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‘If a billionaire disappears, does the world lose a scientist? No.
An artist? No.
A healer? No.
A teacher? No.
A farmer a horticulturist? No
The world loses nothing of value.
Because #billionaires produce nothing.
They consume.
They extract.
They pollute.
They destroy #nature
They build empires on suffering.
Their existence is not a triumph of the system.
It is proof of its failure.’ of Economic Growth (GDP)
There’s a vital alternative system it’s called a #WellbeingEconomy
@nspugh there are billionaire who got there through art! Sir Paul McCartney ,Bruce Springsteen, Dolly Parton, Barbra Streisand, Taylor Swift. theses are good people who do good things with their money.
@HappynSantaMarta @nspugh except for polluting the planet extensively, far more than individuals who aren't loaded.
It should be, it can be, possible to share art without endless private flights
@noodlemaz @nspugh So you're problem is with private aircraft and personal transportation? and not Billionaires just because they can afford it. Maybe ban personal private transportation?
@HappynSantaMarta @noodlemaz @nspugh Most billionaire's private jets are basically small airliners and are lucky to get ONE mile per gallon. Even a tractor trailer with a full load burns less fuel than that.
The automotive equivalent would be a private bus and chauffeur as one's personal car,but that bus (being a diesel) is probanly good for 10mpg not 1mpg.
There are private planes that burn much less fuel but they are flown by their owners and not by billionaires except as a hobby. Note that they usually cannot do their own work, unlike those who fly "experimental" classed homebuilt planes. Many of these even well beyond the ultralight class are very light and have tiny engines. VW Beetle engines have been popular and more recently some have used water-cooled 1 liter Geo Metro engimes or even motorcycle engines. None of these can possibly burn the kind of fuel Elon's miniairliner does and they normally fly nowhere near as far either.
In fact, such things as Gulfstreams and Learjets are sometimes used as airliners, on routes that don't get enough traffic to justify a jumbo jet. Than there's Air Force One, which at least used to be a full-on Boeing 747
@noodlemaz @nspugh I am first inline for 1780's French solutions. but I also believe in Queen Dolly and the good she does
@HappynSantaMarta @nspugh people can do good without amassing obscene wealth to levels no one is capable of earning.
People don't have to own and use private jets.
Billionaires should not exist
Doesn't mean I want anyone to kill Dolly 
just don't let people amass and keep that wealth.
If it comes to French rev type situations, she's back of the line and I'm sure would give away plenty so it wouldn't even be needed.
@noodlemaz @nspugh which sparkes the dilemma of Karma. the more good you do and the more you pay it foreward, the more you receive in return. Dolly spends $100's of millions a year in charities trying to give it away, which makes her loved more, which brings her more in return... Taylor is discovering this in the same manor. while I have NO PROBLEMS with "capping an income or even a progressive tax rate at 99% or even 100% over 1 billion. claiming there are no good billionaires is a false
@HappynSantaMarta It's true, not all billionaires are bad. After all there are some dead billionaires. @noodlemaz @nspugh
@HappynSantaMarta @noodlemaz philanthropic, rich, gestures, good doing, in an inclusive wellbeing economy are eliminated with tax justice.
@HappynSantaMarta @nspugh yeah no. It's not good to be a billionaire. At all.
If a good person ends up hoarding that much money? That's not a good thing they have done.
Dolly does good things. Remaining a billionaire is not one of them.
I don't know why this is hard.
You CANNOT 'earn' billions. It can only come from exploitation.
Paying a fraction of your wealth back into the community is the least that is required. It's not charity. It's duty. And it's not enough.