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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 2 days 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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[–] minorkeys@sh.itjust.works 3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

So the people who can least pay tax get even less representation to help become people who can pay taxes? There is a bunch of words we can't say without risking a terrorism or hate crime charge but billionaires can call for an end to democracy, economic genocide, enslavement of populations and the right for their companies to kill people more, and they don't get charged with anything, even though they actually have the power to enact their crimes against humanity...

[–] BillyTheKid2@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

That's literally what they want, yes. Economic slaves. A permanent underclass.