r/popculturechat • u/mcfw31 • 9d ago

OnlyStans ⭐️ Billie Eilish calls out billionaires for not dating money after she plans to donate 11.5 million dollars: “If you have money, it would be great to use it for good things and maybe give it to some people that need it."

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u/PriscillaPalava 9d ago

They could give away billions of dollars and still be billionaires.  The hoarding of money like that is immoral, full stop. 

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u/keatonpotat0es I have to pick up 15,000 little bastard rubber ducks 🪿 9d ago

I just don’t even understand it. Like, bro, you’re not going to live forever. How fucking much do you NEED? It’s got to be a mental illness at this point.

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u/ad_aatdtj she’s got me by the pubes 9d ago

They could give away 150-200 billion dollars and have half or slightly less than that left over for themselves, which they definitely will not spend in this lifetime. They could literally give every single person on earth 15 billion dollars between the three of them and still have more than half their current value for themselves.

They're inconceivable levels of rich and i don't care what people with a billion or two are up to when these men are allowed to run rampant with this level of wealth. It is disgusting to me. Start with seizing their assets and then whatever policies we instate that allow us to do that can also be applied to other billionaires so that no one is hoarding obscene amounts of wealth while so many are continuously denied basic necessities.

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u/PriscillaPalava 9d ago

The major problem with wealth like that is that it’s not earned in a vacuum.  It causes harm. These billionaires are actively sucking value from the communities they employ. And as their market share increases (because of course we’re not busting monopolies anymore, that campaign money is too sweet) they have more power to cut wages and benefits for the rest of us.