Billionaires shouldn't exist
Summary
A rider with strong opinions on wealth inequality tells Kareem that billionaires shouldn't exist and need to be "shamed from society and alienated from society." She's not playing around. The conversation hits hard on how a handful of people control the world's wealth while others can't afford insulin, and she argues that Americans are more likely to become homeless than to ever see a million dollars. When Kareem asks if she'd eat the rich, she turns it around: would he eat Rihanna? He hedges, saying she's "a special case." The rider reveals she's already run for office and lost, prompting Kareem's advice: "Next time you should win.
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So, what's your take? Billionaires shouldn't exist. 100% agree. We have to abolish the ability to become a billionaire. Like, there's no reason why a a handful of people have the majority of the world's wealth that can fit into one room. Meanwhile, the rest of the world is starving and there are people that can't afford insulin.
I agree with you. Why are we still letting it happen? I think the common person just dumb.
Well, no duh. That's why billionaires are literally gutting out our government right now as we speak. Who are we supposed to call? We outnumber the billionaires. And when we wake up, when we rise up to take back our power, we have to be able to push back against this minority of a handful of people.
Do you want to eat the rich? Absolutely. Would you eat Rihanna?
She's a special case. I feel like we can talk some sense of Rihanna. Like, when we let billionaires literally, as it's happening right now, completely change the rules of the game to make them wealthier and us poorer, then that's the only result that we're going to we're going to live with. Like, we have to get to the root cause of it of why billionaires exist in the first place. But there is this very common assumption that billionaires exist because they earned their spot there. Because that takes hard work and wow, that's aspirational. They dangle it in front of our faces like we have a chance of becoming billionaires when we're more likely to become homeless than we are ever to even see a million.
Let her cook. So because of that, it's necessary for us to not look at billionaires like these aspirational names on Forbes list, but rather to be shamed from society and alienated from society. And we have to revisit the rules that allowed them to become billionaires in the first place.
I agree with you. You should run for office. I did and I lost.
Next time you should win.