there is not one good billionaire.

[blogdiva@mastodon.social]

a billion dollars is one thousand millions. all the billionaires in the world combined are worth over a trillion dollars.

the Earth nor Humanity can afford those fuckers. they are committing ecocide and genocide to stay billionaires.

neither Gates nor Buffet nor any billionaire have a right to exist as long as poverty exists.

your poverty is their wealth.

so start treating all billionaires as the enemy that wants YOU dead.

because they do.

@daniellatz

[daniellatz@mastodon.social]

@blogdiva My issue was with you, because you said there was not one who could be excused. I was anticipating an explanation of why I was wrong but you got around that

[blogdiva@mastodon.social]

when i say not one,

not.

one.

if they really wanted to end poverty, they would.

they won't.

@daniellatz

[flylogan@c.im]

@aud @blogdiva that’s how capitalism works cry harder

[aud@fire.asta.lgbt]

@[email protected] @[email protected] lmao do they pay you or do you just love licking boots that much

[chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

@blogdiva money corrupts minds. It’s that simple.

[crispius@mastodon.social]

@chris
It really is. 🫤

@blogdiva

[natanox@chaos.social]

@blogdiva @daniellatz While I can understand and *mostly* support the sentiment you're talking as if billionaires are one homogenous block of people who (can) have one unified goal. That's dogmatic and a slippery slope towards authoritarianism.
Hate won't get you anywhere, no matter how justified.

[marymaraskittenbakery@troet.cafe]

@Natanox @blogdiva @daniellatz

Because all the patience and good will have gotten us... yes, where, exactly?
Right!! To the point, where it's getting harder and harder for people to just survive, we are killing our life support system, we are killing all other species, just so those great billionairs can get a tad richer.
As OP said: they "could" end hunger, poverty, homelessness anytime - but they won't.
Imagine them hording food or water, not money, and tell me how this is sane behaviour

[natanox@chaos.social]

@MaryMarasKittenBakery @blogdiva @daniellatz I did not say we should show good will. I even said I mostly share the sentiment.
The only thing I said is that hatred will get us into the next awful situation, i.e. authoritarianism.

Take a deep breath and realize that not everyone who doesn't immediately calls for the guillotine is your enemy.

[marymaraskittenbakery@troet.cafe]

@Natanox @blogdiva @daniellatz

And where exactly is the "hatred"? The statement "not one good billionaire" is hardly "hatred" is it now?
Sorry, by now I would even go so far as to say they are our enemies. Because.. well yes, they are.
Saying things as they are is not hatred. It's something we need much more of.

[bitbear@icosahedron.website]

@MaryMarasKittenBakery @Natanox @blogdiva @daniellatz I completely agree.

“Enemy” is a strong word, though. The usual fate wished upon enemies is horrible death.

While I would thoroughly enjoy seeing the end of Thiel, Musk, the Mercer family, the Koch brothers, and many more billionaires, that wouldn’t actually rid the world of billionaires.

What needs to happen is for the economic system to change so it becomes impossible for anyone to ever become a billionaire.

[sallystrange@eldritch.cafe]

@Natanox
Billionaire have the unified goal of remaining billionaires. Please be genuine in your responses, I can't tell if this is merely concern trolling.
@blogdiva @daniellatz

[sidereal@kolektiva.social]

@Natanox @blogdiva @daniellatz “Won’t someone think of the poor billionaires? The people who want to limit their power are dangerous authoritarians!”

In reality, the people who want to live in a world with billionaires are the dangerous authoritarians. I invite you to get your shit together.

[sallystrange@eldritch.cafe]

@bitbear

Billionaires are, by remaining billionaires, actively working towards the painful deaths of billions of humans as well as mass extinction of other species.

Please stop fretting at the possibility that people are going overboard in their hate for them.
@MaryMarasKittenBakery @Natanox @blogdiva @daniellatz

[chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

@crispius @blogdiva I have met a limited number of people who could be considered "very rich".

Douchebags. All. lol

[rvlara23@mastodon.social]

@blogdiva

That includes Taylor Swift I might add. No matter what people think....she does not care about you in the way her fans think she does.

[stephanie@ottawa.place]

@chris @crispius @blogdiva to me, anyone who's willing to hoard even over 10 millions can't be thinking much about society.

(With the price of houses nowadays, can't even talk about over a million anymore, sigh)

[chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

@stephanie @crispius @blogdiva yup

[natanox@chaos.social]

@SallyStrange @blogdiva @daniellatz Obviously you can't since my reply was genuine. I simply believe it's a systemic issue over one that can be attributed to a group of people within the system, even if that group of people will try to keep the system afloat that made them powerful.
Every human can do bad, they merely have to believe they're the good ones.

If this already gets personal I've no interest in entertaining you.