• fira@lemmy.today
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    2 hours ago

    He might change his tune when he realizes the alternative is guillotines….

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    5 hours ago

    “Come on guys, I know I’m wealth hoarding and I most probably didn’t take human morals into account when I acquired it, but I have feelings okay!”

  • bluegreenpurplepink@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Wow. He has a real god complex thinking he should be “praised and thanked.” Next he’ll be mandating that his name should not be used in vain.

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    13 hours ago

    Some of them were born this way I suppose lol. They are a self-selected group of greedy people. There has never been an easier group to vilify, because they are literally villains, hoarding resources that others desperately need

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      Imagine thinking you’re better than others because you’re good at amassing wealth.

      Everywhere around you people are suffering but because of your innate superiority you are not only not suffering, you have far more than you could ever hope to need, and you cling to it white-knuckled like it’s going to stand up and walk away.

      Congratulations, you are the smelliest sphincter.

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        The interesting thing is that the media trained us to admire these people, and listen with bated breath to their advice. When in fact they are the last people we should ask for any kind of moral guidance. Their greed has made literally every major societal issue worse. Fortunately, I think that illusion is dissolving, and more and more it’s a majority opinion that the rich are too rich and it needs to stop. Lots of disagreement on how to stop it, unfortunately

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      No not at all. How can you compare making people pay taxes they owe with people talking about eating them.

      Let there be millionaires and billionaires, but they have to pay a lot of taxes for how much they get.

      Some billionaires pay less in taxes a year then poor people do.

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    Roth on Tuesday stressed the significant contributions of the city’s wealthiest residents to its tax base and said these members of the so-called one-percent are “not enemies” and are “at the top of the great American economic pyramid for a reason.”

    There it is. The “we’re better than you and deserve more” conceit.

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      14 hours ago

      That reason: they are so pathologically greedy that they grubbed up way more money than anyone could need and more than anyone else around.

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        If all it took to be rich was pathological greed, there would actually be even more billionaires.

        It’s pathological greed and generational wealth.

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      16 hours ago

      Interesting how they’re there for being stains on humanity, but they think they’re special.