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Re:Goodbye, Twilio by Prickle on Monday June 19, 2023 @12:15AM (#36387272)
This "why don't you do it?" type of argument is probably the most common straw-man response to this topic.

The whole point, is to point out that some people have enough money to uplift hundreds of thousands out of poverty. Some have greater personal wealth than the GDP of an entire country, and that those people should either:

Give up some part of their wealth for the greater good.

Never be allowed to accumulate that much personal wealth in the first place.

The common person, like myself, doesn't have that kind of money. I cannot even afford a house for myself.

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Re:Goodbye, Twilio by andsoitis on Monday June 19, 2023 @12:34AM (#36387366)
> Give up some part of their wealth for the greater good.

And you think they don’t?

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Re:Goodbye, Twilio by Eisenstein on Monday June 19, 2023 @07:47AM (#36389918)
s/some/most
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Re:Goodbye, Twilio by Prickle on Monday June 19, 2023 @08:39PM (#36398274)
Governments have to give them tax breaks / tax write-offs in order to convince them to part with a small amount of their wealth.

So no. And especially so for the corporations they own.

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