• kemsat@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    That’s besides the point. You have to be there so you don’t have enough time to achieve your hopes & dreams, ensuring you don’t build up any wealth, let alone generational wealth, and therefore can never challenge their dominance & authority.

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      1 year ago

      It’s highly unlikely that any of my dreams would make me wealthy, because they all involve having fun, improving myself, and/or making the world a better place. I think most other people are the same way.

    • andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun
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      1 year ago

      I’m pretty convinced these days that generational wealth as a goal leads to exactly this problem. Not that I disagree that we could be using that time in more fulfilling ways, but generational wealth as a construct probably inherently means significant inequality, unless it’s some utopian wealth where it’s equally shared.

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        1 year ago

        Indeed. The solution for the problems caused by nobility isn’t to make more nobles, even if that noble is oneself.

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        1 year ago

        There needs to be a cap of some kind. I don’t want my kids to end up like Musk where they’re fucking idiots with millions.