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  • WaxedWookie@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Billionaires are an active drain on society. They shouldn’t exist.

    • Their unchecked, unreasonable economic power buys political power that undermines democracy.

    • Their resources were snatched from the workers that did the productive labour, disincentivising them from that productive work.

    • The huge pools of comparatively idle capital act as a handbrake on the economy, whereas workers would stimulate the economy by spending that money.

    • The environmental impact of billionaires and things like their superyachts is absolutely incredible.

    …but we’ll fuck workers to the point that they can’t afford their own shelter to ensure that those billionaires can exist. Again, why?

    It’s very good to live in this country (…) because even the people with the lowest incomes here have more money than a middle-class person there.

    Again, you’re defending people being paid wages too low to afford their own shelter. Minimum fucking wage, my guy - because the billionaires will pay people as little as they can get away with - up to and including restoring slavery if given the opportunity.

    As for people fleeing one formerly fascist capitalist hellscape for another that’s sliding toward fascism? What’s this supposed to tell me?