The Role of Leadership in Wealth Creation in American Companies
As interesting as it is, the fact that some people become billionaires has nothing to do with making society better.Some things that people do in society are done so that they can make money. Their success changes a lot.
But because of a millionaire there isn't a single thing that helps society
Whatever good things we think billionaires have done would be just as important if people like Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Elon Musk, and others had only become millionaires...that they had become very rich, or even just very wealthy to the tune of several hundred thousand dollars.There is nothing that billionaires do for society that makes them deserving of being as rich as they are.The current economic situation that makes billionaires possible is due to economic policies put in place by Reagan that are still affecting us today. In particular, the terrible idea of lowering taxes on the wealthy and businesses because people think that will make the economy grow. Instead, more wealth was given to people who were already wealthy by taking it away from the rest of us over the course of forty years of economic stupidity.In real life, the policies that led to the creation of the wealthy class and the huge increase in wealth are directly to blame for the drop in the standard of living of the Working Class. These policies are also to blame for our crumbling infrastructure, failing public schools, and pay that have stayed the same for workers for 40 years. All of these things have been bad for society as a whole.Because of this, it is totally reasonable to say that billionaires not only don't help the economy, but their very existence hurts our country a lot.
Twenty percent of children in the US live in poverty so that a few hundred people can be very rich
That being said, before everyone starts screaming in shock and getting into a heated argument about philanthropists and their good acts, let me start by saying that this is not about any specific billionaires. I'm not criticizing Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, George Soros, or the late Steve Jobs. What bothers me is a system that gives people ridiculous amounts of money and then lets them try to change the world based only on their own beliefs, without any democratic oversight.Now, organizations run by people like Bill Gates and George Soros do a lot of great work (ah! Soros was on the list for a reason, though. Can anyone guess what it is? "Good work" means different things to different people. For some, it's building a kingdom. Rich people make the rules in our world because they have more money. That's not right.So, I don't have a problem with billionaires. I have a problem with the capitalism system that gives billionaires a lot of money and power. They do some nice things. Even though some billionaires are good people, they hurt democracy.A billion dollars is too much money for anyone to ever need or spend in their whole life. That kind of money can't come from work. After a certain point, money is just political and social power; it gives rich people the power to do things that poor people will never have. The poor only have power through democracy and working together, but millionaires get around that by not caring about what people want or need and just giving the world what THEY think it needs.This is risky because some billionaires have crazy, bad ideas.
Some wealthy work against what's best for everyone
They have to push their own agenda, even the good ones, because money makes their opinion louder than the rest of the world's wealthy people.To sum up, the world would be better off without billionaires. I believe it's not a big deal if some people have a little extra money as long as it doesn't give anyone power and everyone is generally wealthy. No one will mind if a few people get "richer" if everyone else is "rich," especially if they get rich in an honest way. But it is wrong to live in a society where everyone is "rich."The thing about elephants is that they are so big and the little ants are so small and hard to see that even the most careful elephants accidentally crush a bunch of "little people." Nobody can change the fact that billionaires are bad for society, not even those who mean well.He lives in a political bubble and thinks that what's good for the rich is good for everyone else. To inform him of this, the leaders of the party are ready to hit him. They will say they won't vote for him again, and if he doesn't get re-elected, how can he help the people who vote for him? Real power can only be gained by being re-elected many times and slowly moving up in the ranks.
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