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It still would have been better if workers got the money in the first place. There are no good billionaires.

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Your real thoughts are leaking there. “No, don’t give the money to the starving and homeless that need it most! You are supposed to give it to us!”

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people become billionaires through wage theft. that money should not be his to give in the first place. Plus, the starving are unemployed because the unemployment rate is artificially controlled economically in order to pressure the working class into accepting bad work conditions.

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people become billionaires through wage theft.

Quite the assumption assertion. Can I also just assume assert bad things you did with no evidence? PS: I mean that he specifically became billionaires through wage theft. I am sure many others did.

Plus, the starving are unemployed because the unemployment rate is artificially controlled economically in order to pressure the working class into accepting bad work conditions.

Which, even if it was true, he would be unable to change, just as the two of us are.

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My real thoughts are that we should get rid of the elites who prop up the current system so that homelessness doesn’t have to exist anymore. Don’t put words into my mouth.

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If your goal was to end homelessness and other societal woes, you would not say that a billionaire working to do the exact same thing using different means is not good. That is why I wrote you exposed your true motivations ;)

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You gonna pack some more words into his mouth or, you done?

Yeah, kinda pathetic.

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Uuu, copium is strong here 🤣

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Starving people are the result of class divides.

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Which is irrelevant when discussing the morality of a person who bridged that divide by giving his wealth away.

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What makes you think the workers downstream from him are not among the starving and homeless?

What makes you think a system where workers are fairly compensated would not also be a better system for food/housing security?

I’m assuming this isn’t a dumb comment and just a fun thought exercise.

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Or that people remain homeless because they know a job wont solve their homelessness.

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What makes you think the workers downstream from him are not among the starving and homeless?

Because RoyaltyInTraining made that statement without referring to any additional information? So I obviously assume that he made his statement based on the information in the post.

Besides, even if they were, would donating the money be less effective than paying them in wages? Charitable donations are tax exempt, wages are not. Also, you assume he was in a position where he could do anything about the worker wages, which seems unlikely given how most companies work (wiki says he was not a full owner, just co-founder).

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