• DarkCloud@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    But with all that money, why would you care whose ahead and behind you… And do they care about that, or is that just a narrative we’ve bought into, something to make us feel a certain way about the wealthy being unpleasant?

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      9 days ago

      It’s not a question of who’s in front of or behind you. It’s realizing that even if you received a ludicrous amount of money, repeatedly, over a ludicrous amount of time, it still wouldn’t even scratch the utter lunacy that is the wealth of the ultra-rich. There is no way to earn that amount of wealth, in the sense of how you and I earn money. They acquired it by taking unjustly; there is no just way to become that wealthy.