So you are saying 0% of the world should be billionaires?
Yes.
Why shouldn’t their be billionaires? That makes no sense.
Because the existence of billionaires is predicated on the exploitation of human labor and unsustainable environmental harm. That level of wealth hoarding is harmful to economies, as it reduces the amount of money in circulation. No one person, no family, could ever conceivably even SPEND a billion dollars anyway, and it is inherently immoral to accumulate wealth so narrowly while so much of the world lives in abject poverty.
Better then to create a wealth ceiling, a point at which all wealth over a certain point is taxed at or very near 100% to incentivize people to actually spend their money rather than hoard it, stimulating the economy and bettering the lives of far more people. Better even still to create and regulate economic systems that protect workers and the environment in a way that such extreme levels of wealth accumulation aren’t even feasible.
The problem with this is that it reduces the incentive to actually do fiscally well. What’s the point of starting a business if you can’t become wealthy?
There is a very real difference between “reasonably wealthy” and A BILLIONAIRE
No one is saying you shouldn’t have a nice house, we are saying that having multiple really, really ridiculously nice houses while your employees are either homeless or at serious risk of becoming homeless is immoral.
I’ll never understand why this concept is hard for people. I think it’s because they can’t actually fathom how much $1 Billion is.
Seriously.
Let’s say you have a badass job. A great job. You make $100 AN HOUR. You work 10 hours a day ($1000 A DAY), 5 days a week ($5000 a week!!!), every week ($20,000 A MONTH), thats $240,000 Every Year.
It would take you 4,167 years to make a billion dollars.
Most people feed their pets the same thing every day. That’s like us eating the exact same thing, for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, for our entire lives.
“Listening to my voice on this night,
Even though presents are everything, I only have this for you.
In this bustling world,
The reason why I breathe, it’s you.”
“I hope this song will be a comfort for everyone. I feel that last lines of the lyrics are important: ‘You did well. You really worked hard. You are my pride.’”
— On “하루의 끝 (End of a Day)”, 하루 끝의 V LIVE (source: Magic Marshmallow)
its his birthday tomorrow and i dont think i can cope. losing him has been so hard, and ive also started having to use a wheelchair recently, im mentally and physically destroyed by this. i dont want to keep doing this. i dont want to have to celebrate without him
Hello, love. I’m so sorry that you are feeling like this. Really. I am so so so sorry. I am not qualified to give you advice, but I still hope that in some way my words can be a comfort to you.
I can understand some of these feelings, although we are different people so no doubt we experience things a little bit differently (and I don’t want to undermine your experience when I say that). But it’s hard. It is really really hard.
It hasn’t been that long. Only a few months. Be patient with yourself, and be gentle with yourself. Allow yourself to be sad when you feel sad, but also allow yourself to be happy when you feel happy. Whatever you are feeling, that is okay.
I want to share some words with you from an article I found a few months ago (tw death, suicide: note that while I have hyperlinked the article, there is a quote from his letter and a photo from his funeral in the article which may be triggering so please use caution). The most important part of the article reads:
“I think it’s legitimate, your grief,” said Jacque Lynn Foltyn, a professor of sociology at National University in California who has studied celebrity deaths for years. “First of all, there’s the loss of a person, even though you may have never met him. Then there’s a loss of his art, and his future art, which is your loss. It’s losing a part of yourself, actually. A part of your future expectations because his future productions are gone.”
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Oftentimes, a celebrity is a person’s “first love” as they come of age, said Foltyn — the pop icon you had on your wall as a teen, someone through whom you could impart your desire and emotions from a safe distance. Losing them is like saying goodbye to someone who shaped who you became.
These words from this article helped me come to terms with why I was feeling so shattered by his passing (although it’s still something I haven’t quite figured out yet). I hope it can be of help to you as well.
I’m sending you all of my warmest thoughts and love and I truly wish the best for you. We may not know each other, we may have never seen each other face to face, but we share a love for a beautiful man who healed broken spirits with his art. Please remember that you are special and important, even when it’s hard to see that for yourself. Jonghyun always taught me that.
Please take care of yourself and come talk to me anytime you need to. I’m always here for you. It’s a hard day today, but we will get through it together. <3
“I am not someone who looks at things optimistically. Even when I look at flowers, I think about things like how short life is like, ‘Ah, even the flower will wither eventually.’ It’s the same for dandelions, it’s the same for cherry blossoms. I realised even if they bloom so charmingly, they wither eventually.”
I know it sounds fake but you really do have a lot of silent lovers on this planet who look at you and wish they had your smile or your hair color or your humor or your intellect or your intentions or your heart, your manners, your eyes, your ease, even just you. People who are too shy to tell you what they admire about you or what they wish for you or who they see themselves becoming bc of you & they’re too shy to tell you. even tho it isn’t verbalized, the universe has still heard and the universe has loved you for helping out on its creations. You’re that person. You’re you.
