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People of Lemmy, I dare you to name ONE billionaire that's done anything good. (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by Eventlesstew@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The amount of exploitation and destruction of the environment that it takes to accumulate 1 billion dollars can never be offset by any amount of “good” that is done by money. If I extract resources and a exploit a community and get a billion dollars, then turn around and give every cent back to that community, surplus value will still be lost.

[–] Boggy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Came to say essentially this but looking at the fact that one person having that much money with all the shit going on is absurd.