if you got 100 000 cakes that you must eat them all in 1 month and i take away from you 10 cakes or even 1000 did it really matter to you?
if you got 2 cakes for a month and i take away 1 does this matter?
All of these "100 richest people" probably give away more than 100x what you earn in a year already. Are you honestly going to call them selfish?
If you are, then you are saying everyone should give away as much of their "cakes" as possible. Can you afford to give away an extra "cake"? Probably. Then you are selfish too, by your own logic.
A quote from Charlie Chaplin:" The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate... has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed."
Yes. Charity is a feel-good hypocrisy (or worse, just a tax saving measure).
Nobody made huge tons of money without other people's blood under it. And especially not the top 1%.
Even a record artist that makes money from his songs (so he doesn't hurt anyone personally) is taking advantage of a huge system of that makes possible the money his audience spends (e.g from the stealing of the native indian lands to the US invading other countries for cheap oil, to the domestic market taking advantage of sweatshop labour in third world --that the colonial powers have first razed--, etc).
>If you are, then you are saying everyone should give away as much of their "cakes" as possible. Can you afford to give away an extra "cake"? Probably. Then you are selfish too, by your own logic.
Maybe. But:
1) being selfish for your 1 extra cake and being selfish for 1,000,000 cakes is hugely different.
2) being selfish is a personal moral issue that is insignificant compared to the systemic problem of mass wealth accumulation.
Overly dramatic sensationalism - ripped straight from a first year college pamphlet on how to be angry at the man - at its best.
And all it warrants is a simple: prove it. Such an extraordinary claim, you should do it the justice of demonstrating it as fact.
No, actually pretty much pragmatic and casual. That's how the work works (at least as it is).
Unlike your ad-hominen attack, which was childish ("oh, a stereotypical fake college revolutionary", etc).
>And all it warrants is a simple: prove it. Such an extraordinary claim, you should do it the justice of demonstrating it as fact.
Nothing extraordinary about it.
And you even missed the example I gave. Here are a few other examples, barely scratching the most obvious facts:
(1) Large part of the Southern US GDP was for centuries based on slave labour. Today's fortunes, nicely paved streets, etc.
(2) The wealth of European societies has been subsidized from 1500 to 1950 from colonies and occupated land all over the third world.
(3) If you have a home anywhere in the US, is because some people back in the day took the land of previous inhabitants.
(4) Cheap oil in the West depends on military and political pressure (instead of open market exchange) from toppling Iran's elected government back in the day to invading Iraq et al.