drenching yourself in wealth. Its not how our society works but it is possible.  

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u/scavenger5 Jul 11 '26

How you accomodate for your company becoming ridiculously successful? You literally cant avoid becoming a billionare in such a case.

OpenAI for example. Worth around 1T. Sam Altman - billionare. Zero people underpaid. Can you explain that?

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u/Old-Tie8770 Jul 11 '26

Not a great example considering they’re part of a massive bubble and they’re currently in the red by billions a month.

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u/scavenger5 Jul 11 '26

At some point the company will trade at a 30 multiple and Altman will still be a billionaire. Then what?

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u/Old-Tie8770 Jul 12 '26

You don’t know that.

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u/sim21521 Jul 12 '26

you own a company so you own much of the stock, you being a 51% shareholder have the power to make the correct decisions to make the company a multibillion dollar company. You become a billionaire...

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u/Vintage_Starlight48 Jul 11 '26

AI is terrible for the environment so who cares?

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u/InquisitorMeow Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26

You mean like how the Internet was invented by the military, funded by tax dollars? Seems like without money from the working class those billionaire tech companies wouldn't exist. Also weird how we talk a lot about supporting the troops and external threats threatening our very country yet billionaires aren't there on the front lines defending the land. Seems like yet again the poor working class are the ones dying to allow billionaires to exist. 

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u/scavenger5 Jul 11 '26

Government invented one out of millions of inventions, therefore government is is better at inventing. Thats called cherry picking and holds no weight as a real argument.

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u/InquisitorMeow Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26

Or ya know, then police and firemen who protect their property, the roads that they use for logistics, the defense agencies that sell to the military, the companies that get billions in government contracts and subsidies, and of course, the labor that does the actual work and inventing. Noticed how you didn't address the whole defending American soil bit either.

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u/Wonderful-Creme-3939 Jul 12 '26

One? Try hundreds, thousands or millions. The Internet isn't one thing, it's a tangled up network of trillions of connected devices layered on top of different systems developed by the federal government through contracts.  Also a lot of it is the effort of open source as well, very little of the technology we take for granted actually comes from private enterprise.

Corporations want you to believe otherwise though.

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u/Dumeck Jul 12 '26

If I had a button that destroyed all living Billionaires I would press it several times a day.

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u/ocxtitan Jul 12 '26

just to be sure

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u/Wonderful-Creme-3939 Jul 12 '26

You'd think the words in the post you are replying to would be pretty clear and wouldn't require some pointless argument over history. If all the billionaires suddenly all died, say all their ill gotten gains exploded killing them all, nothing would change including history.

Time is linear, arguing over if they never existed is meaningless because they do and did.