All Billionaires Are Evil

My Thoughts on Billionaires 

All billionaires ARE evil. For me, there’s a certain responsibility when it comes to being a human. We are are all one family. We are all related. We are all connected. We should all help each other. Billionaires on the other hand, represent the opposite. They are the elite. They represent isolation, separation, and exclusion. They use their positions of power to coerce us into fighting their wars for us. To con us into donating our money to charities instead of using theirs. To enchant us with the idea that we can separate from society and live in isolated luxury just like they do. They are like the dragons of myth sitting on piles of gold while the rest of the village suffers their wrath. It is evil and I am not going to play their stupid game anymore. I am taking a stand and calling them out.

 

This is not an anti-capitalist page. If you are well-to-do, worked hard, and have a net worth in excess of the average person, that’s fantastic. If you’re like Mick Jagger and have a net worth of $500 million, I’m excited for you. The world would be a better place if more people were well off. My focus is on those who have crossed the line into obscene wealth. This is about the action of possessing and controlling vast sums of money and using that power to continue exploiting and plundering in the pursuit of more. That activity is what this site is about.

 

Every billion dollars owned and controlled by a single individual is the equivalent of $1,000 removed from the pockets of 1 million people. Now, multiply that by the sheer volume of billionaires that have spawned over the past few decades. Think about that. This is money that has effectively been removed from circulation. Money is power, money is energy, it is the method which enables the flow of materials in our economies. It is like a river that flows and feeds the lands along its banks. Stockpiling cash is the equivalent of damming that river. And the speed with which we are producing billionaires these days is forcing the rest of us into conditions of drought and scarcity. This activity is counter productive to a healthy planet and healthy civilization.
  
One argument that I hear is that billionaires deserve their wealth. They have spent time and energy, or have a vision that qualifies them to be deserving of their money. But I want to step back a bit. No one is born a billionaire. No one is handed a billion or more dollars unless they were an extremely lucky lottery winner. It just doesn’t happen. It takes a network of thousands of people to produce a billion dollars. If someone builds a company that propels an individual to that level of wealth, they did not do it on their own. They did it through the talents and abilities of the people beneath them that they controlled. If you own a company that produces billions of dollars of revenue, and there is that kind of excess that spawns a billionaire, the employees are underpaid. Those employees are not being compensated appropriately for their contributions. End of story. If an employee contributes a million dollars of value to a company and is not being paid a huge portion of that, that employee is being stolen from. It’s plain and simple. But in our society today, that employee probably got a nice plaque, pizza party or a cool watch. Is that fair compensation? No. It is a swindle, it is a con job of heinous proportions.
 
Another justification is that billionaires help people, that they use their positions of wealth to do great good. That my friend, is merely PR. If you possess billions of dollars and contribute millions to a charity, it sounds good. It does. But do the math. A million dollars is .001% of a billion dollars. It’s a drop in the bucket. A drop, one single drop. Instead of actually spending their hoard of cash to help others, they use their money as a status symbol to influence others to do it for them instead. If you want, look into these charitable foundations that billionaires set up. Look at the staff employed by these foundations. Look at the salaries these employees make and look at how much money is actually going to the cause that it claims to support. Is it a real charity? Does it really help people, or is it merely a “good ol’ boys club” type shell game designed to help their inner circle of friends? I think you’ll be surprised.
 
Billionaires posses a lot of power and influence. And we are so afraid of offending billionaires that we just allow them to continue, even though they perform no real function. We sit around and secretly hope that they’ll include us in their secret circles. We hope to become billionaires ourselves someday and enjoy the freedoms and luxuries that they do. But they are vampires, they feed off the lifeblood of society while selling us a dream and so we turn a blind eye. It’s time that we start calling them out on their bad behavior. Maybe they’ll realize and change. Maybe they’ll rethink what it is that they’re doing to the rest of us. Maybe they’ll invest their money into helping society instead of feeding off of us. And then again maybe not, but I am hopeful that they can be redeemed. We need to remind them. We need to wake them up.

 

Do you have a billion dollars? If the answer is no, then what I think shouldn't offend you. But I can hear some of you right now arguing with me at your screens “but billionaires help people, they’re philanthropists who support charities, they create jobs…” They've told you all kinds of stories and given you multiple rationalizations to get you on their side. But I don’t believe them because history proves otherwise. Billionaires consolidate wealth and discard employees that they consider unecessary expenses. You've all seen what happens when one corporation absorbs another, it always results in job losses. Have you been laid off in a corporate restructure? If you're old enough it's quite likely that you have.

 

Maybe you imagine yourself becoming a billionaire someday. Are you there yet? Your job would have to pay you over $48,000 per hour for 10 years to get you there. I think that asking any company to pay anyone that kind of salary is ludicrous. Yet it's common in our society. Many billionaires make even more money much faster than that.

 

If you do have a billion or more dollars, then I’m going to ask you a few more questions. What exactly are you doing with that money? Why are you hoarding it? Are you simply safeguarding it and waiting for that one day when you might need it? Or is it merely a status symbol to prove to yourself that you have value? Is there another way that you could see your value instead? Are you using it as a way to purchase people’s opinions so that you will not be held accountable for your other actions? Is your wealth just leverage for even more control? Do you enjoy being perceived as an over the top out-of-control control freak? What are your goals? Where does it end? Or do you see yourself as someone who will be producing something that will benefit mankind eventually? You’ve got incredible potential with that kind of resource, but the rest of the world is dying while you figure it out. The time for greed is over. We need you. You have value.

 

However, if you are a billionaire with a real plan to help humanity and are working that plan, then by all means carry on. Hopefully you took my questions to heart and are working your plan expeditiously. I will even help you if you want. I don't want your money, but I do want to see you use it because you have real power to make the world better.
 
Anyway, this is my pledge. 75% of the profits of the sale of shirts and hoodies are going to directly to local charities. Charities like local food banks and homeless shelters that are not controlled by CEOs and boards of directors who make high 6 or 7 figure salaries off the donors (like the countless charities and foundations of billionaires).
 
Now, I seriously doubt that these shirts will ever be popular enough to make me a billionaire. And to be honest, I think I will probably only sell a few dozen shirts. But I didn’t create this site to make money. I made this site to express my thoughts and maybe inspire some people. Time has shown us over and over that looking outside ourselves for someone to rescue us is futile, we have to do it ourselves. Billionaires are welcome to join us, but it remains to be seen if any of them will. In the meantime we will have to take a stand on our own. We have to decide as individuals that we are not going to play their stupid games of scarcity and control which only leads to social unrest, wars, separation, division, and hatred. Let’s build a better world and let’s start now. Peacefully and without violence.

 

And if you don't agree with me, you're welcome to not buy a shirt. It's just that simple. I'm not forcing this on anyone. This isn't a manifesto.

 

 

This next part is for the Christians out there. I put it at the end for those of you who are not Christians, although you are still welcome to read this part. Jesus gave us two new commandments. It appears 3 times in the New Testament in Matthew 22:36–39, Mark 12:30–31, and Luke 10:27. It is almost word for word the same in each book:

 

“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ - Matthew 22:36-39.

 

You may already be living and expressing these commandments in your life, but ask yourself a question - are billionaires doing this? Is their world of isolation and luxury actually loving God with all of their hearts and their neighbors as themselves? These are Jesus’ own words. His commandments. Shouldn’t we call billionaires out on this? Don’t you think that it’s time that we starting acting like Christians and holding them accountable like Jesus did?

 

Thank you for reading.

 

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