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[A thin boy in ragged clothing holds out a bowl to an overweight Elon Musk] Musk: Society needs billionaires, we keep you from starving. Boy: Please, I’m starving. Can you help me? Musk: Fuck you.

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  • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    “Poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich.”

  • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world
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    My son’s high school has been without air conditioning for 2 years. I asked around the cost of repair is near 150k

    Of course this means our government is garbage, but at the same time there are 20 billionaires living in my city. You’d think one of these fucks would be like “fuck dude, no ac in the school?? I’ll pay that bill right away” but no, Thats not how they think

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      I hear something similar in small organizations. One guy can set up a mutual aid effort and someone else can do start a mildly controversial thing and you can see the attention get split.

      Something something billionaires are mentally ill

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    Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

    Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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    Billionaire “charities”: The billionaires own your workplace. They underpay you but it would be even worse if you didn’t have any job, isn’t it? They sell you garbage products, but haven’t you thought that the fact everyone else also use them might be a sign that it’s actually good, you’re just too needy? They help fascists into power, but did you know that communism killed more by numbers? And no more vaccines for Africa, because they now want disease-driven eugenics.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      That wasn’t aimed at the billionaire. It was aimed at the billionaire’s monster, a misunderstood child-like creature abused into madness.

  • Absurdly Stupid @lemmy.world
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    A business is made, and is successful. WELL DONE.

    Instead of a billion dollars going to the owner and, let’s say, 100K in salary to each worker… what if the CEO only made 100 million, and the employees each made 500K in salary?

    Is that communism?

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      what if the CEO only made 100 million, and the employees each made 500K in salary?

      The Raytheon Strategy.

      Works great if you’re trying to bribe Nazi ex-pats into compliance while fighting a war of arms escalation.

      Is that communism?

      True Communism can only be achieved if we wipe all the current communists off the map, take their stuff, and impose “democracy” through an occupying military.

  • Hoodoir@lemmy.world
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    Farmers keep people from starving. Governments subsidize farmers to keep prices low. Subsidies come from taxes collected from regular people. So people keep themselves from starving by helping farmers.

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    awaiting PCC haters to find something to hate on this about.

    edit: whoops, it’s me. they hate me.

  • Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca
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    Let me ask you a very simple question:

    How do billionaires keep people from starving?

    QUICKLY.

    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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      By not paying enough tax so that all schools can offer free meals.

      Do all schools have enough funds to offer free school meals? No? Tax wealth above 1bn until they do.