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You're arguing against the notion that the billionaire, the person, is the evil.
It's odd that you say, rather condescendingly, that life is not black and white, while you make a black and white defense of billionaires (the people themselves) not being evil.
A given billionaire may or may not be necessarily "evil", depending on definitions. Key word: Necessarily.
And I'm sure you'll out some article somewhere where people are railing against the billionaires specifically being the scum of the earth. but that's not what's happening here, in this thread, and that makes your entire argument here a straw man.
The evil of billionaires-the concept, not necessarily the specific person- lies in the fact that nobody earns a billion dollars. There's an argument for, say, someone who got in on bitcoin back in 2010 and held on, but even that speaks to the same broader issue.
Bezos is worth hundreds of billions on the backs of front line workers who, until recently, made a wage that was low enough that many still qualified for public assistance, and our taxes (very little of which is paid by Amazon) have to be used to subsidize those people into a a standard living that is still just treading water.
Then, Amazon upped the wages of those workers to a level that, in many cases, was just above the cutoff for public assistance, thereby moving the quality of life needle very little, if at all.
The system that allows for Bezos to exist as he does, is the system that allows for the front line workers who work their ass off under absolutely insane conditions, under an absurd amount of monitoring and scrutiny, to make a barely livable wage.
Further, the money that Bezos' wife is handing out, while great for those institutions, was made off the labor of those same workers.
The fact that she gave that much isn't evil in a vaccuum.
The fact that one person commands enough wealth, off the backs of innumerable workers who have not reaped a meaningful fraction of that same reward despite contributing the vast majority of the sweat involved in creating that wealth, to just give away that amount of money, absolutely IS evil.
Because the issue at hand is the concentration of immense wealth to a minuscule number of people is the problem.
That those workers will, by and large pay a significantly greater percentage of their income in taxes than Amazon does as a company, is evil.
That those workers do not make a wage high enough to allow them to actively participate in the stock market that billionaires such as Bezos use to expand their fortunes exponentially off the roller coaster created by a global pandemic that disproportionately impacts the workers who built the seed capital that allowed to be in the mix to receive those gains, is absolutely evil.
If those workers received a significantly greater portion of the profits- and by that, I mean all of them, and not the paltry stock options given as part of a benefits package, but a truly equitable wage- those workers would have substantially better economic situations.
Mind you, this is just amazon.
And it's just a scratch on the surface, because there is so much more to address on the subject.
And yet, you're here talking in black and white terms, defending the symptom of the problems inherent with billionaires, without once addressing any of the problems themselves.
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