A billionaire friend once said to me, “My taxes are so low it’s obscene.” And he was right. google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.co…
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Stop being friends with billionaires girl
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Not every rich person is a greedy bastard anymore than every poor person is noble and pure. No socioeconomic group has a monopoly on values.

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All billionaires are, by definition, greedy bastards. No one in the world needs a billion dollars to live, and choosing to have those amounts of money while people die of hunger or for lack of access to healthcare, housing or education is something greedy bastards do.
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There is such a thing as righteous profit & some people have made huge amounts of money righteously. The enemy isn’t those people; the enemy is the injustice of an economic & political system that in so many ways rewards them at the expense of many & fails to adequately tax them.
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Based.
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Exactly. 💯👍🙏
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Truth is many very wealthy people do good things but we don't see the resources go directly into our hands so it feels like they don't do shit but they do.
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People who get rich by exploiting the poor are definitely morally inferior.
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You bring up great conversation into the public sometimes, but you're wrong here. Keeping a billion dollars of assets instead of using them immediately to help the millions of people suffering from poverty makes a person a "greedy bastard".
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People who amass and maintain wealth above a billion dollars, when there is no need to be so exceedingly selfish while so many suffer, are all bad people, Marianne. Thank you for coming to my ted talk. Also, you’ve had lots of terrible takes recently.
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It's impossible to have a billion dollars without first sacrificing your humanity and any sense of social or moral responsibility towards your fellow man. These are people who are willing to do whatever it takes for the insane and obscene accumulation of wealth.
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you can't systematically destroy the Earth's economic functionality and still be judged by normal standards of morality
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