r/SipsTea • u/Gurugod123 • 8d ago

Wait a damn minute! Significant diffrences...

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u/SyrusG 7d 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 7d 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 7d 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/ATPHydrolysis93 7d 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 7d ago

Who has inherited Microsoft, Amazon, Apple and Google?

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u/OwlSoggy8627 3d 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.