• Internetexplorer@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Insightful comments.

        Glad the propaganda isn’t affecting people.

        I thought people would jump on this anti billionaire post.

        But you’re right, it’s trying to incite class war.

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          What’s wrong with being anti-billionaire?

          If a dragon were hoarding all the gold in your village and leaving the villagers to get fucked, would you be pro-dragon?

          (Yeah it’s a Terry Pratchett novel.)

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          But your right, it’s trying to incite class war.

          Ah yes, it is well known that those fighting back against oppression are in fact the ones inciting war!

          Daddy Husk isn’t going to see you defending him and whisk you away to his castle dear, and you might actually choke if you suck that boot any harder, looks from here like the wannabe edgelord schtick isn’t really paying off… 🤣

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            Well actually I think it could be the Russians trying to destabilise Western culture.

            Or the government trying to distract people from them harvesting our money through taxes.

            Or just to upset people.

            You say people are fighting back, what exactly have they achieved?

            Other than telling people to go and suck on boots LOL

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          Horseshit. A few thousand billionaires doesn’t constitute a “class” in a world of billions of people. That’s not a matter of “class,” it’s a fucking oligarchy.

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            Wow you’re pretty angry.

            You should try to be happier, your hate is making you dumb

            It’s not that complicated

            It’s a rich Vs the poor trope.

            It’s trying to incite hate and disillusionment in society.

            Billionaires create many things millions use. Just because they have a lot of money didn’t make them intrinsically bad.

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              I do not hate billionaires for being billionaires. But I’m against a system that unjustly and inefficiently concentrates wealth in the hands of fewer and fewer people while basic necessities such as housing become unaffordable because the beneficiaries of that system are turning it into an investment through which extract more wealth from the people below themselves.

              Billionaires create many things millions use. Just because they have a lot of money didn’t make them intrinsically bad.

              To illustrate how bad this argument is. Middle Ages nobles made contributions to society in the form of collecting taxes, managing land and organizing armies. That doesn’t mean that feudalism isn’t a bollocks system nor that you shouldn’t come up with ways of collecting taxes, managing land and organizing armies that don’t incentivize privilege and corruption.

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                I agree that concentrated wealth isn’t an efficient distribution.

                So what can we do, 100% taxes over a million?

                What’s the incentive then to work harder if you earn over a million?

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                  Billionaires paying the same tax rate as high paying professionals is just fine. And no tax evasion using non-profit facades.

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                  If you’re are literally working so hard that you’re 100 times more productive than someone earning minimum wage, take a vacation. If you don’t want to, it’s clear that money isn’t what motivates you the most when you choose to continue working.

                  Of course, you must be really ignorant to believe that people earn 100 times more than someone earning minimum wage because they’re 100 times more productive. Your capacity to produce is not the same as your capacity to earn money.

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                    But that’s the point, you’re spray taking 100 types the risk when starting a business.

                    That’s what’s greenbelt not taken into account.

                    The start up costs, the risk involved, the investment capital.

                    The owners of the business hold all this risk so they should receive the reward as well.

                    50% of business don’t survive the first five years.

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      1. People say that because they don’t know what it feels like. Basically, they’re projecting

      2. Technically one can argue fairly that it doesn’t exist, but that argument would be about semantics. Doing something good for others at the expense of yourself either because it feels good to do, or because somewhere in your brain you think there will be good karma or a celestial reward, well… maybe those aren’t truly “altruism”, but can anybody tell the goddamned difference in the grand scheme of things?

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        This is why you have to make sure you’re depression is stronger than your nihilism. You’re “I don’t matter” needs to be bigger than your “nothing else matters”. Subscribe for more useful tips!