You want to live in a society where self-made becomes a bad thing?
The question is not only dumb (should you exist) It's a non starter for a lot of middle class people.
Dude, with all dude respect you are full of it. Your argument lacks the same nuance you complain about Bernie lacking.
Bernie and especially Warren's point is that it is immortal for Billionaires to exist while we have so much poverty , and our middle class is progressively being squeeze; and they are absolutely ******* right. It is disgusting. Part of the reason that this current state of affairs exist is because billionaires like Bloomberg use his wealth to push candidates, the put in place policies that prevent democratic majorities to solve these economic issues by taxing the rich more. Secondly we have a massive welfare state for millionaires and billionaires through our tax code. There is a greater context you want to conveniently ignore.
I will admit that of all the billionaires that exist that Bloomberg relatively made his fairer than most (from what I know about him). Secondly if were in socially Democratic state, he would probably still be a billionaire. And he does spend his money on some good causes. He should go back to doing that.
However, Bernie's point was mainly about how they use their money to finesse the system. Instead of focusing on that, you are crying about "the should you exist" question when it was a damn joking way to frame a follow up question.
So if I had to choose getting rid of poverty over getting rid of Billionaires, then the choice is clear, billionaires should go, but no one is really proposing that binary choice. I don't want to live in a world where so much economic violence exist just to protect the wealth of a billionaires. It is not as simple as just eliminating billionaires, but we as a society need to reevaluate our priorities on which class of people needs the most help. Furthermore, we need to eliminate the means for Billionaires to distort our Democratic system, and make our tax code more regressive.
Anyone with sense, knowledge of basic macro, and is not reactionary can see Bernie's or Warren's agenda will not ban billionaires. Their economic policies come no where close to being that confiscatory. So you need to drop this act like they are a some sort of marginalized class.
So please let go of your centrist pearls, and do yourself a favor and jump of that morally bankrupt hill you climbed up on to defend that ******* low life white supremacists piece of **** Mike Bloomberg.
I have no problem with Bloomberg staying a billionaire, but no ******* way should he be the President. His actions last time he held an elected office disqualifies him.
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