Those two are very different sums of money.
But if you're very rich, you can't be a good person, there's no way to accumulate that kind of wealth without exploiting others.
But then again, we all live in capitalist societies that have been built on exploiting the shit out of others, so there's quite a bit of hypocrisy in my post.
I suppose it depends upon how it was made and what they do with it once they have it. If it's hoarding wealth for wealth's sake then, yea, probably an issue. It seems though, there are some that have obtained wealth and chose philanthropy.
The first example I thought of was Bill Gates. He amassed his wealth from a corporation that employed anti-competitive and immoral business practices. That makes him “bad”.
But what he has done with his fortune in the past few decades definitely doesn’t make him a bad person. Is his foundation and its goals the most efficient way to go from point A to point B? Probably not. Does that make him a bad person? Probably not, but it also doesn’t absolve him of sins he committed in the past.
Theoretically... yes and no? First of all it's a given that any truly rich person in today's day and age is a capitalist, no exceptions.
Modern capitalism is based on the assumption that "maximizing profit" leads to the best outcome for everyone... which is not true. So if theoretically a rich person is trying to be 100% rational then they cannot be "good"
On the other hand... also theoretically, rich ppl have a lot more resources to give and support causes they care about, so on this aspect they could be good? I know ppl who donate a ton to social causes but I honestly don't know how much of their donations can be attributed to tax benefits
In practice... I guess most of what you could call "good" people wouldn't want to make that much money in the first place? Or it could just be probability, good people and rich people are both quite rare, so good+rich is even rarer (if we assume they are independent).
Favorite in terms of "food with X in it," or favorite in terms of adding it? Because if it's the first one, it turns out I love me some damn onions something fierce. If it's just "which ingredient do you enjoy adding," eggs every time. So satisfying.
I love Nier:Automata. The sound track, gameplay, story, all of it is just tied together so well. It impacted me so much and is definitely my favorite game. Planning on getting a tattoo based on the black box and lunar tear from the game someday
@readbeanicecream i really was glad to find kbin, i want to use my fgc.network @genericgamer (mastadon based? still very new) to interact with that and this.
i just lack the know how or if it's possible at this point.
I lost faith in Reddit after Aaron Swartz died. The biggest lesson I learned in HS was that knowledge was real power and trust fundies will always try to take access to it and that’s what’s going on in the social media sphere these days.
I've been full time remote since 2021. Been loving it since I'm a hermit and an introvert.
I've made almost no change in lifestyle or routine. I work in a pharma/biotech-adjacent industry.
The bulk of the accounts had either sub-zero or single-digit reputation, which was weird. And it maybe have discouraged people from joining kbin from reddit, where karma was more easy to understand.
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