nir.eth
@nir
Maybe I’m crazy, but I consider myself a capitalist and just don’t really understand this logic. Feels like being a reasonable logical person with nuanced opinions has completely faded. All that’s left is Mamdani or Thiel. Gemini’s black founding fathers or Grok’s mechahitler. Pick a side https://x.com/garrytan/status/1942992514954224025?s=46
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Evan
@evangreenberg
I’ve been talking to many socialists about thing on here for the last week. It comes down to the black and white question of should our goal as a society be to eliminate all billionaires or to make everyone a billionaire? I’m not saying either is going to happen, but the policy decisions based on your choice are very different. That being said, I think best case is that technology could make it so costs trend to zero and that having a billion dollars doesn’t actually buy you much more that having less. To me, that’s a definition of everyone “being billionaires” and is a much better goal than redistribution wealth so that billionaires don’t exist
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nir.eth
@nir
I'm definitely more pro-billionaire than anti. The problem with the future case you laid out is that the value of human labor will most likely trend to 0 much faster than the cost of living. We just have to be honest about that. I don't think the question should be that black and white. I believe in equal opportunity, and I don't think we get there by advocating for more billionaires. Not sure I have the answer, but maybe it's something along the lines of more millionaires and roughly the same amount of billionaires.
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