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Few billionaires are direct causes of anyone dying. However, they’re always indirect causes of lots of people dying, by their own choice. Is there a valuable difference between shooting somebody and poisoning the food and water of 10 random people? Maybe. Maybe not. Ultimately, you’re choosing to take people’s lives, knowing the outcome. I don’t think people care about whether you’re a ‘direct’ cause, as much as they care about whether or not you’re a deliberate cause. All of us will probably cause some deaths as we go about our lives. But at no point do most of us make a decision to end someone’s life. Whereas billionaires do make the decisions, and they do it completely voluntarily, seeking profit. They often seem happy about the decisions too.