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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nice red herring. The argument was that demanding a billionaire give up all of their money and live on a relatively small salary is absurd, and nothing you said refutes that.

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Sounded to me like what they meant was basically as a friendlier option than death. What's absurd about it if you weren't saying it's too little to live on?