alt Hacker News> Painting all billionaires as the problem
Strongly encourage you to learn about their favorite money making concepts of passive income and compound interest. And other various "financial engineering" techniques corporations are engaging in.
These guys make more money taking a dump than 1000 US workers doing hard labor. I'm sure they are like 1000x more genius that most people but I doubt you could make an argument where a system that rewards this sort of behavior, while contributing absolutely 0 net value to society can also coexist in harmony with the rest of us.
When the most efficient methods of accruing wealth are literally predicated on profiting from doing nothing, they are not the signs of a healthy society.
I’d encourage you to do some research on the history of charging interest. It does indeed make for a large wealth gap and that is indeed a significant social problem.
However it isn’t a problem limited to capitalism or the US. And “billionaires” have been around for quite a long time - I find it strange that some are placed on a pedestal for some reason