Also, this premise kind of sucks as a 'game'. Unless mom has experience with being hit on by her son, how would she have any inkling to identify which of the messages is his? 'Oh, that's my boy, I know he's into the massive tits', lol.
This is just 'let's make fun of men for being thirsty' thinly-veiled misandry, plenty of women have sent plenty of cringe DMs to men they've lusted after, too.
It's obviously completely performative, this is a very common move in US politics in general, I've noticed--introducing a bill they know is definitely not going to pass, but makes them look good to their base.
An asset appreciating in value does not deprive anyone else of money in their wallet.
If you bought a rookie baseball card for $5, the player had a great year and now the card's worth $100, your net worth increased by $95. But who is down $95 as a result of your card becoming more valuable?
Nobody. Wealth is not zero sum. And the vast majority of increases in wealth among the wealthiest is newly-created wealth. You literally can't become a billionaire in a human lifetime simply by short-changing your workers. A linear increase like that just will not get you there.
Also, wealth in the form of purchased investments into businesses that run within the economy, is literally the opposite of hoarding. If you buy things with your money, you're not hoarding your money.
Even if you could wave a magic wand and magically convert all that net worth straight across into that amount of cold hard cash, it wouldn't pay for a measly $10k UBI for all working-age Americans for more than two years.
Then what's the plan? That 10k costs over $2 trillion.
Let them know that they changed the term to "climate change" so that stupid people would understand that the Earth getting hotter on average will make some places colder, because ice that used to be staying put, will now melt into water, which will flow into places where there wasn't water before.
That's about as dumbed down an explanation as is possible, I think, lol.
The type of 'anger management' described in the OP is unhealthy and doesn't even help you feel better, short or long term. 'Blowing off steam'/venting literally does the opposite of what most people believe it does.
The issue with Billionaires now is that money isn’t in the economy.
Again, the baseball card growing in value by $95 took $95 away from no one. No one is deprived of cash in their wallet as a result of another person's purchase appreciating in value.
Also, their net worth is not cash sitting in a vault, it's investing into businesses that are running within the economy. It literally all is actively in the economy. You literally can't become a billionaire without doing that. Saying/implying that billionaires "hoard" wealth is deeply ignorant.
That seems obviously false, unless you’re proposing that all the charities in the world are scams and don’t actually do anything.
Charities do more than throw money at problems. This doesn't contradict my point at all, which is that money alone is not the answer--if it was, all of these problems would have been solved by now.
As a small example, you can't truly solve world hunger until you achieve world peace, and you can't buy peace.
The premise that merely having more than you need is inherently unethical is completely arbitrary, doubly so when only applied to those who have the most.
I live a fairly simple and frugal lifestyle. The amount of money where I am living at the standard of living ideal for me, and my "savings are enough to ride out life in comfort", is likely a much lower number than most others in the US.
Does that make me more ethical than those others? I don't believe so.
What happens when something already owned grows in value past the arbitrary maximum? Net worth is, after all, a function of how valuable everyone else thinks the stuff you own is. It's a price tag.
If you buy a rookie baseball card for $5, and the player has a great year and now your card is worth $100, did you deprive anyone of $95 by continuing to own it?
could solve a lot of world issues and still have enough money left over to not know what to do with it.
There is no world issue that can be solved by just throwing money at it. Those issues have had MUCH more money thrown at them than all of the net worth of all billionaires on Earth combined, without being solved.
The guy who founded Costco and was its CEO up until a few years ago is this, if not very close. A business lauded for both how it treated its workforce, and its customers. Basically no turnover unless someone retires.
I beg of the Dems to please stop the cope and start making moves.