"Nobody should have a billion dollars, and those who do are something other than fully human."
> “Money as a measure of value,” Marx tells us in Capital, “is the necessary > form of appearance of the measure of value which is immanent in commodities, > namely labour-time.” Money, then, is for Marx a form of sedimented time. But > if this is true, then having one billion dollars (or pounds, or whatever) > takes one completely beyond all human time. > One billion dollars is far, far more money than anyone could realistically > spend, on their needs, within the span of a human lifetime. If you have one > billion dollars, you are completely shielded from all ordinary human > concerns: Never again will you know hunger, or lack shelter, or suffer from > inadequate medical care. Of course, there may very well be lots of > comfortable, middle-class people who will also be lucky enough to never know > those wants again, but the difference is that the billionaire is isolated > even from the possibility of experiencing those wants. They are like the > Christian who has been saved from despair in Kierkegaard’s The Sickness Unto > Death, who is eliminating the possibility of despair at every moment. If you > have in your possession one billion dollars, then almost literally anything > you desire — anything anyone might possibly conceive of desiring — can be > yours, just as soon as you happen to desire it. But with no real friction > between desire and reality, how does wanting even function? Can someone who > lives like this even be said to know desire, anymore, at all? > And just as nobody can spend a billion dollars in their lifetime, nobody can > earn it either. People have taken to saying “every billionaire is a policy > failure”, because that sort of money makes nakedly obvious the truth Marx > tells us about all wealth accumulated under capitalism: that it’s part of a > process that is only possible because the people who own the means of > production are, effectively, stealing it from their employees," Reasons why you should kill a rich pig as soon as possible >> https://theoutline.com/post/8187/billionaires-are-not-people/ Rr Sent from my Androgyne dee-vice with K-9 Mail
