• soratoyuki@lemmy.world
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    The vanishingly small amount of people that will be unfathomably rich in a privatized post-scarcity economy will give us just enough in UBI to make sure we can buy our Mountain Dew verification cans. And without the ability to withhold our labor as a class, we’ll have no peaceful avenue to improve our conditions.

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      Why are you obsessed around wealth of other people? You should be more concerned about your own income rather than some super wealthy CEO

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        Because my labor creates their super wealth, and because they’re destroying the planet to maintain it.

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        Because, as OP points out, wealth disparity is a zero-sum game. Being concerned about the super wealthy is being concerned about our own income.

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          wealth disparity is a zero-sum game

          Except it’s not. That wealth isn’t cash in some bank account, in most cases it’s a stock in companies these people built from scratch - Bezos made Amazon, Gates Microsoft, Buffet Berkshire Hathaway and so on

          The wealth of super rich is allocated in places that produce goods and services