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It's Shopify's Tobi Lutke.

A reminder that he's behind Build Canada and Build Toronto, and that Build Toronto's Eric Lombardi is running for the Ontario Librral Party leadership as we speak.

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[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 70 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Billionaires shouldn’t exist.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 17 points 5 days ago (3 children)

That is why we need to tax them.

[–] Davel23@fedia.io 26 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yes. We need to... tax... them.

[–] Somsphet@lemmy.zip 23 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Im sorry, im hard of hearing. Did you say Axe them?

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[–] MisterD@lemmy.ca 37 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Why should billionaires get to vote? They live in an alternate reality.

[–] grte@lemmy.ca 15 points 4 days ago

They shouldn't even exist.

[–] asg101@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Talk like this is almost like they are BEGGING for the guillotines to start rolling out.

[–] BillyTheKid2@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

They've been begging for decades

[–] lookitsjustin@lemmy.ca 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I used to work at Shopify. Wouldn't recommend it.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 days ago

Anything you can share without doxxing yourself too much?

[–] switcheroo@lemmy.world 28 points 5 days ago

Billionaires are such fucking parasites...

[–] BillCheddar@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

When you said "under fire" I thought you meant literally, as in their is a squad of soldiers currently training their machine guns on the lad's home.

[–] WasabiWabbit@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago

One could dream

[–] thefluffiest@feddit.nl 22 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Under fire? Why do you guys keep missing?

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 11 points 4 days ago (19 children)

I just want world wide wealth caps. 10 million is the max that any person canboen or control. Any additional income after that goes 100% straight to taxes.

This simple rule has wide spread implications from ending poverty to likely ending wars, removing power from narcissist politicians, and souch more

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[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 12 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but trillionaires should be forced to transition into billionaires, and billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

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[–] trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf 7 points 4 days ago
[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

He’s right though. The oligarchs having to own news and social media to get the election outcomes they want, and then also having to lobby those politicians to enact the right policies is incredibly inefficient. It would be simpler if the politicians were unelected and simply payrolled employees of the owner class.

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[–] Greyghoster@aussie.zone 6 points 4 days ago

It used to be that only property owners could vote. The laws all favoured the property owners.

[–] UpAndAtThem@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Has he considered that voting is free, but bullets are cheap? If he were smart, he'd be wary of taking the ballot box out of the equation.

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[–] Whitebrow@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Under fire? Put him in the fire.

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[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 4 days ago

Billionaire people shouldn't be able to vote.

They have power through capital already, they don't need more.

[–] rozodru@piefed.world 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Why is everyone that has worked on Ruby on Rails a total and utter douchebag? should be studied how that one project seems to have spawned some of the biggest bigoted asshole douches in the tech industry.

Lutke is a moron just like DHH is a moron and surprise surprise they're both from RoR.

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[–] ProudCanadianCitizen@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 days ago (11 children)

Better idea - only the middle class can vote.

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (12 children)

The middle class already decides most elections because politicians target the middle class as a voting bloc.

This is why housing prices always seem to trend up: middle class wealth is concentrated in their family home.

This is also why there’s so much government funding for universities (public universities). The middle class disproportionately benefit from it. Taxes on working class people to pay for higher education that their own children don’t benefit from are regressive taxes. Basically a wealth transfer from the working class to the middle class.

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