providing services to the poor is inherently punishing the rich because giving the poor leverage to decide things about their lives removes that leverage from the rich
this post was submitted on 21 May 2026
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Banger of a one-liner. Simple, accurate, insightful and explanatory.
Damn, both sounds good
Why is it that as a poor person I'm supposed to care about billionaire's feelings when they'd rather me be dead???
They don't want you dead! What about all that sweet wealth they can extract from your labor!
But what about if I'm disabled or neuroatypical and accommodating my disabilit(y)(ies) would be marginally more costly than allowing me to die? 
Ah yeah. I'm in that boat too. I guess in that case the Capitalist would prefer our death.
Last time I checked, better public infrastructure benefits all members of the public, regardless of class.
The public transport, in its magnanimous equality, protects everyone, poor and rich alike, from driving their cybertrucks into a lake or crashing their private helicopters into hills.
Punishing the rich is a service for the poor. 
Socialism as a Service
They got me. My plan to force feed every rich person a full kilogram of pure saffron will probably require raising taxes again. It is a very expensive punishment, and using turmeric instead is simply not going to work.
Food colour? It is less expensive.
People treat "being rich" like an identity that you have no control over. You can just stop being rich if socialists are making your life harder. It's actually not difficult at all. Many people have done it by accident!
I've said it before: A Socialist is better at balancing the budget than the entire "fiscally conservative" 
party.
por que no los dos?
Get you a girl who can do both
That is 100% a post written by AI, they fucking love this "it's not X it's Y" pattern.
Check back with me in about a decade, I’ll probably be so jaded and burnt by then I’ll take this offer.
I’ll eat sand in my bread if it means Bezos has to chew grit like me. Fuck it.
Oh no, not the rich