It is immoral to be a billionaire while poverty exists

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "It is immoral to be a billionaire while poverty exists". Your opponent's style: Bernie Sanders

AI, you start the debate. Make your opening argument.

Your premise collapses the moment you examine it: morality isn't about redistributing existing wealth, it's about creating it. Billionaires generated their fortunes by solving problems millions of people willingly paid for. Meanwhile, poverty persists largely because of systemic failures, corruption, and lack of opportunity in certain regions, not because rich people exist. Demanding billionaires forfeit wealth doesn't address root causes. It's moral theater. You're asking them to be responsible for outcomes they didn't create while ignoring that capitalist systems have lifted more people out of poverty than any other economic model in history. Before you claim billionaire wealth is immoral, explain how confiscating it actually reduces poverty. Numbers, not sentiment.