LogFAQs > #955794440

People having that much wealth is absolutely toxic for our society. You don't get that much without exploiting the hell out of workers, breaking anti-trust law, manipulating the tax system etc. It breeds hero worship. It lets specific individuals exercise immense control over the lives of others, politically and economically. It encourages those people to act like they're not bound by the rule of law or like they're fundamentally above other human beings. It creates people who are loyal only to wealth, not country, society, or even humanity. It pretends that hoarding of resources while human beings on this planet starve, get sick, or freeze/burn to death from a lack of resources is not a ghoulish thing to do. Then when they start foundations to give that away, even that reinforces the idea that wealth should remain in their hands and all societal progress should be directed by them and proceed on their wishes.

You can criticize all of that without jealousy entering the picture at all. We recognized in the gilded age that excessive wealth is terrible and yet we've forgotten.

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