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0 pointsthe_optimist4y ago0 comments

How much could you possibly need to live a good life? Certainly not more than, say, $50 per day, right? Let’s simply cap ourselves there.

I say this to demonstrate that “ungodly” always means “more than me,” irrespective of all else. Justification through jealousy. A recipe for a lowest-common denominator society, at global scale.

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permo-w4y ago

>How much could you possibly need to live a good life? Certainly not more than, say, $50 per day, right? Let’s simply cap ourselves there

You say that as if it's ridiculous. That sounds fine to me. Warren Buffet espouses exactly the same thing I'm saying. Is that jealousy too?

Ungodly means more than you need. No one needs a billion dollars. The top marginal tax rate was 90% in the 1960s, and guess what? inequality was much lower

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0 pointsthe_optimist4y ago0 comments

How much could you possibly need to live a good life? Certainly not more than, say, $50 per day, right? Let’s simply cap ourselves there.

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permo-w4y ago

>How much could you possibly need to live a good life? Certainly not more than, say, $50 per day, right? Let’s simply cap ourselves there

You say that as if it's ridiculous. That sounds fine to me. Warren Buffet espouses exactly the same thing I'm saying. Is that jealousy too?

Ungodly means more than you need. No one needs a billion dollars. The top marginal tax rate was 90% in the 1960s, and guess what? inequality was much lower

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