• chiliedogg@lemmy.world
      51·
      6 days ago

      Eliminating extreme wealth helps everyone.

      Capping wealth at a billion dollars wouldn’t hurt anyone, including the billionaires. 999 million is plenty to get by.

      • psycholocomotor_no2@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        3·
        6 days ago

        We should eliminate the private property owning class entirely instead of stopping individuals from having more than one billion dollars.

        The problem is with the infinite accumulation of capital, not individuals with obscene wealth. In reality billionaires have actually very little control over their capital, they basically must re-invest the vast majority of it into accumulating more capital, the private jets are just what they skim off the top.

        Billion dollar companies aren’t own by single people anymore and never were. The CEO is beholden to their board of directors and, even more so, the investors, if they stop making more and more money then the investments go elsewhere.

    • Cherry@piefed.socialEnglish
      11·
      6 days ago

      There must be a least a few if the irritating smarmy ones you wish this upon. It’s one thing being a billionaire from wealth accumulation or inheritance. It’s another to be an insufferable monster to humanity.

      I agree we need to dismantle the system. However I do wish it upon many of the greedy stains that call themselves a person, they had every chance to do the right thing.