For the rest of my life I’ll feel this way about you. I have no doubt. I am living in the happiest way I ever have. I am okay - more than okay. A year later I know I’ll feel it though.
I’ll wait my years until it works out the way it will.
I’m young and happy. I’ll graduate in May with two degrees. I’ve got an amazing job when I graduate. I have lovely friends. I have met beautiful people that I’ll never see again, but damn were they beautiful.
This last year has been full of growth and self love. I diamond dot (google it). I drink too much craft beer (because of my job). I go to as many concerts as I used to - I still dance and head bang like an idiot (Darcy’s still embarrassed of me). I love deeper and have more of an appreciation of alone time.
I’m ready to end my college journey. I will never stop getting hysterical. I will never stop talking too loud or sharing too much. I will not shave my leg hair (a year running, and hopefully many more past now). I love my voice, my body, and my path more than I ever thought I would. I am complete in the way that I am and in the way that I will be.
Life changes. People come and go. Originally this was about you - as I typed though it became about me and isn’t that the best explanation of how I feel.
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.
God dammit
If you were making, for the sake of argument, $25 million a year, you could live a life of extreme luxury. Even then, it would take you forty years of spending none of that money to amass a single billion. There are multi-billionaires out there. No one needs that kind of money.
Currency came into existence to simplify trade. It was meant to make things easier and better for society. When a single person has more than they need, even more than they would need for an extravagant lifestyle, they’d completely unreasonable. Money isn’t meant to be hoarded for status. I honestly think billionaires are addicted to money.
