Billionaires are part of the problem.
Moreover, a socioeconomic system that allows billionaires is the problem.
I’m so sick of this capitalistic rhetoric that,
“They worked for it, they deserve to enjoy the spoils!”
Fuck.
This.
Shit.
Do you have any fucking idea the disgusting excess of that kind of money?
* 10 billionaires own more than 200 million African women (nearly ⅓) combined
* 81 billionaires own almost half of the world’s wealth
* Billionaires emit a million times more carbon than the average person
* A mere 5% of billionaires wealth is well over $500 billion
These individuals were in the right place at the right time. Sure they may have worked for it, and were savvy enough to navigate that, but in general, they hit the goddamn lottery.
And hey - they don’t need to apologize for it,
but they should sure as hell pay for it.
Not out of punishment, but out of pure fucking gratitude.
They should happily pay a wow-am-I-grateful-tax
for hitting the easiest-safest-most-comfortable-life-a-human-can-have jackpot.
I’m not mad at them for being billionaires.
I’m mad at them for their sheer gall that “they deserve it.”
I’m mad at them for spending their fortunes trying to figure out how to get to space, rather than saving the people and planet that they currently inhabit.
I’m mad at them for holding onto riches that could release *millions* - literally millions - of living, breathing people out of poverty.
I’m mad at a government that tolerates this, and therefore is complicit in the suffering of humanity.
I’m mad at a society that accepts - and often applauds - this behavior.
I’m mad that we live in an age where the distribution of this wealth would be so damn easy, yet we allow the few to hoard it.
I’m mad…
But really,
I’m sad.
I’m so fucking sad that we live in a world where we have all the resources necessary for humanity, and the natural world, to thrive
yet we collectively don’t have the desire and drive to make it happen.
(Oh, and fun fact, the people that oppose a billionaire tax are the same ones that bitch the loudest about inflation and gas prices… while it’s billionaires that are driving those things in the first place. Lolz.)
We’re better than that.
We really, truly are.
Nobody needs to be a billionaire.
Nobody.
Oh
and…
P.S.
Does thinking and feeling like this make you feel like a shameful socialist?? *GASP*
Fuck the selfish, narcissistic, gaslighting assholes that make you feel this way.
It isn’t shameful or weird to care about creating a more just, equitable world for us to live in.
