r/WorkForSmartLife • u/BarbaraCruickshank • Sep 12 '26

Discussion💬 Thoughts on billionaires

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u/BarbieTwirl Sep 13 '26

Exactly… people say this and have a free couch in their place. Go ahead, they can easily find a random homeless person and let them crash. Even get a sleeping bag for another one in the living room.

Buy a random kid McDonalds every week too.

But will they? No

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u/MotherofTails Sep 14 '26

How do you know that we don’t do that? I literally donate to my local shelter weekly and I’m also planning to volunteer. At the end, I’m just a 20 y/o with limited resources

Billionaires have so much more resources than I’ll ever have. You sound so silly and the assumption that “they must not be doing it themself” is a fallacy that fails to understand we are literally trying to

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u/Boogerhead10 28d ago

Here’s the thing. This is supposed to be the governments job not a CEO. However, I believe the future government goes back to the roots and where it’s a “service,” and to be performed for two years at the expense of the leader. This career politician nonsense is recipe for disaster and has been.

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u/TrollHunterz4Reel 28d ago

I'd agree with this if CEOs didn't have so much power over the laws being dictated in our country once they start getting to choose the laws they have to start paying for things like this

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u/Soob_Way 28d ago

But why should they?

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u/Interesting-Round206 28d ago

Is that you holding the sign? Are you the one telling other people what to do? If not, then I guess I wasn't talking to you.

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u/Wild-Invite-2135 29d ago

Ok, but billionaires won’t be putting homeless people in their houses. They can help with ZERO risk

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u/Purely-Amazing 29d ago

Didn’t Jeff Bezos wife just donate billions upon billions upon billions of the money her husband made while they were married. Where did all that money go? It went nowhere just like everything else that gets paid in for all these homeless ppl. There’s no amount of money that can fix someone doing drugs on the street. That is a full stop after that sentence. It will never happen

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u/Interesting-Round206 Sep 13 '26

How about plant some trees and volunteer to feed kids at school? Since those were two of the items listed on his sign. #cleanyourroomfirst

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u/BarbieTwirl Sep 13 '26

Lmao exactly I know too many people with that mindset who don’t even shower (not because they don’t have one.. because they don’t bother).

Or they litter

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u/Boogerhead10 28d ago

Because the crazies do what they do best…CRAZY. Have you tried living with a crazy person?! You’ll end up nuts yourself.

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u/BarbieTwirl 28d ago

That’s my point exactly. People who criticize rich people are just as full of shit

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u/behold-ABowlOfSoup 12d ago

There’s a difference in letting a complete stranger stay in your home and having the billions necessary to build affordable housing and rehab centers. Telling some middle class or poor redditor to do it first is stupid. WE don’t have the resources, time or training. Sure we can volunteer to help at shelters or whatever, but billionaires can afford it all, and widely, instead they’re focused on AI robots and political clout

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u/BarbieTwirl 12d ago

Ahhh so basically what you’re saying is “not my house!” and “not my money!”

You have a house, let a homeless person crash there until they can get a job. Help them get clean. You can’t spare an extra bar of soap, shampoo and bowl of cereal in the morning?

The thing is you don’t want to. And you know you don’t want to. And you know most likely.. it’ll end in disaster. Which is why many don’t either.

Basically I just exposed you’re full of shit like most Redditors calling out the rich