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u/Distinct-Funny717 16h ago
We don’t need social media influencers or ads for that matter
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u/tar4heels2fan 19h ago
This has to be the dumbest reasoning ive seen today.
Fact: nobody needs reddit.. cell phones.. alcohol.. washing machines.. dishwasher.. the list could go on endlessly
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u/IDrankLavaLamps 18h ago
As someone who works in waste management, please for the love of God don't take our washing machines.
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u/ResidentialPickle 22h ago edited 20h ago
According to reddit, all we really need is for hamburger flippers, and coffee servers to be paid enough to be able to afford a high rise apartment in any major city's downtown district just 3 minutes from their job, while eradicating straight white men and women
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u/realaccountissecret 21h ago
I used to work in a 24 hour diner breaking up hobo fights and could still afford a nice apartment in a major city without roommates…. Twenty years ago
Still straight though
Oh but yeah most people and bots commenting here are dumb as fuck, I agree with that haha
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u/Pedantic_Pict 17h ago
God, you people really love your cherry picking and straw men.
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u/TheGreatHon 22h ago
People before October 2026: I bet we will have flying cars in the future!
People after October 2026: nobody needs flying cars
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u/chunckymonkey86 18h ago
It’s who made the flying cars. If China made them first different people would be complaining.
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u/Suspicious_Sense1272 10h ago
“We need living forests,” “we need more housing!” “We need more books!” “We need more money!”
Yeah…. You can’t have living forests and want more houses, and paper products.
“Well we need more paperless processes!”
Okay that is far more expensive, guess will go mine cobalt.
“NO, that’s incredibly bad for the environment!”
Ffs.
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u/TokiVideogame 22h ago
you wanted shutdowns that made mom and pop shops close forever
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u/BigDaddyDumperSquad 22h ago
Food and water, huh? What, did your mom get too drunk and not make dinner again tonight? Sorry, Champ 🥀
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u/tsk5001 13h ago
Do people not realize that today is the best time to live in history in terms of resources?
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u/FatHaleyJoelOsment 11h ago
But don't you ever just yearn for a living forest? It's all I ever think about.
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u/Completely_Guitarded 10h ago
I do live in the forest.
All of this is one way:
I travel 30 min to get downtown, 15 min to get groceries, and about 45 min (sometimes an hour) to see my friends.
I don’t eat out at restaurants, I don’t do “coffee shops” I have an electric and central heat and air (didn’t have that going up), and septic tank… and a phone.
Internet is a little flaky.
If you want to live in the woods: do it.
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u/InformationOriginal7 13h ago
No one needs blue haired jobless losers ruining cities every time they don't agree with someone.
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u/dynamomark 21h ago
Why cant both circumstances exist? Just because someone is a billionaire doesn't make the others not attainable.
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u/randomredditacc25 21h ago
i dont get this post at all.
just reddits usual obsession with billionaires.
its the most obvious statement...but why should i care if billionaires exist exactly?
they dont effect my life in the slightest, and yes they do create jobs.
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u/Dark_halocraft 18h ago
How is reddit being obsessed with billionaires a surprise... How is ANYONE being obsessed with billionaires a surprise
They are literally the largest contributor with what's wrong with the world and you think people wouldn't pay them a little bit of attention?
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u/SorryCashOnly 22h ago
All of these things can coexist. They don’t have to be mutually exclusive.
Yes, flying cars may be impractical right now, but the technology developed in the process could still have useful applications elsewhere.
Yes, we may not need billionaires, but that doesn’t mean we should automatically punish someone for building a successful business and becoming one.
If you can’t understand the nuance here, STAY AWAY FROM POLITICS.
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u/Stegomaniac 13h ago
you will find that once we have the first multitrillionaire family, you have a default single family ruling the planet. If you find that societies need allow that to happen, just because there is nothing stopping them - well bend the knee.
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u/AbrasiveOpinion1 21h ago
Most people cant fathem basic nuance in day to day life, now you want them to understand the nuances of a subject they clearly dont understand.
Good luck my friend, good luck indeed
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u/juscallmejjay 20h ago
I think a billion is a ridiculous number that no one should be hoarding and anything over one billion should be taxed at 99 to 100%. It still allows all people to be as creative and successful as they like, still be ridiculously and absurdly wealthy, and all that taxed money can be used for real good.
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u/arawnamusly 16h ago
If that is the case then why would anyone want to do the work to become that rich?
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u/sillyvideogamestuff 19h ago
No one with money is hording it. It's typically tied to their companies theoretic value, or it's invested to help other companies grow.
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u/IudexJudy 14h ago
I feel like these people read networth as literal scrooge mcduck piles of gold coins in a vault and not the total sum if all assets
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u/VisualAnxiety2284 13h ago
They do. They also think Elon literally has a trillion dollars in cash in some bunker somewhere.
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u/sillyvideogamestuff 13h ago
Just as bad is they think global wealth is a static amount, and that a greater slice of the pie for Elon means less pie for them.
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u/silv3rbull8 21h ago
Nobody needs folding phones made by a 5 trillion dollar company either. But here we are.
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u/Sacojerico 22h ago
Can we somehow figure out how to use the forest to build some kind of structure
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u/DigBickDallad 6h ago
We want more of these things but let's invite an unlimited amount of immigrants
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u/ChestCold9192 21h ago
You dont need an expensive phone or computer or internet to survive. Yet here you are posting on stuff you paid for thats not water, food or forest.
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u/Velsier33 21h ago
Ya thats what i always find funny about this stuff, posting this from thier 2000 dollar iphone lol same with the unabomber manifesto on Amazon, saying how right it is even tho they're using the very thing its against to post the review
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u/Trail_by_error 21h ago
Reminder, flying cars aren't being paid for with taxes taken from your paycheck under the threat of violence.
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u/Free-Stage-5975 16h ago
This is what we call a non-sequitur.
Personally I think we do need billionaires because it shows the market is relatively free. Free markets tend to be significantly better at making everyone rich because people can actually make money in the country.
There are real problems in France, the UK, and a lot of Europe because taxes and bureaucracy are extremely high and oppressive. It's very difficult to become rich and people find it difficult to live on the money that they have because so much of it goes to the government. Ironically wealthy people end up paying enormous amounts of tax even if their overall tax rate is lower.
Water, food, and living standards tend to be better in wealthier societies. Wealthier societies can afford gas so we don't need to cut down all the forests in order to have heat.
To put it succinctly billionaires actually keep the forest nice, the water pure, and the food healthy because freedom generally improves everything.
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u/coast2coasted 10h ago
You need the free capital that billionaires have to invest in innovation. This is where nearly all of the nice things we have come from. You think there would be an iPhone, or most modern medicine, or an affordable car without huge investment into developing these things?
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u/Ok_Tonight_4311 15h ago
This was true maybe 25 years ago. Now Billionaires mostly just make everything worse.
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u/alinaaftercredit 21h ago
Funny how we have the technology to reach Mars but still debate whether everyone deserves clean water
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u/ThatsMrRandom 21h ago
Then why don't you go live in the forest in your communes? Oh that's right you love products the billionaires produce. You'll buy your iphones, moan on Reddit, eat fast food, put money in a bank, use Windows, buy a car, download Steam, drink Coke, buy a Samsung and watch your favorite shows on Netflix.
You're all hypocrites. But if rich people come together and put their money into progressing the human race beyond the 1400's you scream bloody murder.
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u/Real-Repair-1825 22h ago
Nah I want a flying car and a billion dollars
You can keep your forests and kumbaya vibes
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u/I-AM-A-GREY-ALIEN 22h ago
As a species, yes we need that. Personally I just need food, water, and a roof over my head for the rest of my life….as well as high-speed internet.
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u/TheNotSoEvilEngineer 21h ago
I'm willing to get rid of billionaires, but we have to get rid of the poor too. Prune both extreme sides of the bell curve.
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u/Nordeast24 22h ago
WAAAAAAHHHH is all that reddit does.
Improve you're fuckin situation dog.
That flying car was what every 90's kid imagined to be the coolest shit on earth. And then we get there, and people whine about billionaires..
Lmao save it, y'all sound as dumb as wood. Imagine a bunch of internet addicted dudes getting triggered by the Model T Ford and complaining they cant afford to trade in your horse for it.. it's hilarious. Most people laugh at posts like this, know that.
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u/LibertyLibertyBooya 20h ago
160,000 people work for Elon. He and his innovations fund a huge swath of American life.
How much prosperity has the OP created?
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u/Yop_BombNA 17h ago
Ocean is more important than the forests and we keep scrapping up and killing everything with dredge fishing cause we are stupid and awful.
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u/Ok_Tonight_4311 15h ago
Well what we need is irrelevant. We will get fake flying cars and more billionaires.
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u/RickyPondeif 13h ago
Get a job. Then plant some trees on the weekend.
No? Too much accountability??
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u/Rubysage3 21h ago edited 21h ago
We should go back to the old ways of making sacrifices to the volcano gods to appease nature.
It worked back then, it can work now. Two problems can be resolved if you toss the billionaires in. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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u/PutAdept9107 21h ago
Fact: It is not an either / or. Instead of pointing out that you are mad at a billionaire- do something to fix the problem(s).
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u/Debunkingdebunk 18h ago
What's going on? 2k upvotes and 200 comments roasting OP, that doesn't seem right?
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u/Sharp_Net3315 13h ago
You're just stupid, that's all. Technology progresses and things get better. Just shut up.
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u/Background-Spot-5068 21h ago
I need them to keep making my retirement accounts go up
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u/DefinatelyNotonDrugs 21h ago
Bold of you to assume the average redditor has any investments whatsoever. They just order doordash and blame capitalism that they are broke.
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u/proximusprimus57 22h ago
Anyone agreeing with this should do a quick inventory of what they own and see how much of it was made by a company headed by a billionaire.
Also, I have clean water, healthy food, and forests.
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u/Ok-Possibility-6284 21h ago
Ah yes the mythical billionaires that emerge from the aether and shit out an iphone. Do you know the amount of mathematics, scientists and societal advances were needed for any of that? The literal roads that paved the way for that good to even get to you? What is even the argument here?
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u/wraper 21h ago edited 13h ago
Scientists and mathematicians are all very necessary. The issue is they cannot magically poop out large-scale industries and mass production. It simply amazes me how some people think a bunch of random scientists, engineers, or whoever would pop out of nowhere by themselves and make things happen. No evil corporation needed, as it's just a tool for workforce exploitation.
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u/Ok-Possibility-6284 20h ago
People like Norman Ernest Borlaug literally saved billions from starving with his contributions to food production, and so did many other scientists that society often forgets. It takes a special kind of egomaniacal person to believe they deserve to extract so much from others work, scientist like norman know they only got so far because they stood on the shoulders of giants. So they share the wealth and don't become billionaires, yet billions prosper and live, Ill take that kind of society any day of the week over billionaires who pull up the ladder behind them and shoot down anyone encroaching on their massive hoard.
I would argue billionaires and soon to be trillionaires are the opposite of a functional society when contrasted with the level ofinequity on the other side. The climate collapse alone and it's true costs will erase whatever illusion in accelerated development and limitless growth you say was an advantage.
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u/Dry-Regret5444 11h ago
The world needs billionaires. Behind every great innovation that’s ever taken place in the world, there’s been a person or group of people responsible for it. They create things that make the world better and sell products and services that we all want. Most of these billionaires didn’t start off rich, so it also provides hope that getting to that place is possible for anyone if you have the right idea and possess the drive,ambition and work ethic to get there.
All this fake outrage. It’s nothing more than petty jealousy and projection of inadequacy.
They’re wealthy and your life sucks.
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u/Ok-Highlight-9598 10h ago
Literally. The way idiots want the world to work is for everyone to be on equal footing which decentivizes innovation and would lead to a boring life where no one is doing anything new or improving because they would get nothing for it.
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u/Dry-Regret5444 10h ago
It’s not reality. Name me a time in history when we had true equality across the population for an extended period of time. It’s never existed and it’ll never exist because humans by nature do not function that way.
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u/TestCyp999 21h ago
I want to explore space, I don't give a fuck about people who don't want to work.
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u/vmodha 20h ago
Who actually wants to actually team up as a society and achieve these things together? I’m in.
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u/Dependent_Pain7041 21h ago
It’s gonna be pure comedy to watch these kids grow up. We’re fucked more than we are now somehow
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u/notcranium 21h ago
If we are going off of needs versus wants, all of Reddit isn't a need, yet so many people want to spend so many hours here.
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u/Amat-Victoria-Curam 21h ago
Reminder: not every human being has the same priorities.
All humans are stupid.
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u/Emotional_Pay3658 19h ago
Yes you need it, but it’s nobodies obligation to provide it, especially for free.
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u/dangerdelw 18h ago
If you could provide a portion of all that to a billion people for $1 a piece, you’d be a billionaire.
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u/Socal_Cobra 18h ago
Nuh huh! You has one thing right and one thing wrong! Pick it out or you'll be sorry.
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u/-Wicked- 16h ago
Hear me out...what if we had flying cars to carry the billionaires away to their doom?
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u/Termidor0 14h ago
We don't need most of the things we have, but you aren't going to get anyone to get rid of their phone, car, internet etc. Because society has changed to be heavily reliant on them. And to be heavily reliant on things you don't need, is going to make some people rich
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u/Eagle_1776 13h ago
What are the odds OP posted a few months ago something along the lines of; We WeRe PrOmIsEd FlYiNg CaRs By NoW
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u/Single_Figure2334 12h ago
Then set up your own business, be extremely successful and you can donate your earnings as you see fit.
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u/401Nailhead 12h ago
Correct me if I'm wrong but electric cars (cleverly left out that part of the flying car) are to help with clean water, healthy food and forests to survive. You know, pollution and all.
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u/jefsch70 12h ago
My municiple water is filtered, checked by EPA standards and delivered to my home at .2 cents/gallon.
Healthy food is cheap. Potatoes are $4 / 5 lbs... Broccoli, clementines, bananas, chicken; CHEAP
There are more trees in New England (where I live) than there were in 1790.... Have you flown over the USA and looked down...
Do you live in the forest? Is it living?
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u/Monkberry77 12h ago
And houses. And cars. And decent wifi - er, make that free decent WiFi. And cheap coffee, beer, wine, etc. And and and. I love me a cool, clean glass of water and can spend days roaming lush forests, but if you “kill” off all the dreamers, all you’ll be left with is another elite still trying to tell you what to think, do, and say. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. As for me, I’ll take the dreamers.
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u/Wise_Temperature_322 12h ago
So the flying car is an electric car and the battery technology is leading the green energy revolution.
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u/SubtleAgar 12h ago
Phytoplankton be getting no love but will be the lynch pin for our entire ecosystems collapse.
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u/Panic_Otaku 11h ago
Oh...
You don't need cars, Internet, books, clothes, electricity, heat, housing and etc.
Dude... You are a GOAT...
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u/tampawn 11h ago
We need him a LOT more than whining complainers. He's paid billions in taxes, kept tens of thousands of his employees' families fed housed educated and connected, and he's provided internet to hundreds of millions where they didn't have it before.
Your statement is the ultimate example for "Winners focus on winning, and losers focus on winners"
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u/Unable_Ad6406 11h ago
Wrong, I need a flying car. So you would be happy riding in a horse and buggy.
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u/Middle-Fuel-6402 11h ago
Yeah, and especially when the billionaire making flying cars is mean to trans people
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u/Cat_9719 11h ago
This statement is ridiculous. You could relate that saying to any group of people. We also need much more than the listed items. Poorly trying to make a liberal point.
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u/sebastianericson88 10h ago
You already have all of that and 98% of u are overweight and don’t go outside
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u/kpppeyton 10h ago
Same thing we’ve needed since we crawled out of the primordial sludge. It’s less about what we need and more about what creates hope and wonder!
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u/Lego_Architect 10h ago
Living is not the same as surviving.
Humanity has long been living and not surviving for thousands of years.
Living is how we get society and civilization. And all the cool advancements.
Surviving is how we get god kings and authoritarian rule. And living day to day.
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u/Effective_Record5393 9h ago
Or just stay in your own lane and don’t worry what other people invest there time,money and resources in.
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