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[โ€“] VubDapple@lemmy.world 142 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Many people do not grasp the sheer size of the disparity between the truly wealthy and everyone else.

[โ€“] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 46 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They really think billionaires are like them, the only difference is that someone else goes to Walmart for them

[โ€“] Bobmighty@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Billionaires are like everyone else. That's the reason I don't look up to any. They're just as human as I am. No amount of money can ever make them anything else or anything more. They have access to an absurd degree, and they can afford far, FAR more, but they will never escape their base human nature. Almost anyone can be a billionaire. Some current billionaires prove that every moment they open their mouths.

[โ€“] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Or they take capitalism as good and freedom as an axiom.

[โ€“] GarbageShootAlt2@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 month ago

Most people will take "freedom" as an axiom, but how "freedom" is defined varies a lot. In a society where the commons are pretty much fully enclosed and you are homeless, the petite-bourgeois may very well be free, but you really aren't.