From: fedora@fea.st   
      
   On Sun, 1 Feb 2026 12:03:45 -0500, Wilson    
   wrote:   
      
   >On 1/31/2026 4:44 PM, Dude wrote:   
   >> On 1/31/2026 10:30 AM, dart200 wrote:   
   >>> because billionaires don't have morals, and are slave to chasing what   
   >>> they perceive as profit regardless of the effect of others   
   >>>   
   >>> there's a reason rich people can't make it into heaven   
   >>>   
   >>> cause we can't even build heaven when rich people exist   
   >>>   
   >> Because it's obvious that you are biased by even using the term "rich".   
   >> There's a good reason people don't want to be equally poor.   
   >   
   >By global standards everyone here is rich.   
   >   
   >If there were somehow a sudden great leveling of worldwide wealth today   
   >it would almost certainly result in the end of our civilization.   
      
   There's an excuse to do nothing and leave everything like it is. Could   
   it be possible to do things the right way this time?  Maybe?   
      
   >Any   
   >actual progress towards the improvement of living standards has always   
   >come from innovation, which requires a degree of concentration of   
   >wealth. Long-term overall improvement has never resulted from forced   
   >redistribution.   
   >   
   >That doesn't mean we shouldn't help other people who need it. It does   
   >however seem pretty obvious to me that assistance should never be from   
   >any sort of centralized coercion.   
   >   
   >Forced redistribution is regressive and not progressive.   
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