More and more wealth and its concomitant 'power' concentrated into fewer and fewer hands is definitely not a good thing for many reasons! Not sure how you reconcile a 'healthy' capitalist economic system with that outcome.
I don't begrudge rich folks their fortunes if they came by them 'honestly', so to speak. In fact, I look at a lot of…
More and more wealth and its concomitant 'power' concentrated into fewer and fewer hands is definitely not a good thing for many reasons! Not sure how you reconcile a 'healthy' capitalist economic system with that outcome.
I don't begrudge rich folks their fortunes if they came by them 'honestly', so to speak. In fact, I look at a lot of them and their lives and think if that's what having MONEY does for you, I'm glad I don't have any. It's what they do with all that money and power that I often resent. That, and the fact that our government kowtows to it at virtually every level, to the detriment of us all.
For those reasons, there may indeed be no "good" billionaires in a broad sense. But I don't know...Warren Buffet always seemed rather innocuous to me in that respect. Don't know a whole lot about him, but it's kind of hard to not like a guy at least a little bit who's got that kind of dough and doesn't seem to seek the limelight much or throw his weight around excessively, and for a while at least continued to live in a relatively ordinary home and drive around in a Jeep Wrangler.
More and more wealth and its concomitant 'power' concentrated into fewer and fewer hands is definitely not a good thing for many reasons! Not sure how you reconcile a 'healthy' capitalist economic system with that outcome.
I don't begrudge rich folks their fortunes if they came by them 'honestly', so to speak. In fact, I look at a lot of them and their lives and think if that's what having MONEY does for you, I'm glad I don't have any. It's what they do with all that money and power that I often resent. That, and the fact that our government kowtows to it at virtually every level, to the detriment of us all.
For those reasons, there may indeed be no "good" billionaires in a broad sense. But I don't know...Warren Buffet always seemed rather innocuous to me in that respect. Don't know a whole lot about him, but it's kind of hard to not like a guy at least a little bit who's got that kind of dough and doesn't seem to seek the limelight much or throw his weight around excessively, and for a while at least continued to live in a relatively ordinary home and drive around in a Jeep Wrangler.