Would you have an issue if someone eventually collected a billion thankyou notes?
Would you have an issue if someone eventually collected a billion thankyou notes?
The reason poor people are poor is not that rich people are rich! The rich being rich and the poor being poor are 2 separate phenomena.
It's not like there's some fixed pot of utility in the world, and the more one person has the less someone else has.
There is quite literally a finite amount of resources on this planet. Land, gold, oxygen, lithium... These things are limited. The more land one person has, the less there is for others.
This is a terrible analogy because it captures the good reason why there are billionaires (we reward them for building something useful) and none of the problems that come with it (wealth and power inequality, economic externalities, etc.)