koonsolo a day ago

History is full of people with extreme wealth and power. I would say our current political structures are keeping them somewhat under control.

Edit: So in that sense, I'm also on the side that billionaires are created naturally. When you already have a lot of wealth, the odds are in your favor to create even more wealth. So if you would just keep the system running without much interference, wealth will naturally accumulate to those who already have a lot. Therefore, we need political structures to keep that under control.

ninetyninenine a day ago

Billionaires are the definition of unfairness. And therefore they are natural.

Only From the perspective of civilization, of course, which is only a small fraction of human existence.

From the perspective humanity overall, not only are billionaires unnatural, but civilization in itself is unnatural. Hence all the declining birth rates we see today.

  • oporquinho94 a day ago

    Sounds like something you just made up. Kind of moot to argue what is natural and what isn’t.

    Unfairness or billionaires might be natural or not - that doesn’t mean we have to accept their existence.

    You know what else is natural? To die at 30 from dysentery or a broken leg.

    Natural is a nonsense category

    • ninetyninenine 20 hours ago

      You’re sort of confused. The person I’m responding to claimed it wasn’t natural. He came up with the category. So take your illogical argument up with him.

  • croes a day ago

    https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/unfairness

    No mention of billionaires.

    Show me one billionaires in nature beside mankind. Billionaires now and then are artificially created by the systems mankind creates. They are an anomaly

    • ninetyninenine 20 hours ago

      This is just garbage. Not going to respond further to this.

      • croes 19 hours ago

        You could just say you have no arguments