As a person who very much believes that billionaires should exist, I'm very curious to hear the answers to these four questions.
If there is anyone in this forum who believes that billionaires should not exist, please answer the four questions.
By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill) October 24, 2025 Bernie Sanders said: “Billionaires should not exist.” Source: Zohran Mamdani said: “I don’t think that we should have billionaires.” So…
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I have four questions for Bernie Sanders, Zohran Mamdani, and anyone else who believes thatbillionaires should not exist
Bernie Sanders said:
“Billionaires should notexist.”
Source:
Zohran Mamdani said:
“I don’t think that weshould have billionaires.”
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I have four questions for Sanders, Mamdani, and anyone else whobelieves that billionaires should not exist.
But first, I’d like to present some background informationbefore I ask those four questions.
Aluminum used to be so expensive that it was considered a preciousmetal. When they built the Washington Monument, they put a 20 poundpiece of aluminum at the top. At the time, it was the biggest pieceof refined aluminum in the world.
Since then, some greedy capitalists figured out how to makealuminum so cheap that today, people throw aluminum foil into thegarbage.
Those greedy capitalists became billionaires because of what theydid.
And we are all better off as a result.
Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall%E2%80%93H%C3%A9roult_process
The same thing is true for the people who created LEGO, HarryPotter, and so many other things. Those people became billionaires.And they did so by making other people better off.
Wikipedia has a list of billionaires per country. I clicked twiceon the part where it says “rate,” so it would show the number ofbillionaires per capita in each country. Here is a screenshot of thisthat shows which countries have the highest number of billionairesper capita. This is only part of the list. The total number ofcountries that have billionaires is a lot longer, and you can readthe complete list at the link.
Source:
List of countries by number of billionaires - Wikipedia
The thing that I find most interesting about that screenshot is that it shows that Sweden actually has more billionaires, per capita,than the United States.
If you go to the link and read the entire list, you will see that there are certain countries that are not on the list, because theydon’t allow people to become billionaires. North Korea and Cuba aretwo of these countries.
Regarding the countries that don’t allow people to become billionaires, immigration patterns prove that no one wants to live inthose countries. All of the immigration regarding those countries isout of those countries. No one moves into those countries.
Now that I have presented this background information, here are my four questions for Bernie Sanders, Zohran Mamdani, and anyone else who believes that billionaires should not exist:
1) Would you rather be a middle class person today, or the richest person in the world 200 years ago?
2) Based on that wikipedia list, would you rather live in a real world country that has lots billionaires, or in a real world country where it’s impossible for people to become billionaires?
3) Why do you think it’s a bad thing that the creator of Harry Potter became a billionaire?
4) What do you think of the fact that Sweden has more billionaires, per capita, than the U.S.?
