• TommySoda@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Yes, keep making enemies of the billionaires that got this administration into office and spent millions of dollars to do so. I’d very much love that for you.

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      8 months ago

      Good thing this isn’t a country that came about because a bunch of rich white dudes got tired of being taxed and started a revolution.

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        8 months ago

        That’s possibly reframing “no taxation without representation” a bit but I don’t entirely disagree with the sentiment.

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                I really don’t understand the aggression, I was talking about the old rich dead people propaganda concerning no taxation without representation 200 years ago, I never said anything about the fuckwads we have today.

                If you think I’m saying something different, explain what you read and allow me the opportunity to clarify my intent.

                Saying I’m full of shit at this point is just asinine.

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      The billionaires have thus far been too cheap to amass private armies to directly enforce their own will. Why, when you can lobby Congress for the price of a used Hyundai Sonata to get the Army to do what you want?

      The government holds the power of violence and Trump holds the power of the government. The billionaires will be reminded of that if they get out of line. Coincidentally, this is the arrangement of modern Russia.

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        That’s the crazy part, unless they’re “outlawed” billionaires should try and improve people’s lives since it means they would have more money to spend on the crap those billionaires are selling! It’s hard to sell stuff on Amazon if everyone is struggling to afford housing and food.

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          Better to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven.

          They could work to remove the destitution and desperation of working people. But if their workers weren’t in such dire straits, then they wouldn’t have so much power over them. Workers with good pay and a healthy work-life balance also have more time to pursue unionization and other political activities. Even if improving the lives of the people would objectively increase the wealth of the ultra-rich, it would still decrease their power. And ultimately, the only reason people ever obtain that level of wealth is because they desire power more than anything else. People who aren’t power-hungry monsters cash out and retire early long before they reach billionaire status.

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      8 months ago

      In the article, Amazon already back peddled and said it was just in the idea phase and they never really planned on implementing it.

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      8 months ago

      That’s the thing that was always gonna happen. They were always gonna bring themselves and subsequently society down. It’s just the crit multi of Donald Trump a lot of people seemed not prepared for.