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In the course of my life I have happened to be friends with a few billionaires/members of billionaire families, and a number more in the 9-figure class. They are not substantially more shitty people than what you find at much lower net worths imo. Some are really well-intentioned. Also, some are just born into that wealth. Nonetheless, the inequality they are part of is destroying society. Also, sociopaths or even just selfish people empowered by that amount of wealth and surrounded by easily corrupted systems are very dangerous and harmful. So, I don't harbour hate for billionaires themselves just because they're billionaires, but the co-existence of such extreme wealth relative to the rest of humanity is a disaster that needs to be ended.
Holy shit, how come there's so many sane people? or is it that lemmy is actually less radical than reddit?
ok nvm, I just read some comments below and wow...
We have a nice trail mix of users from centre to left on the political spectrum. Frequently at odds with each other, but I personally appreciate the variety.
reddit has a ton of russian propaganda, and other propaganda machines egging people on. aside from tankies and conservatives, i think most of us came to Lemmy because we were banned for calling out/reporting some obvious ragebait, trolling.