• TheColonel@reddthat.com
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    8 hours ago

    Do you think billionaires operate in a moral fashion? That their journey was one paved to the top by the ethical treatment of others?

    Perhaps we need a new morality because I find that operating inside of prescribed moral bounds is shooting yourself in the foot when making this particular kind of argument.

    You operate morally, they use every dirty trick in the book, including killing you.

    • JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee
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      Just because some of them indirectly kill people doesn’t make it moral to kill them. Maybe if it actually would make the world better, you could have a utilitarian argument for it, but as long as you just kill individual billionaires and not creating a new socialist system they’ll just be replaced by new billionaires. As I said, regardless of whether it’s moral to kill them, it won’t help.

      • GlockenGold@lemmy.world
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        All of them indirectly kill people. It’s impossible to be a billionaire and a moral person, as a moral person would spend that wealth to improve the lives of others. You can say that “oh but this billionaire runs a charity!”, but how much of their own wealth do they give to it? Would a moral billionaire rely on the money of others to make change in the world? Would they still be a billionaire if they truly wanted change?