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no one should have a billion dollars.
we can dance around the economics of the matter until the drones come home, but just no.
yeah, easy for me to say right? if I even get one comma in my bank account, it's a good day, lol @ me.
still, I mean, one billion tho. a thousand million anything.
a million seconds is less than 2 weeks. a billion seconds is damn near 32 years.
pulling in about 100 racks a year, you would have literally had to be working since the Stone Age to earn one billion dollars.
like, okay, some people are--indisputably--more valuable to humanity than others. oh, it’s true.
some are smarter, some work harder, some manage relationships better, some know how to fix ****, super important.
...but is what any one person does equivalent to the efforts of thousands of individuals with time on their hands?
I mean, some genius designed the first bulldozer, and they should have been rewarded for it.
...but enough functional human bodies built the pyramids. (luckily labor laws have mostly improved, but still.)
so, nobody got a billion dollars by playing fair...at absolute best, you’re the kid who crawls up the Skee-Ball machine and dropped the balls directly into the 100 hole.
sure, it’s savvy...but is it the root of a sustainable society?
if money is the power to make decisions, at that scale you can make decisions for an entire population.
do we want that kid running our world?
lookit, let’s run a thought experiment.
The Planet has a human population of 8 bil, give or take, right?
so if one person can be as valuable as a billion, then 8 should be able to keep things running, yeah?
like, go ahead, pick an All-Sapes team....the best there is, the best there was, all that.
Aristotle, Einstein, Banneker, Salk, DaVinci, Tesla, Pythagoras...pick your favorites.
even throw Historical Jesus--the man whose good ideas endured so long that we know exactly how many years it has been since he died--in the 8th slot.
**** it, I’ll give you Kissinger or somebody as a coach/GM.
all dudes with more vision, breadth of knowledge, and raw mental horsepower than almost anyone living or dead.
put these 9 people on Earth right now with our current tools, take the rest of us off, and I bet both my typing fingers that they couldn’t even keep the lights on.
they just might never see 2020.
no one, not one single soul to ever draw breath, is even one billion times as valuable as the next man.
no one should have a billion dollars.
we can dance around the economics of the matter until the drones come home, but just no.
yeah, easy for me to say right? if I even get one comma in my bank account, it's a good day, lol @ me.
still, I mean, one billion tho. a thousand million anything.
a million seconds is less than 2 weeks. a billion seconds is damn near 32 years.
pulling in about 100 racks a year, you would have literally had to be working since the Stone Age to earn one billion dollars.
like, okay, some people are--indisputably--more valuable to humanity than others. oh, it’s true.
some are smarter, some work harder, some manage relationships better, some know how to fix ****, super important.
...but is what any one person does equivalent to the efforts of thousands of individuals with time on their hands?
I mean, some genius designed the first bulldozer, and they should have been rewarded for it.
...but enough functional human bodies built the pyramids. (luckily labor laws have mostly improved, but still.)
so, nobody got a billion dollars by playing fair...at absolute best, you’re the kid who crawls up the Skee-Ball machine and dropped the balls directly into the 100 hole.
sure, it’s savvy...but is it the root of a sustainable society?
if money is the power to make decisions, at that scale you can make decisions for an entire population.
do we want that kid running our world?
lookit, let’s run a thought experiment.
The Planet has a human population of 8 bil, give or take, right?
so if one person can be as valuable as a billion, then 8 should be able to keep things running, yeah?
like, go ahead, pick an All-Sapes team....the best there is, the best there was, all that.
Aristotle, Einstein, Banneker, Salk, DaVinci, Tesla, Pythagoras...pick your favorites.
even throw Historical Jesus--the man whose good ideas endured so long that we know exactly how many years it has been since he died--in the 8th slot.
**** it, I’ll give you Kissinger or somebody as a coach/GM.
all dudes with more vision, breadth of knowledge, and raw mental horsepower than almost anyone living or dead.
put these 9 people on Earth right now with our current tools, take the rest of us off, and I bet both my typing fingers that they couldn’t even keep the lights on.
they just might never see 2020.
no one, not one single soul to ever draw breath, is even one billion times as valuable as the next man.
no one should have a billion dollars.
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