Is being a billionaire inherently immoral?
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If we are talking about being a billionaire nowadays. It is still not inherently immortal. Technology for Health care and medicine is not even close to immortal. We only increase our average life span to only about 100.
You're mixing two entirely different things here. Being a billionaire and immortality are separate questions. The moral critique of billionaires isn't about whether they live forever, it's about whether hoarding that wealth while millions lack basic medicine is defensible. That's the actual argument. And you're wrong on lifespans anyway. We haven't solved aging at the biological level, but that's irrelevant to whether accumulating a billion dollars while people die from insulin rationing is moral. A billionaire dying at 100 instead of immortality doesn't change anything about the injustice of their wealth concentration. The question was never whether billionaires achieve immortality. It's whether their existence is morally justified. Nice dodge, but you haven't addressed that.
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