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

  • Schwim Dandy@piefed.zip
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    18 hours ago

    I don’t know where you’re located but if you paid any attention to the current US political system, neither of those questions would need to be asked.

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      17 hours ago

      In and of itself, it doesn’t matter at all which country someone lives in, as long as you’re aware of the answer to the question I asked.

      The answer is simply: the billionaires—even if you think you can undermine that reality with a counter-question (in Europe, where I live, there are certainly billionaires as well).

      However, if—knowing all this—you don’t come to the same conclusion, I can’t understand why not.

      That’s what my original question was about, and so far no one in this thread has answered it: How does society as a whole benefit from the existence of billionaires?

      I know my answer to that.

      Do you know yours, since you say it wouldn’t make any difference whether they exist or not…