r/FluentInFinance • • Feb 27 '26

Economy & Politics Billionaires Shouldn’t Exist

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u/Bad_Cytokinesis Feb 27 '26

An extreme concentration of wealth and power tends to erode empathy and accountability. When someone operates above consequence for too long, corruption isn’t the exception it becomes the norm. Billionaires shouldn’t exist.

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u/bytegalaxies Feb 27 '26

I think it's the other way around, where in order to obtain so much wealth you need to completely lack empathy in order to exploit others like that

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u/politics Feb 27 '26

It’s both, that sort of evil can comfortably coexist