• Wilco@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    He is right.

    Imagine a “billionaire” in the wild: An animal sitting on a vast horde of food that it could never eat while others starved around it … yea, it would not last long.

    Imagine a “billionaire” in a living body. A corporate money making entity would basically be a cancer that had to be removed to save the life of the patient.

  • Fives@discuss.online
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    1 year ago

    The super-wealthy are a cancer on society, and just like cancer, they suck up all of the resources while killing the patient.

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    5 months ago

    I heard a rumor once that something called ‘greed’ was considered a sin.

    There might be others that are relevant too.

    These ‘sins’ and their opposing ‘virtures’ where considered such because of how they effected the communities influenced by them.

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    1 year ago

    I worry the billionaires will send assassins after him. It would cost them so much less than what he’s suggesting.

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    1 year ago

    Bill Ackman, a billionaire hedge fund manager who has backed President Donald Trump in the past, on Thursday pledged to use his money to bankroll a challenger to Mamdani in the general election.

    Case in point.

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      1 year ago

      And how did he get those billions? How many peoples necks did he have to step on to climb his way up. It’s not so much what you do with your billions, it’s how you got them that makes you evil. The only exception to this is probably Bezos ex wife, maybe.

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    1 year ago

    I’m not against people having money, but to have a thousand times more than most people can make in their entire lifetime is just taking it too far. There should be a cap after which you pay 90% tax or something

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      1 year ago

      Check the progressive taxation we had in the US after WW2 when, barring the racism/sexism/otherisms, the US actually thrived and single income families could manage being middle class, and owning a nice home. Reagan fucked us, but if it hadn’t been him it would have been another terrible regressive.

      All these conservative lapdogs continue to fuck us all with their single issue voting and sticking it to the libs.

      I’m pretty judgy right now so imo anybody voting for GOP candidates in the US is either gullible, brainwashed, semi/fully mentally deficient, or is so racist or scared of other people’s peepees that they will vote against their own best interests.

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        1 year ago

        I’m pro LGBTQ, anti-israel, against consumerism/capitalism, pro socialism. Pro government control on key infrastructure (water, gas, electricity) and better housing and support services. Pro climate policies, pro taxing the rich.

        But I’m also against fossil fuel bans, against bans on firearms, pro military for defence, pro free-speech, pro strict immigration, against ‘PC’ culture, against trans-women in women’s sports, pro merit success.

        Am I left or right? …Or centrist?

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          2 months ago

          You are a National Socialist. Your kind joined the Nazis as street thugs, and were very useful until shortly before the Night of the Long Knives, when your demands for the socialist part of the platform would have seen you killed or otherwise purged.