It serms incredible to me to give over a billion dollars to a random person.
The public opinions on Lemmy are fucking daffy. So on top of everything else, yall are cool with predatory gambling system that randomly ruins one person’s life?
By saying you’re not “cool” with the lottery, does that mean you want it abolished? I don’t like the lottery. I don’t think it should be outlawed. Would you classify me as either cool with it or daffy?
It’s not as grotesque as the mundane realities that we accept as normal under capitalism
There should be a cap on maximum wealth / revenu
It’s grotesque for ANYONE to have a billion dollars. Arguably the lottery winner is the only one to achieve that wealth by even sort-of ethical means.
By that measure, playing the stock exchange is just an advanced version of lottery.
It is, except for the way that money is derived from the labour of the workers, and the fact that you’re not likely to make lifestyle changing amounts of money without already having a significant amount of money to gamble in the first place.
Not to mention the system is arguably much more “rigged” thanks to the major players in the scene, when you buy a lottery ticket you aren’t competing against giant corporations that spend millions on figuring out the best way to buy lottery tickets.
there are people who have over a billion dollars worth of positive impact on the world.
There certainly have been such people. But none were ever billionaires. Such people do something which creates great value. Billionaires are parasites who do nothing but siphon value away from society.
Albert Einstein, Nikolai Vavilov, Marie Curie, Martin Luther King Jr, Alan Turing, Abraham Lincoln, Michael Faraday, Nelson Mandela, Isaac Newton, Edward Jenner, Harriet Tubman, Louis Pasteur, etc.
They should split it up into $100,000 increments. Yeah, that’s not a billion, but that could still be life-changing for thousands of families.
