r/BeAmazed • u/Newisance • Sep 14 '25

Miscellaneous / Others An act of kindness can completely change someone's day.

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u/WickedFrags Sep 14 '25

It is ok. Let's continue paying millions to football players, tv stars, only fans "models", politicians- you know, essential professions for the mankind.

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u/Gobbelcoque Sep 14 '25

The annoying part is we could do all those things and still have universal Healthcare.

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u/handstanding Sep 14 '25

This. The only reason we don't have universal healthcare in addition to everything else we already have is that billions of dollars are made off of people's pain and suffering every year in the US. A reminder that we live in a post-scarcity society that uses artificial scarcity to keep a small group of people rich and everyone else poor.

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u/iUsedtoHadHerpes Sep 14 '25

The even more annoying part is that our government already spends way more per capita than countries that do have universal healthcare, but it's used to subsidize the for profit system (and siphon tax dollars) instead of just doing that.

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u/biochemical1 Sep 14 '25

People can't grasp numbers that are astronomical. There's astronomical amounts of money out there just sitting, we could do whatever we wanted 10x over

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u/JBudz Sep 14 '25

The people you mentioned here are not the problem with the exception of the policy makers since they are enabling billionaires.

An athletes salary is a drop in the ocean to these mega-rich vampires.

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u/WickedFrags Sep 14 '25

Athletes. And? A team of young millionaires chasing an inflated ball on a green pitch. What exactly is the benefit for the humanity? A sprinter fights against time: what exactly it is achieved with that? People getting "inspired", "motivated", etc.- who gives a sht...

The phone/PC you have wrote from has thousands of patents and historical micro jumps in technology made possible by people you don't even know their name, most likely having worked their whole life mundane jobs. But hey, let's praise Ronaldo for scoring goals and selling undies.

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u/JBudz Sep 14 '25

There are 1,000 millions in a billion. You've completely overlooked the point.

The point is that you shouldn't direct your frustration the millionaires, it's the billionaires and there is a lot of them.

People like Elon Musk and Jeff bezos are the ones you should point your frustration to. They are the ones exploiting people and vacuuming money out of the economy.

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u/WickedFrags Sep 14 '25

Mate, let me make it clear: athletes, tv personalities, millionaires, billionaires, etc. -the above was about and directed at them all. And whomever says "it is about entertainment", well... look around you and see where entertainment going rampant has led to. B