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[-] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 59 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

And they can provide for them on much, much, much smaller wealths. The non ultra rich are doing it.

[-] kittehx 54 points 2 years ago

yeah how could anyone be expected to provide for their families with less than a billion dollars

[-] ReCursing@lemmings.world 46 points 2 years ago

Their families are already provided for for the next five generations, at least, assuming they're all shite with money!

[-] bountygiver@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago

and each of them buying their own house

[-] brown567@sh.itjust.works 33 points 2 years ago

With one billion dollars, I could comfortably provide for my family for ten thousand years. They'll be fine without them

[-] ef9357@lemmy.sdf.org 30 points 2 years ago

They’ve made billions not caring for anyone else’s family. Why should anyone care about theirs?

[-] prole 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

They could provide for hundreds of millions of families.

[-] krakenfury@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 years ago

Yo, I'm damn sure an anticapitalist, but the numbers are way off here. $1B split by 100M works out to $10 per family.

[-] nieminen@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

You forget they're usually multi-billionaires at this point. So could be anywhere from $10-30 per person.

[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Is there a specifically anti-billionaire Lemmy community one could join?

[-] MrRazamataz@lemmy.razbot.xyz 24 points 2 years ago

That is Lemmy!

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago

Hexbear.net and Lemmygrad.ml are the largest explicitly Leftist instances on Lemmy.

[-] OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago
[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

What Leftist instance is larger?

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago
[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago
[-] jsomae@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

I feel like this is most lemmy communities? What pro-billionaire lemmy communities are there?

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Actually a more interesting question than you think. When asked "should billionaires exist?" Almost everyone on Lemmy would respond "no," I suspect, but when asked "should we be working towards Communism?" I suspect the answer is far more mixed. Depending on your personal views, someone can say they oppose billionaires but not support actual practical methods of reducing them, just saying "increase taxes" as though they would ever let that happen.

[-] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Antiwork and Workreform are good

[-] Visstix@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

They can provide for multiple generations when they die.

[-] onlooker@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 years ago

Nobody thinks of the billionaires, it's so unfair.

[-] Zink@programming.dev 7 points 2 years ago

This makes a nice companion to the meme that ends with the rich guy saying “fuck off” to something reasonable that involves helping other humans.

[-] Murple_27@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Piccolo would not be making this argument. If anybody would it would be Turles there.

[-] LavaPlanet@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Meh, they've got enough money for therapy.

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