Billionaires - Right or Wrong

[Neville Kneville]

Moral or not, if you try to limit the wealth of these people, they will in future, move all their money & invest in countries which don't.

Nobody needs that much money but there is little can be done about it.

 

[blueinsa]

All sat in Davos right now and probably spending more on a bottle of wine than we earn in a year.

Bastards!

 

[BobKowalski]

All sat in Davos right now and probably spending more on a bottle of wine than we earn in a year.

Bastards!

Billionaires don’t go to Davos. They send the politicians that work for them to go to Davos.

 

[blueinsa]

Billionaires don’t go to Davos. They send the politicians that work for them to go to Davos.

There will be a few there that meet the qualifying criteria I've little doubt.

 

[bluethrunthru]

Billionaires don’t go to Davos. They send the politicians that work for them to go to Davos.

In reality they BUY the politicians that they then send to Davos to do their work for them.

 

[Henkeman]

How dare people be far more successful than me. It must be stopped*


*except when I want to buy their products, or if they employ me.

 

[Cityfan]

Most human capabilities including things like intelligence hard work etc was far as one can measure them have a fairly classical Gaussian distribution some people have far more capabilities than others undoubtedly, some people work harder. However the material rewards that society affords people is not distributed in the same way there is quite a large skew to a very few very prosperous people this strikes me as being intrinsically a little unfair . How best to remedy it whilst maintaining incentives for people I don't know.

 

[bluethrunthru]

Moral or not, if you try to limit the wealth of these people, they will in future, move all their money & invest in countries which don't.

Nobody needs that much money but there is little can be done about it.

How does James Dyson fit into that? I mean there are no limits applied here, he is always telling us how Great it will be in Great Britain post Brexit and couldn't be more patriotic in his statements - as he packs his bags and fucks off with his business and his £9.5bn personal wealth? Truth is they are fickle self centred people who need no excuse really. Hope his UK sales fall off a fucking cliff.

 

[blueinsa]

Hope his UK sales fall off a fucking cliff.

They wont because his product is brilliant.

 

[inbetween]

How does James Dyson fit into that? I mean there are no limits applied here, he is always telling us how Great it will be in Great Britain post Brexit and couldn't be more patriotic in his statements - as he packs his bags and fucks off with his business and his £9.5bn personal wealth? Truth is they are fickle self centred people who need no excuse really. Hope his UK sales fall off a fucking cliff.

Dyson employs over 12,000 people.

The richest man in the world owns Amazon who employ 27,500 in the UK.

I don't understand why some people are so against Brexit in terms of the economic impact but they are completely for punitive actions against rich people/companies which will cost people their jobs?