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Why I’m not mad at billionaires
Every time that you hear a story about a Billionaire doing anything naturally it gets a lot of attention, and most of that attention is negative as you’d expect. This is the case no matter who the billionaire is and no matter what they’re doing bar giving large sums to charities. Even then you still get people giving them shit although they’re doing what they want them to do.
But why do we expect to see negative comments whenever billionaires do anything? Is it the case that most of the things they do are evil? I don’t think so, no more evil than the average person.
I think it’s for the same reason people are happy when they hear about charitable donations even if they don’t know anything about the charity.
They want the money for themselves.
People think money solves all problems
Some people think that there are humans on Earth that have enough money to end things like world hunger. I bet if you asked those people how many people are hungry in the world and how much it would take to feed them they wouldn’t know, and it’s impossible for them to know.
That’s because there is no amount of money that can solve world hunger, it’s not a money problem, it’s a deep problem that is caused by many things. In some cases, money might add fuel to the…