• Nobody@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Their tax rate isn’t the real issue. The fact that they extract that much wealth out of the labor and production of others is the real problem.

    No human being should have a billion dollars. The workers who got you to your level of privilege and status should be paid based on their worth.

    A boss that pays fairly would never become a billionaire, and their workers would live good lives being paid the actual value of their labor. Increased demand from increased household discretionary income would create a boom on the supply side.

    But it will never happen, because billionaires own everything and will always manufacture consent. Democracy will die to thunderous applause.

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      6 months ago

      Us poors (the dumb ones, because education will be forever castrated) will clap for the billionaires and lay our thrift store hand-me-down jackets over the curb so they can cross a puddle in the street lest they get a drop of water on their 100k elephant skin boots. It’s coming to a head

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      6 months ago

      Although this is true, I’d like this graph on a billboard outside every polling location in November: