Everytime I look at small problems or big global problems, if you follow the money trail, it all leads to some billionaire who is either working towards increasing their wealth or protecting their wealth from decreasing.

Everything from politics, climate change, workers rights, democratic government, technology, land rights, human rights can all be rendered down to people fighting another group of people who defend the rights of a billionaire to keep their wealth or to expand their control.

If humanity got rid of or outlawed the notion of any one individual owning far too much money than they could ever possibly spend in a lifetime, we could free up so much wealth and energy to do other things like save ourselves from climate change.

    • IninewCrow@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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      6 months ago

      It’s like every group of people in the world regardless if they are American or not … this only applies to the billionaires who are only a very small minority of the global population.

      Just look around you and anyone you have remotely interacted with in your life … are they a billionaire? If yes then they are affected … if not, nothing changes.

      All this talk about billionaires would only affect a few hundred people across the eight billion people on the planet.

      Either we shift our thinking to getting rid of billionaires … or we continue to stand aside and let them rule the world to our collective detriment.