Ah yes, lobbying the government with monetary kickbacks is fair. Not paying local taxes and hiding in tax havens is fair.
Hell, mining blood diamonds is fair because the local authorities allow it, mining oil from under the impoverished residents of a corrupt country is fair, skirting monopoly laws to create conglomerates is fair.
Nothing is illegal for these guys, it all gets shoved under the rug. Remember the Panama papers? What came of those? Nothing.
So, if a billionaire behaves good, you leave her alone? No way, Jose. For me it is playing with cliches, it is as old as humans amass things and can stop showing up for work while you and me can not. And we look with envy at this kind of freedom, which we lack. And it produces the worst in us, anger and lust to strip her from her wealth. I guess, thats why envy has identified as a sin by religions.
(While others have identified religion as a way of avoidance, to not question the status quo. Ha!)
If I take over your country with guns and bloodshed, I suppose the wealth I gained from doing that is legitimate?
There is not a single billionaire who has made all that money fairly; wages do not rise with inflation, environment; tax dodge; etc costs are carried on to the consumer as well. What sort of world do we live in when people like you think it's okay for things to be like this.
I don't have a problem with people being successful and accumulating wealth, but I do have a problem with the ilegitimate and corrupt practices involved in accumulating billions and trillions.
Hell, mining blood diamonds is fair because the local authorities allow it, mining oil from under the impoverished residents of a corrupt country is fair, skirting monopoly laws to create conglomerates is fair.
Nothing is illegal for these guys, it all gets shoved under the rug. Remember the Panama papers? What came of those? Nothing.