This is patently, provably false — and laughably naive. It also completely ignores the authoritarian regimes which subjugate their people and keep them in a state of grinding poverty, decade after decade, and in omitting any mention of these regimes, you’re giving them a pass thereby.
"Show me a billionaire and I’ll show you a system they exploited and/or a vast inheritance."
Show me, please.
Oprah Winfrey.
Show me, please.
J.K. Rowling.
Show me, please.
You also somehow — and I don’t have any idea how— you somehow, I repeat, completely forgot to mention that you wrote this article on a computer, tablet, or phone created by billionaire wealth, from the comfort of a first-world place also largely created by billionaire wealth, and that you posted it on a platform and use social media platforms created and owned by billionaires:
Why on earth would anyone — and I do mean anyone, including Jessica "Wildfire," AOC, and you — support people whom you explicitly condemn as "stealing from the poor," as your title puts it, even while you use their platforms and support them in a multitude of different ways? Why? And how are the rest of us ever supposed to take this kind of thing seriously, when the hypocrisy hits such jaw-dropping heights?
“Therefore, there’s no such thing as a self-made billionaire.”
This popular grade-school logical fallacy is called a non-sequitur.
You’ve also conspicuously neglected to mention in your discussion of rare-earth minerals the staggering amounts of rare-earth minerals that all renewable energy requires — amounts that dwarf what's required for your computer, phone, or tablet, which you used to write this article denouncing the billionaire wealth that created the computers, phones, and tablets, that you’ve used to post upon platforms, created by the people you’re simultaneously denouncing. Why do you neglect to mention the rare-earth minerals that all renewables require, and why do you not discuss the appalling environmental degradation created by the mining of these rare-earth minerals?
Since you quote AOC, I’d also like to hear you discuss AOC's obscenely overpriced merchandise, as well as the overpriced accessories she sports in her photoshoots, which photoshoots were done with cameras and computers created by billionaire wealth, which you both hysterically condemn while nevertheless relying upon this wealth to write about people who don't "give a fuck," as you say, even while you continue to use their products hypocritically. I think you “don’t give a fuck.”
In addition to this and on a related note, you did not mention even a single time that it is people like you who voluntarily buy the products and use the platforms, which ultimately create the wealth you simultaneously denounce. “Under free-market conditions, it is the consumer and the consumer alone, who either will or will not purchase a product or service, that determines the success or failure of a business. It is in this sense that the consumer is driver and king, and the business-person must serve the potential customer, or go out of business,” wrote the Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises, and he is correct. People who purchase the goods and services being offered are ultimately who create the wealth. In using the platforms and the technology created by the people you decry as thieves and in buying the Harry Potter books and in tuning in to watch Oprah and so on, you, “Wildfire,” AOC, and all the other wealth-haters contribute to their billions. I ask you to let that sink in. It strikes me as a very paradoxical thing indeed. We all have our priorities, I suppose. “All billionaires are thieves,” you say, “nevertheless I really can’t do without my Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, iPhone, my television and computer, and all these other things, and neither can AOC.” Does this about sum it up?
Just incidentally, Marx's Exploitation Theory, which you like so many others accept without fully understanding, is built upon a completely bunked theory called the Labor Theory of Value. The Labor Theory of Value is Marxian and Neo-Marxian bedrock, despite the fact that it was arrantly, irrevocably demolished a very long time ago, beginning with the Austrian economist Eugen Ritter von Böhm-Bawerk and culminating in von Mises. Marx, following disastrously in the footsteps of Adam Smith, who made a grave error in accepting this theory, and Marx and the entirety of his so-called Conflict Doctrine crashed and burned long ago upon this theory. It is the smoke-and-mirrors upon which your worldview is built: a crumbling heap of dogma attempting to hold up a crumbled pile of worn-out Marxism.
