So you are saying 0% of the world should be billionaires?
Yes.
Why shouldn’t their be billionaires? That makes no sense.
Because the existence of billionaires is predicated on the exploitation of human labor and unsustainable environmental harm. That level of wealth hoarding is harmful to economies, as it reduces the amount of money in circulation. No one person, no family, could ever conceivably even SPEND a billion dollars anyway, and it is inherently immoral to accumulate wealth so narrowly while so much of the world lives in abject poverty.
Better then to create a wealth ceiling, a point at which all wealth over a certain point is taxed at or very near 100% to incentivize people to actually spend their money rather than hoard it, stimulating the economy and bettering the lives of far more people. Better even still to create and regulate economic systems that protect workers and the environment in a way that such extreme levels of wealth accumulation aren’t even feasible.
The problem with this is that it reduces the incentive to actually do fiscally well. What’s the point of starting a business if you can’t become wealthy?
There is a very real difference between “reasonably wealthy” and A BILLIONAIRE
No one is saying you shouldn’t have a nice house, we are saying that having multiple really, really ridiculously nice houses while your employees are either homeless or at serious risk of becoming homeless is immoral.
I’ll never understand why this concept is hard for people. I think it’s because they can’t actually fathom how much $1 Billion is.
Seriously.
Let’s say you have a badass job. A great job. You make $100 AN HOUR. You work 10 hours a day ($1000 A DAY), 5 days a week ($5000 a week!!!), every week ($20,000 A MONTH), thats $240,000 Every Year.
It would take you 4,167 years to make a billion dollars.
Keep in mind then, that if you got paid $1000 an hour, 10 hours a day, five days a week, every week, all year, it would still take over 400 years to make a billion.
You want to make one billion in a human lifetime? If you made $10,000 an HOUR, 10 hours a day, 5 days a week, every week, all year, it would take you 41 years to hit a billion.
(And that’s not counting, ya know, money you spend to stay alive on food or rent or anything. )
this is so surreal, is this a set of fake gifs of like tom holland defending an imaginary nonbinary partner in an interview but made to look real? why would you make this. what is going on. what am i looking at here?
Trumpers are now saying they’d rather be Russian than Democrats. We’ve
reached it folks. The point where they no longer care about committing
treason as long as it spites the liberals #TrumpRussia
HERA – Queen of Gods/Goddess of Marriage & Birth (Queen Angela Bassett)
ZEUS – King of Gods/God of Sky and Thunder (Idris Elba)
POSEIDON – God of Seas and Earthquakes (Mahersala Ali)
HADES – God of the Dead/Ruler of the Underworld (Ricky Whittle)
ATHENA – Goddess of Wisdom, War, and Justice (Danai Gurira)
APHRODITE – Goddess of Beauty, Sexual Love, and Affection (Rihanna)
NIKE– Goddess of Speed, Strength, and Victory (Serena Williams)
PERSEPHONE – Goddess of Vegetation and Spring/Queen of the Underworld. (SZA)
IRIS – Goddess of the Rainbow and Messenger of the Gods. (Janelle Monae)
ARES -God of War and Violence (Michael B. Jordan)
Part 2 is on my Dashboard or under the tag #blackgodsandgoddesses.
Edit: I know there are already black gods and goddesses in mythology native to Africa. And I’d love to explore those characters and their personalities. Like many bookworms, I loved Greek mythology when i was younger and I thought it’d be cool to cast them with black people in the roles to celebrate blackness. Plus, greek mythology has been interpreted and reinterpreted in so many many ways. And let’s face it: they’re gods. They can look however they want and baby: black is beautiful 🤷🏾♀️
HEPHAESTUS – God of Fire, Metalworking, and Sculpture (Chadwick Boseman)
ARTEMIS – Goddess of the Moon, Hunt, Wilderness, and Virginity (Tessa Thompson)
APOLLO – God of Medicine, Music, Archery, and the Sun (Stromae)
DIONYSUS – God of Wine, Theater, and [Religious] Ectasy (Kendrick Lamar)
DEMETER – Goddess of Agriculture, Fertility, and the Harvest (The Viola Davis)
Hermes – God of Thieves and Travelers/Messenger of the Gods and Guide to the Underworld (Donald Glover)
MORPHEUS – God of Dreams and Sleep or CRONOS – God of Time (Morgan Freeman)
TERPSICHORE – Muse/Goddess of Chorus and Dance (Beyonce Knowles)
Part 2 of Black Gods and Goddesses [Greek]
There’s probably going to be Part 3 and I may edit this one. I’m a little unsure of Hermes. I think Glover would be a good Pan, God of Wildnerness and Fertility 🤔 You can find Part 1 on my Dashboard or under the tag #blackgodsandgoddesses
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