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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by ininewcrow@lemmy.ca to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

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.

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[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 months ago

That worked in ancient Rome for a long while ... until there was no one significant left to kill or fight against ... then the hired hands started looking at their king/billionaire and realized that they could just kill their leader and take all his wealth.

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