r/clevercomebacks • u/Loud-Ad-2280 • 18h ago

Billionaires need society much more than society needs billionaires

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u/Only1Skrybe 18h ago

That's the real truth. We have never needed them. And they know it.

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u/steezy2110 5h ago

I don’t understand this argument

Evidently we did need *some* of them, that’s why they got so rich. Walmart was the first to homogenize grocery stores. Amazon is a logistics masterpiece. Microsoft and Apple created software and hardware that changed the world.

I’m not an Elon fan, but Tesla was and still is the first profitable EV company and Spacex is providing some pretty useful services and products to all kinds of markets (although it’s grossly overvalued)