Opinion of billionaires

[All Along The Watchtower]

No one should be worth a billion dollars, regardless of how much they "worked" for it (because let's be real, these people are rent-seekers who don't create wealth so much as steal redistribute it from the commons via their alarming ability to influence changes in tax policy to their own benefit, along with  deregulation, union-busting, the reduction of social welfare spending, the underpayment payment of workers, etc. - is it any coincidence that the number and wealth of billionaires around the world has dramatically increased since the (neo) liberalization of the economy and at the same time as the unprecedented explosion of economic inequality accompanied by declining social mobility?). If that makes me a Commie or whatever then so be it.

[All Along The Watchtower]

LEAVE BILLIONAIRES ALONE

[All Along The Watchtower]

What exactly justifies someone earning a billion dollars, anyway? Unless you don't think economics has a moral component that isn't "I've got mine, now f-ck off." In which case, I really don't know what to say, other than some cliches about how the American Cult of Individualism that sanctifies private property rights as the highest moral good is utterly corrosive to society, makes Baby Jesus cry, etc.