It’s Basically Just Immoral to Be Rich

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6 points·alphonsegaston··5 comments

It took a couple paragraphs before I realized this wasn’t satire - or at least, the author didn’t intend it that way.

By his logic, it’s also “basically just immoral” to have 2 kidneys. Quoting except s/dollar/kidney/: “Because every kidney you have is a kidney you’re not giving to somebody else, the decision to retain extra kidneys is a decision to deprive others.”

Per https://www.kidney.org/news/newsroom/factsheets/Organ-Donati..., “There were 5,538 living donors in 2014.” Everyone else in the US, presumably including the author, is retaining more than they need.

you're missing the author's point: it would be immoral to have 1000 kidneys while others had 1 -- that's the scale of the problem we're talking about

A majority on this forum, including those people who believe their financial situation to be dire are still in the top 1% of the richest people on the planet.

Should our minimum wage workers be funding anti-poverty programs?

I think not, it's obviously more complicated, but the logic of such articles can usually be applied in such a way and that makes me distrust everybody who thinks in this way.

This "article" is garbage and doesn't belong on HN. Even rebutting this crap is a waste of time.

Not at all.

However, so many rich people, big cuts in necessary programs, tax cuts, and a majority of Americans struggling economically just does not look good.

I'm not even making a judgement here. I am talking about that struggling majority acting out.

Gonna happen.

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