Literally no one, NO ONE should be a billionaire

The Week ^ | June 2019 | Jeff Spros

[Robwin]

According to the website CelebsMemoir Diane Feinstein is worth $80 million. Close, and if she and hubby can plunder the federal government for a few more bucks, she will join the billionaires club.

[NativeSon]

deprivation of opportunity - now, that right there, how is that “meaningful outside it’s mooring”?

If anyone, any ideology, is responsible for the deprivation of opportunities, that would be the leftists/communists currently driving their humanistic, identity agenda.

exhibit A- men calling themselves women to compete with/against women. Say bye-bye to those athletic scholarships, ladies.

[Dr. Ursus]

Your boy Jamie and the rest of the rich are defecating themselves that a democrat that they have always championed may win and take away their billions. They deserve to get screwed!

[SES1066]

Harrison Bergeron

Glad you beat me to this but let’s give a link for the uninformed; Harrison Bergeron is a Kurt Vonnegut 1961 short story about an *FORCIBLY* EQUALIZED 2081 America.

[Gen.Blather]

I recently had the privilege of attending a Silicon Valley startup’s board meeting. Most of these people were very well off. I marveled at some of the ideas and reasoning of these people. Three of them were so far above average it was like sitting in a room with the business equivalent of Albert Einstein. These people were already well off and could be living a life of leisure. Instead they were working like beavers and, what did they want? Everything was focused on bringing to market a new technology that had the possibility of benefiting mankind. Yes, if it works they are going to make money, but their driving vision is to make life better for people. The subject of making money came up perhaps three times, but in the context of how it would effect their next venture.

I am all in favor of income inequality. For every Michael Bloomberg there are ten people like these.

[foreverfree]

bump

[ml/nj]

People who have a problem with billionaires are the problem.

ML/NJ

[Jamestown1630]

LOL! Trump did it backwards.

[CodeToad]

Ironic since most of the people democraps get their money from are billionaires, including George Soros.

[napscoordinator]

I always thought they should separate business with individual taxes. That’d be a great way to see what really goes on with taxes.

[StormEye]

You have me at a disadvantage. I've never heard of
or read Harrison Bergeron.
I apologize for my ignorance.

[Dr. Sivana]

I don’t think drugs can do everything - or do everything safely.

Of course not, I was just coming up with a scenario where a mancould make a trillion dollars because tens of millions of people would be throwing lots of money at him.

[Jamestown1630]

I wonder sometimes, though, if answers to managing various cancers exist, but are disregarded for various reasons of profit or medical ‘ideology’.

[Dr. Sivana]

I wonder sometimes, though, if answers to managing various cancers exist, but are disregarded for various reasons of profit or medical ‘ideology’.

Well, a lot of people go to other countries (e.g. Mexico) to get these treatments, and sometimes medicines that have known effects are banned in this country while allowed in similar countries. For instance, domperidone is used for stomach conditions, but has a known side-effect of causing premenopausal women to lactate, so it is popular among adoptive breastfeeding mothers. It is also not approved for sale in the U.S., but is readily available throughout the rest of the world. Best as I can tell, the U.S. has favored drugs whose producers keep domperidone off of the market, as it doesn't have any deal-breaker side-effects. I don't think any super-anti-cancer drug falls in this category, because I don't see big pharma being able to shut down Russia, Israel, Singapore, Japan, India, etc. if it had been developed or even released there by a westerner who was getting the squeeze stateside.

[Magnatron]

These idiots actually seem to believe that billionaires have a giant cache of cash laying in a vault like Scrooge McDuck.

Billionaire’s monies are usually tied up in employing non-billionaires.

[ClearCase_guy]

I think that is exactly what some of these people think. There are just piles of money. Everyone could be a millionaire and just live a life of leisure. The only thing preventing that are the evil rich Republican billionaires who sit on enormous piles of money. If we just spread that around, everyone will be happy. Or something.

[CommerceComet]

If I were a billionaire, I wouldn’t be. I’d give most of it away to deserving charities, evangelical churches, and making sure my loyal employees never had to worry about financial security. My family and I would live very comfortably but not extravagantly. I would spend a fortune on tax experts so that I don’t have to pay any more than necessary to the government so that I can continue to spend the money much more wisely than they would.

[CommerceComet]

I hit the send button too fast.

I was going to add that while that's what I would do with the wealth, I wouldn't impose those plans on anyone else.

[headsonpikes]

No need to apologize - you nailed it by yourself!

It’s a great short read, though.

[organicchemist]

That is from what is called “The Speech” when Reagan bought air time to support Barry Goldwater in 1964. It marked his becoming a major political figure.
I often go to https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/sspeeches/major-speeches-1964-1989 in order to hear his talks. Since it is Veterans Day I’ll likely listen to his speech at Pointe du Hoc at the D Day anniversary ceremony and then start blubbering