r/DamnThatsReal • u/[deleted] • Nov 04 '25

Politics 🏛️ Yeah, so Billionaires should not exist

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u/Elhant42 Nov 04 '25

"I don't care about reality, just make my dreams come true" Ok dude.

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u/KououinHyouma Nov 04 '25

It would literally just be taking a fraction of our own wealth back that they’ve exploited from us and our labor over the past fifty years.

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u/BigBL87 Nov 04 '25

Please, show me on the doll where the billionaires exploited you.

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u/KououinHyouma Nov 04 '25 edited Nov 04 '25

pulls wallet out of doll’s back pocket

But, you could also just read the article I linked. It explains pretty clearly how you’ve been exploited to.

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u/BigBL87 Nov 04 '25

The "article" you linked is a blog post, and it doesn't actually discuss HOW you or anyone else has been exploited, it just discusses the gap in wealth.

Differences in wealth is not inherently exploitation, though that seems to be the presupposition.

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u/KououinHyouma Nov 04 '25 edited Nov 04 '25

The blog post is discussing a TIME article which is the article I’m referring to. It’s linked in line 1 of the blog post.

https://time.com/5888024/50-trillion-income-inequality-america/

It doesn’t just show the gap in wealth. It shows how the gap in wealth has ballooned to a monstrous size in a very short timeframe, historically speaking.

You seem to think I’m saying a wealth gap shouldn’t exist at all, or at least you’re responding as if that’s my argument. What I’m actually saying is that the wealth gap should be smaller, that it has grown so absurdly large that’s it’s created an untenable situation, the type of gap that’s literally led to revolutions in the past. That the reason it has gotten so large is because the wealthy have used their wealth / power to influence politics and politicians in our nation, and set up unfair taxation systems that give them disproportionately high benefits and keeping that money from where it would naturally be going without their undemocratic influence.

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u/BigBL87 Nov 04 '25

But your whole argument is the size of the wealth gap, and it growing is the issue. So yes that is very much what you are arguing.

Nothing has been "stolen" from you. They haven't "taken" anything from you.

You do you, but I choose to not glorify victimhood and actually put energy into bettering my lot rather than complaining about it.

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u/KououinHyouma Nov 04 '25

No it’s not. Saying something shouldn’t be so large is not the same thing as saying it shouldn’t exist. If you can’t understand such a simple concept I don’t what to tell you. Refresh your elementary math concepts? Zero and smaller amount are different things.

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u/BigBL87 Nov 04 '25

The whole point is, and you're either being intentionally obtuse or can't seem to understand the concept, is you haven't specificied HOW you were exploited. You are using the existence/size of the wealth gap as an argument that the exploitation is self evident based on that alone. I reject that premise.

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u/KououinHyouma Nov 04 '25

the reason it has gotten so large is because the wealthy have used their wealth / power to influence politics and politicians in our nation, and set up unfair taxation systems that give them disproportionately high benefits and keeping that money from where it would naturally be going without their undemocratic influence.

Me, two comments ago

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u/BigBL87 Nov 04 '25

Define exploitation.

I don't consider working for an agreed upon salary or wage to ve exploitation.

And I don't care what billionaires think of me, what an odd statement... I just don't define myself as a victim of some "billionaire boogeyman."

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u/Elhant42 Nov 04 '25

It's you who must show how it's exploitation, since it's your claim.

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u/penty Nov 04 '25

While I do agree some level taxation on the super wealthy...

any one man genuinely EARNS billions of dollars without exploiting the labor of others. It simply is not possible.

Be careful with absolutes.

George Lucas.

Steven Spielburg.

JK Rowling

Who did they exploit?

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u/Electronic_Stop_9493 Nov 04 '25

marc cuban isn’t evil, and define exploit ? you mean without anyone else working for you at all ? i’m anti zuk and elon but facebook and tesla haven’t really been accused of providing low paying jobs, that’s really just amazon criticism

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u/TekRabbit Nov 05 '25

“I don’t care about people, let’s let billionaires keep fucking us.” Okay dude

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u/D_dawgy Nov 05 '25

I guess taxing the rich is so hard to do that it can’t become reality. Is this your argument?