[Tenoke]

You need to be really blinded by cynism to not see how much better modern life is for average people or how many people benefit from advancements and scale which wouldn't be possible without billions of dollars worth of investments.

[willvarfar]

Is this accidental to the billionaires, or is this their intended outcome?

And could the investment come from alternative sources if the billionaires didn't exist?

[Tenoke]

>And could the investment come from alternative sources if the billionaires didn't exist?

In theory, sure. In practice, pretending that the current system has been making things worse or that we have a viable realistic and better alternative is flat-out wrong.

[kubb]

Is it OK to be content with how much better things are now than before we had modern dentistry and combustion engines, without questioning how entire macroeconomic phenomena contribute to our modern wellbeing? We improved, can we improve further?