That's not how it works. They use it as Capital to influence politics and things like that, which buys them more influence, which they use to reduce workers pay, rights, and benefits even further, which they absolutely use to acquire more wealth.

Every billion they gain comes at the cost to worker rights.

Past time to change the system.

Those who benefit and think they benefit from it will fight back, though.

None, that's the funny part. You could almost call it a flaw with humanity as a whole.

We can't focus on any sort of task-at-hand for any greater good. We simply are just that self centered and greedy, despite those of us that fight against that nature, it's still our nature.

Climate change? You can't make people wear masks in grocery stores or vaccinate, good luck with the climate.

Two options, if you're shilling for billionaires:

They're intrinsically 10,000x better than you and me and deserve to be 10,000x richer.

It's just theirs. It says so somewhere, no backsies.

Pure trickle-down had it's day too, but it's it's a joke again in modern times, for the most part. You may object that these are all weak arguments, but basically, you and what army?

Edit: "We need a remote chance of becoming a billionaire for anyone to go to work" is kind of a blend of trickle-down and argument number one, but I suppose I should mention it, just for the sake of completeness

Honestly, I think a lot of it is just to support the idea that those who have more, deserve more.

Useful idiots are in vogue. They live vicariously through their oppressors while working service jobs for scraps.

I'm sorry that I whine about not killing people.

As someone that has taken beating after beating I'm not down with violence except the verbal type. But worry not they take crazy-ies like me out to fields, make us dig our own graves, and then shoot us into them.

So maybe I have a different view of "violence for change" than you do.

That fantasy looks like the Western government offering tax cuts and incentives for a private company to set up shop in a rural town, hiring a bunch of employees for as little money as possible, cutting corners in safety and quality to boost their revenue from the investment, and ultimately delivering a shit product by comparison. Then, when the public finds out, the company will "downsize" by laying off most of the employees they hired, stranding those that are laid off in a rural town they can no longer afford to move away from while protecting the company's profits.

The CEO gets a bonus for record profits, a couple hundred people's lives are ruined, a small town has to deal with the fallout of high unemployment and the socioeconomic issues that come with that, and the Western government is at a loss of millions of dollars in taxpayer funds. Lawmakers get their kickbacks from the company in the form of political donations and lobbying vacation trips.

I'm sorry, my internet friend, but I have little hope for that fantasy without significant change to the system at large.

Ah ha ha ha ha ha. USA tried. It failed so hilariously bad that they're now actively protesting against new rail. There's this crazy thing, rail needs to be near places people actually want to go. But those places have NIMBY voters, so populated areas won't get rail. Instead they go to empty parking garages near malls. And then shocker, no one rides. It's so bad in Denver that they're using them as a case study to prevent expansion in Utah.

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