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Billionaire CEO of Canada’s Shopify demands abolition of right to vote for broad sections of the population (www.wsws.org)

submitted 1 day ago by VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to c/billionaire@lemmy.ca

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Social media comments by Tobias Lütke, the right-wing CEO of the Canadian online shopping site Shopify, in which the multi-billionaire attacks universal suffrage have been met with outrage in Canada and internationally.

Lütke declared that voting rights should be stripped from those whom he termed “dependents”—based on their payment of income tax. This would disenfranchise wide swathes of workers on low wages, elderly pensioners, the unemployed, students and the infirm. These proposals were met with support from within the Canadian capitalist oligarchy and international financial elite, including from the fascist Elon Musk.

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[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca -3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I mean... I don't love Tobi or Shopify, but this is a bit disingenuous.

Yeah, Shopify Pay offers an installment paying option, and yes those suck. But you can be a Shopify merchant without using that feature, and that feature didn't exist for most of the company's lifetime.

It's shitty, yes, but if that feature went away Shopify would still exist and Tobi would still be a billionaire, it's not, like, where the money comes from.

[–] Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca 1 points 12 hours ago

I didn't say, "shopify merchant." I'm not demonizing retailers that decide to use shopify as a payment option.