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0 pointsqsera8d ago0 comments

Isn't that the ultimate reason to be rich? Isn't the ultimate incentive? The rich have built roads, infrastructure, done research and improve QoL for everyone. We payed them and they grew even more rich.

And when the judgement day come, you are going to deny everything you have paid them? That was the whole contract!

I get that we can't help but be dumb and consume and enable some entities to be so rich. But then we should not blame the rich!

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Y-bar8d ago· 3 in thread

> The rich have built roads

No, the working class built the roads.

> infrastructure

No, the workers built the infrastructure.

> done research

No, the academics and researchers did that.

> improve QoL for everyone

Explain how Putin (Russia's riches man) improves the QoL of everyone. Explain how rich people like Epstein improves the QoL of everyone. Explain how Trump and Jared Kushner improves the QoL of everyone. Explain how the Koch family improves the QoL of everyone. Explain how Imelda Marcos, Pablo Escobar, Rupert Murdoch, Kim Jon Un, Bernie Madoff, Al Capone, Robert Mugabe, Silvio Berlusconi, Rodrigo Duerte, Peul Manafort, Viktor Bout, Hosni Mubarak, Mohammed bin Salman, Prince Andrew, Albert Thys ... Are these rich people improving the quality of life of everyone?

qseraOP8d ago

> No, the working class built the roads.

Are you serious? That is pretty naive!

>Explain how Putin (Russia's riches man)..

Look at the money in your pocket. Do you know how it got there? There is one and only one way to get it. Do some service for the society. Either you did it, or someone else who did gave it to you. Either way society owes you.

Same goes for the rich.

Y-bar8d ago

> Are you serious? That is pretty naive!

Strange. I only see working class people building roads here. Show me a picture of a billionaire building a road.

qseraOP8d ago

Show me a picture of working class people building roads on their own initiative without a billionaire paying them.

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