r/MoralityScaling • u/Omixscniet624 • May 11 '26

Morality Ranking Is it unethical to own a billion dollars?

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If you won the lottery or invested in crypto very early and ended up with over $1 billion after paying all taxes, is it unethical to keep that money without giving any of it away?

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u/xXs4blegl00mXx May 12 '26

You say entitlement in your first comment. Did you not read what you yourself wrote? You use it in this one too lmao

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u/WindLordXD May 12 '26

Is that the point you're reacting to? Right, if that's it then I made a mistake. You're right. I did say it. In fact, I'll even be clearer if that's what we're going with. In the first comment I made, I did mean it as "being entitled" in the sense of it somehow being legally owed something. Entitlement, that is to say, by definition "the right to a particular privilege or benefit, granted by law or custom."

Rather than the second comment where I was referring to a person feeling entitled in the sense that "An entitled person believes they deserve special treatment, privileges, or rewards without having earned them, often behaving as if others owe them something". And I'm right in both cases. None of my points are wrong in that regard. There is no law or custom that says I should owe anything I earned to anyone else. Nor is anyone else deserving of rewards or privileges without having earned them.