They could just stop impeding progress and let the working class have things like healthcare and a living wage. Guess that's too much to ask and they would prefer guillotines?
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A healthy and educated working class is better at recognizing and confronting exploitation.
Keeping us down lets them rise to aristocracy.
Lmao that's because we shouldn't have billionaires
Yeah, we probably shouldn't have people who horde so much wealth it negatively affects the economy.
It's not that we shouldn't have billionaires. Its that we have billionaires when we have people living on the streets because the rent is so ridiculous. Its that we have people dying on the streets because they cannot afford health insurance. The gravy on the shit-fest is that billionaires are actively bribing the politicians to prevent those policies from being implemented. That is the textbook recipe for guillotines.
All of these are reasons why we shouldn't have billionaires, though.
I mean, I agree. It's very bad out there.
I think its more a "we shouldn't have billionaires right now" rather than a blanket prevention of billionaires. They are being a cancer on our politics in the bribery scheme we have from Citizens United in that they are paying politicians to prevent the American people from getting their basic needs met. The existence of billionaires isn't inherently wrong. Hell, if we ever figure out asteroid mining, there'd be quadrillionaires. But, its the psychotic system we have of having billionaires is by them bribe the politicians to deny the people their basic needs. At this point, such behavior is parasitic.
So what level of wealth inequality are you okay with?
If a Billionaire turned comic book EVIL and decided to go rogue.... What exactly would stop him. Most countries don't have the money or desire to do anything
yea you're watching that now
They are, already there, and have been for decades. How do you think they get all the money they do? One being private equity and market makers. Main street was destroyed in many countries to fuel them.
Yah I don’t think we should either.
He's right. Let's see if people could live off 999 million in assets.
A mere 999 million!?! You monsters want these people to starve in the streets...
Even the billionaires would be better off without billinaires. It their relative ranking was the same they would still have more money than they could spend but it would now come with clean air, water, land, better infrastructure, a healthier world, happier people to interact with.
What do the billionaires buy that pollutes nature that much?
The pollution comes from millions of cars, chemicals for products like clothing and intense agriculture so that everybody can eat some form of meat.
Billionaires allow us to feel helpless while we could agree with our neighbors to reduce the ecological footprint of society to a minimum.
Im not saying that. Its the wealth inequality that stunts society. People don't have the resources to make decisions based on whats best and have to deal with what they can afford. Lack of infrastructure and regulators results in more pollution.
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Here in the UK 78% of people support a 2% wealth tax on net assets worth more than £10 million yet our spineless neoliberal government is more focused on cutting disability benefits and bombing starving children.
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Billionaire says 'I don't think we should have Zohran Mamdani '
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This needs to become the mainstream opinion. Billionaires and ultra wealthy shouldn't exist. There is no trickling down or any of that stolen wealth coming back into the hands of average people.
Greed needs to be treated as an addiction just like alcoholism or gambling.
The rich can do it without civil or criminal consequence?
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