Unpopular Opinion

That’s truly unpopular: so upvote. I do disagree.

The fallacy that people "make work" is so ingrained in our societies. Yep, i get up in the morning and "build" a "work" for someone to work in. Sure buddy.

What happens is that a) in a specific place, there is a demand, say for example for shoes, and someone with the money and education starts a shoe shop there. Now he can hire someone doing the grunt work.

The smart business guy can try to open 1.000 shoe shops in spaces where there are no demand and despite how early ge gets up in the morning and how hard he works they will all fail (and hire no one in the end).

They're investors, they open that shoe shop, knowing the risk (because they learned how to assess a businessplan in business school), and because they open several, the risk is mitigated (if one shop doesn't "work out" just fire the workers and close it, putting the cost on the other shops).

This is classic business, and you can even have a go at it yourself (at big risks as you can probably only open one shop yourself, but you can, maybe).

A sidenote about Eat the rich, they are not business investors, they bought up the country, the government, law and order, they are breaking the social contract and even the contract of how money works, that's why it's not just important but for our own survival that we must "eat the rich".

Upvoted for being very unpopular (and wrong but that's not the point of this place).

Goddamn, a take so stupid and money fellating it could even get a Hapsburg cock hard.

Why do you all let these 1 day old accounts troll you? lol

Why the downvotes? This is an unpopular opinion if ever I have seen one 😁!

I was going to answer but, in accordance to rule 1 of this particular community, I guess I'm not allowed to reply in any meaningful way.

So, Elon Musk made in just this year more money than you, and your father, and his father and his father, on and on back to the invention of currency have made in their entire lives combined.

So please do tell me, is Elon Musk more valuable than you and all your ancestors combined?

Has he worked harder than all your grandfathers combined?

Me, personally, I would be unbelievably embarrassed to admit that I think a junkie South African nepo baby is 100,000 times the man my granddad was.

Thats definitely going to be an unpopular opinion here lol

I love how your one example for an evil billionaire is bill gates, who as far as billionaires go, is honestly pretty middle of the road.

What exactly has bill done that marks him as the clearly evil one among the ~2000 billionaires?

I think what people generally mean, atleast here, are the billionaires.

Unfortunately you and your family can not live securely or comfortably on this forsaken earth without having substantial amount of saved money, which already makes you richer than quite a large chunk of people. For instance most middle income level savings can be completely wiped off by a single serious illness. So it is more understandable for people wanting to be somewhat rich so that they can live carefree their only one life. I have to note though, it is still a short coming of the society that you need to be rich to be comfortable, but anyways.

Wanting to be a billionaire? That is probably a symptom of some sort of mental illness (not an expert, personal opinion). Call it addiction to success (like addiction to gambling), sociopathic levels of lack of empathy or narcissism but they just can't stop trying to get more. I know a bunch of people who own their companies with ~hundred people working in it, producing useful stuff and what not and they are not even upwards of a millionaire. You don't go up in the billionaire game without finding shady ways of hoarding power and influence. At the least you have to kill competition and create monopoly. And in worst cases we have people like Elon Musk who meddle in the political affairs of other countries and support right wing extremism so that he gains a bit more influence. Or we have people like Ellison who would rather have the whole world turn into obedient money milking cows so that what, a hundred people in the billionaire narcissists club can live like emperors?

So eat the billionaires? Don't mind if we do.

I think "eat the rich" is also being used as a slogan by people who want to cut down neoliberalism, and for those it doesn't necessarily mean they want to do literally that to the specific people who happen to be rich... The milder version is to leave the people as is, just redistribute some of their money and turn them from billionaires into millionaires, everyone would be alright and no beheadings needed. (And strictly speaking, the word "people" isn't even in the sentence.) But it carries both meanings. And the more violent one is what people usually use it for.

But yes, fighting neoliberalism and having a smaller gap with how wealth is distributed, would solve a lot of issues. I think it'd be very nice if we (the people) had money and assets to build businesses, buy houses etc. Instead of most money being in control of a few select (tax-avoiding) mega-corporations (plus individuals), who use it to rip off people. And who also use it to influence politics and make society worse in the process. Won't happen, though, if you ask me...

I agree. People generally don’t want to take responsibility for their situation, so they look for someone to blame. That’s not to say there aren’t wealthy people who could make the world better by making better choices - but writing someone off just because they’re rich is as flawed as assuming someone is a criminal because they’re black.

Slogans like “eat the rich” are what you’d call thought-terminating clichés - a form of loaded language that often passes as folk wisdom but really just shuts down discussion. It’s a way to resolve cognitive dissonance with a slogan instead of an argument.

If I wanted to be charitable, I’d note that by “rich” they often mean billionaires, in which case there’s at least a case to be made. But I’ve seen too many people lump millionaires into that same category, so I no longer extend that charity.

That's definitely unpopular. I agree that people work money are not necessarily the problem, but did it you see those animations connotation thousand work hundred thousand, with a million, with a billion? There's a good percentage where the accumulation of wealth is reaching such absurd levels that's it's unfathomable for humans.