You say this like somebody just gave them billions of dollars. Tesla came through with electric cars with the performance of sports cars. Bezos made shopping from the comfort of your own home a reality. Gates simplified computers to the point where they were accessible to everyone (a lot of people are too old to remember when you had to type in a specific command prompt for every action you needed a computer to do).
Money and resources will always flow from consumers to producers. Its inevitable.
Even if you abolished money and assigned resources to every person on earth, first you would have women trading sex and attention for extra resources. Dudes would be like "I only really need to eat once a day, you can have my meat and bread queen". You'd have people with marketable skills trading their labor for extra resources.
then some enterprising individual would come through and find a way or invent something to get those people to trade their resources.
Wealth inequality is inevitable.
That's why the whole "eat the rich" thing is stupid.
As if there's some magical line where a person should willingly give up providing a service people are willing to pay for.
You'd just keep killing every innovative, productive, or resourceful person that pops up until you disincentive innovation, production, and resourcefulness then your society free falls into starvation and despair.
Why do you think starvation is such a reliable feature of socialist governments?
Fam with all due respect you are wrong wrong wrong ...... For example the reason why Amazon is so big and is shutting down all the malls in America is that they dont pay any tax
Please explain to me how America has benefited by losing enormous amounts of tax revenue , has lost thousands of stores and jobs , and has allowed this company with all its money to get away with having their workers endure terrible conditions
Please tell me how one company having a near monopoly in the retail sector is good for consumers
The problem is your approach , You seem to think innovation means progress
For example within 10 years most delivery trucks will be self driving , even call centres wont be manned by real people , companies will fool a lot of people with your view of capitalism by saying , this will make production more efficient , cheaper etc....
and suckers , eat that bullshyt up , companies do this because it saves them money because they have less workers , and please dont tell me you believe the savings will be passed to the consumer because it wont
But let me tell you where America is really going to be fukked , Robots do not fukking pay taxes , you have an aging population and very soon you will not have enough working people paying taxes to support the economy
Robots dont buy Iphones , see what happens when you dont have enough people working to buy all the useless shyt to support the economy
And please dont you dare tell me that the creation of new industries will create jobs... it aint happening
The fact that you can write such a thoughtful post and at the same time promote the absolute lie that welth creation is good for America is beyond me
Whats good for Amazon is good for Amazon not what is good for America
You promote capitalism but fail to mention the one fundamental rule for any corporation , their first and top priority is to make money for their shareholders , regardless as to whether this is a hindrance to the American economy , hence them not paying tax ....Any CEO that tells you he is putting the interests of America first deserves to be taken outside and shot
This is what happens when people look at the economy from a political perspective , they never look past 10 years , fukk what these policies are going to do down the line , as long as were posting good figures while im in office its all; good
Biggest con since Ronald Reagan got people to believe trickledown economics works
since this been around
these people would be trying to rethink how we shouldn't structure our lives around simply going to work
