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Eat the rich.
Feed the poor 🎸🎶 Until there are, no rich no more 🎶
(The original starts with "Tax the rich" but you do what you can with what you got right?)
Are these the job creators I've heard so much about?
See? Trickle down economics really works! The wealthy trickle down $8 per day to their thankful employees for 18hr shifts! And don't you dare say it's slavery, you damn liberal! They're getting paid and free to leave at any time! Slaves don't get paid!
Yes
Firstly, who the fuck are they?
Secondly, you have the money, why can’t you just be reasonable? Like it’s not enough to rich, and not work and be happy, travel the world without limits and without a care… you somehow need to hurt people. It’s awful.
But how else will they get a bigger house? Nicer, larger yacht? More private jets?
Like, I kinda understand the "more more more!" mentality. As my income has gone up over the years, there's always something more my monkey brain tells me I should want. A nicer, more comfortable car. A new video card. Two angry ponies. You know how it is. I tell it to shut up because I have more than enough already.
I'm not a sociopath, though, so at no point has my monkey brain told me to enslave others so I can have nicer stuff.
Yeah but still, once I hit my "number", I'm taking my small slice of the pie and living life. There isn't a never ending drive to accumulate forever and ever. That's just these psychos
Why do the ponies have to be angry? Seems kind of uncharacteristic
Little Grandpa story time:
Ponies are generally nicer than horses, but I was raised believing ponies were angry, vicious little assholes. My father was bucked off of a pony in his twenties, causing him to break a rib and paralyze half of his diaphragm. Being the actual asshole in this story, he never stopped to think that maybe he was too heavy and too drunk for a pony, so he spread pony hate throughout his life. I want angry ponies as I dislike my father and on a primal level think they'd keep me safe from people like him, like two pissy, grass eating charms to protect against narcissists.
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Because they've got their fortune by being an absolute psychopath not having a second thought about walking over dead bodies for a penny. This is how anyone becomes rich, just throw all morals, compassion and legality to the wind. And they can't stop now.
SMH. Is it any surprise how they got to be rich?
Behind every great fortune is a great crime
Just one?
There are also some okay crimes
I'm not even kidding when I say it's getting to be pretty close to the time that we need to break out the guillotines and remind these people what happens if they get too sure of themselves.
It’s far past that time tbh.
It's always a good time to get out the guillotines
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Actual monsters. I know you don’t get this rich by being generous but god damn. Unless people like this do get jail time then nothing will change.
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They wouldn't even notice the money if they paid their staff properly. But people like that actually get off on the cruelty. I hope they throw those fuckers in jail.
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It's been found that wealth reduces compassion.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Four members of the UK's richest family are on trial in Switzerland amid allegations they spent more money caring for their dog than their servants.
It’s alleged that Prakash and Kamal Hinduja, together with their son Ajay and his wife Namrata, confiscated staff passports, paid them as little as $8 (£7) for 18-hour days, and allowed them little freedom to leave the house.
Although a financial settlement over exploitation was reached last week, the Hindujas remain on trial for trafficking, which is a serious criminal offence in Switzerland.
They deny the charges.This week in court, one of Geneva’s most famous prosecutors, Yves Bertossa, compared the almost $10,000 a year he claimed the family had spent on their dog, to the daily amount they were allegedly paying their servants.The Hinduja family's lawyers did not specifically deny the allegations of low wages, but said they must be viewed in context - noting that the staff were also receiving accommodation and food.
Mr Bertossa is calling for prison terms, and millions of dollars in compensation as well as legal fees.
It is not the first time that Geneva, a hub for international organisations as well as the world’s wealthy, has been in the spotlight over the alleged mistreatment of servants.
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So, they were housed and fed while working 18 hour days, thus not being able to leave the house. So that's their defence, that you have to take shelter into context. When they couldn't leave.... Fucking throw the book at them
Their defense is that they were literally using them as slaves by keeping them in slave quarters they can’t leave but we can’t call it forced slavery because they threw a couple euro coins in the cellar at the end of the day to call it wages
Does Switzerland have guillotines?
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Is the royal family not the richest in the UK? Edit: Not just me wondering this I see!
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Seriously, why do rich Criminals always come here and think they can get away with it just because they’re rich? We arrested the child of Gaddafi. The son of a literal fucking dictator in charge of Libya, a country that is fairly important in European politics.
If not even he got away with it, what makes you think you will?
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Hope these cunts get locked up but they won't, the laws dont seem to apply when you are that rich unfortunately. I wonder which politician they have donated to.
God bless the enlightened capitalism!! 🙏🙏
Baldy’s got that self-reflection look.
You don't get to that level of "rich" by having the capacity to self-reflect.
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