Should billionaires exist?
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@evan No, but if they were some comical vehicle for actual redistribution of wealth, like an extravagant "grand seigneur" that goes around the villages and "generously" offers arbitrary people money, but in fact is forced to do so by the culture itself and in reality is the poorest person out there (because he can't keep any of the billions for himself, the wealth just flows through him because he is so compulsively generous), then I don't mind. A bit of cultural weirdness is good.
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@evan No, but if they were some comical vehicle for actual redistribution of wealth, like an extravagant "grand seigneur" that goes around the villages and "generously" offers arbitrary people money, but in fact is forced to do so by the culture itself and in reality is the poorest person out there (because he can't keep any of the billions for himself, the wealth just flows through him because he is so compulsively generous), then I don't mind. A bit of cultural weirdness is good.
@evan I'm reminded of the tribal chiefs in tupi-guarani people as described by Pierre Clastres where the chief was often the poorest person in society, because while a lot of material goods often accumulated on the chief, he was also the only one who could not deny requests on his belongings. So society was constantly robbing him, which made his riches very fleeting indeed. If there was a "billionaire" version of that, I would actually like to see it.
