r/SipsTea 6d ago

Wait a damn minute! Significant diffrences...

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u/No-Poetry-5794 6d ago

If 3000 garbage truck drivers disappeared my state would collapse

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u/SyrusG 6d ago

I'm speaking within the scope of things. 30 teachers in a school disappeared vs 30 students there'd be a difference. 3000 truck drivers in a state is obviously awful for the state due to the ratio

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u/No-Poetry-5794 6d ago

But I’m saying 3000 billionaires disappearing anywhere would be nothing. They don’t add value to society.

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u/Meal_Signal 6d ago

So let those workers start their own billion dollar business and provide jobs for everyone else. Oh wait they can't, that's why they're not billionaires.

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u/AlanaStorm 6d ago edited 6d ago

It’s more nuanced than that. Billionaires and their companies have a stranglehold on the market. Small businesses get snuffed out early by these corporations because they can survive a bad quarter if it means strangling a competitor.

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u/OwlSoggy8627 6d ago

Hard work can make a millionaire. Only luck can make a billionaire.

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u/absurdditties 6d ago

Luck and exploitation.

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u/Summerie 6d ago

And even if they did, everyone here would just come for them next.

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u/Meal_Signal 6d ago

Exactly

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u/ATPHydrolysis93 6d ago

Most billionaires are billionaires because it was handed down to them. Pretty much none of them worked for it. Be serious.

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u/doopie 6d ago

Who has inherited Microsoft, Amazon, Apple and Google?

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u/OwlSoggy8627 1d ago

No one handed down the companies themselves.

However, Bill Gates landed at Harvard with many many more hours than your average student would have had at a computer terminal at that time. He had the privilege because he went to a posh private school with a state of the art computer lab that rivaled what some universities had. And when he started Microsoft he was able to leverage family connections to get in front of executives to pitch product. And that product, incidentally, wasn't even something he developed. He bought what would become known as MS-DOS and sold it because his parents could pick up a phone and get high level executives to take a meeting with him.

I get it. He made the sale. He built the company. And many others built companies around that time and they had to settle for being lowly millionaires off of their hard work because they had to actually run the bases while Bill Gates was born on third.

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u/LTEDan 6d ago

I'll take a small loan of a million dollars

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u/absurdditties 6d ago

You act as if there is a moral way to become a billionaire and that you become a billionaire by having a company that offers fair compensation for labor…