• malin@thelemmy.club
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    7 hours ago

    I’m glad they’re coming for your assets.

    You have more than enough and should not receive even more while others have less, just like the billionaires you’re criticizing.

    Edit: All the people getting mad at this reality are the reason why we have to choose between clintons and trumps. As soon as someone threatens the wealth of neo-liberals, they immediately agree with conservatives.

    Greed and consumerism are the worst issues we face as a species. It makes sense most of you will react the way that you do when being forced to acknowledge your contribution to the problem.

    Now, who’s excited for the switch 2 and gta 6?

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      And I suppose you live in a yurt off-grid, and don’t own a mobile device?

      Thought so, hypocrite. Fuck Trump.

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        No, just live at or below a standard that is attainable for us all.

        Thought so, hypocrite.

        Sad watching you be so sure of yourself while also being clueless.

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      There’s a massive difference between well-off, or even wealthy (think a practicing doctor/dentist or small business entrepeneur) and billionaire.

      Saying ‘screw your savings’ to people like that is the conflict the billionare class wants, instead of everyone focusing on them.

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        Completely true.

        Do you know what the difference is between a millionaire and a billionaire?

        A billion dollars.

        There is really no comparison. Doctors, lawyers, tenured professors, even most CEOS are working class compared to the investor class.

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        No it’s not. A well off doctor in the U.S. has more disposable income and assets than ~97% of the worlds population, and is able to sustain their resulting material wealth as a function of economic labor exploitation of “developing” countries

        Y’all are just mad because Trump is kicking you down to hang with the rest of us poors.

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        7 hours ago

        Yeah. But this way he gets to be the most radical person in his peer group. Leftier than thou; regardless of the damage to the movement.

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        We should be starting at the billionaires and working our way down, but I also don’t care when consumerists and neo-liberals get theirs early.

        You have more than enough and should not receive even more while others have less, just like the billionaires you’re criticizing.

        This is the important part that you’re conveniently ignoring. Why should the person with a $400,000 house in suburbia be exempt from the redistribution of wealth while children starve? How much are they really contributing to the world to deserve that?

        You mention doctors and dentists, and I’d agree with you. They can keep their assets within reason.

        What about everyone else who isn’t in medicine? What about the people that aren’t easy for you to hide behind to justify your greed and consumerism?

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          Well off suburbanites should not be exempt from redistribution, but I. Doubt it will happen in a grand revolution.

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            There’s not going to be any “revolution.” I have a master’s degree in sociology. I could explain why, but it would be boring.