Please go easy on the downvotes—the point here is to try to understand a perspective that many of you probably won’t share.

  • theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    People who think billionaires should exist generally don’t believe in the common good as much as they believe in Big Strong Man IS Cool and Sexy. Or they don’t know how labor works

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      There’s absolutely something to this, in that religions that enforce hierarchies are going to be more attractive to people who desire hierarchies (befitting from them or not). There’s no form in which you can be a billionaire without believing in hierarchy because it’s about as peak of human power as you can get