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[–] godsammitdam@lemmy.zip 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

So...the billionaires?

They reject reality and they surround themselves with yes men and delude themselves into believing they're better and smarter than everyone else when they simply were lucky. Lucky to have parents to invest in them, lucky to have generational wealth, lucky to in the right time and right place to profit off of certain ideas before others did.

Instead, they impose their will upon us because they reject reality, like taxing the fuck out of them and redistributing to the workforce, lifting people up out of hunger, our of poverty, and educating them provides a stronger, more robust workforce and a better society.

They reject that not everything needs a profit motive and are subsumed by that one principle, making more profit at all costs. As such, they lambast public services, which are a SERVICE, they do not seek to make profit, they provide. Parasites like Bezos only exist because the government subsidizes them. Private companies like UPS and FedEx don't guarantee to deliver to rural and more distant/out of the way locations because it's not proditable. USPS does. Sam Walton subsidizes his workforce by hiring those who qualify for benefits, to which his company recieves tax breaks from the government shifting tax burden down to you, and then pays them poverty wages so they still rely on benefits like snap while not being able to find another job because walmart, in their small towm, drove out all the competition.

So yes. Drive these deluded fucks out. At least then it would open more opportunity for other smaller, more passionate businesses, creators, and people to fill the space they leave behind. And stop closing your eyes to the system that they parasitize. Excise the tumor that's draining all the resources from the host or the host will eventually die.

[–] MyVeryRealName@lemmy.world -1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think they actually believe that they're better than others. That's just capitalist propaganda that they spread to justify their wealth to the masses.

[–] godsammitdam@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

You're naive then.

How can they engage in blatant corruption, cut cancer research, repeal environmental protections, pollute the air, water, land, and even sound waves that cause people to get sick, and forge ahead? Being charitable, they don't care about human life. It looks more like cruelty for the sake of profit, making us sick and exhausted so that we're easier divided and less likely to fight back.

They have the ideology of rapists. Listen to the billionaire commencent speakers recently, saying "you're going to get AI whether you like it or not." And who is the reason for that? Did we consent to it? Not in the least. Billionaires have built a solution and are trying to fit a square peg into a circular hole, attempting to find any problem they cam spin up.

Meanwhile, AI has largely been shown to be mostly worthless, 95% of AI pilots aren't generating anything meaningful, some reports even showing it costs 25% more than paying human workers in many cases. Yet, they press on, literally telling us that these layoffs are because of AI, or constantly pushing us to use it more and provide more and more deliverables faster and faster, regardless of quality, and then vital systems break.

You're either a bad actor or just naive friend. We are simply numbers to them. We are beneath them just as peasants were seen as beneath their lords by their lords.