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The richest one percent spending their money to keep everyone else poor. I'm shocked, shocked i tell you. Well, not that shocked, maybe just hungry? Eat the rich.
Trebuchets won't give you indigestion, are environmentally and economically friendly, easy to assemble, and require no permits to own or operate. They are also capable of flinging the fattest of fatcats at least 150m, which is either far enough, or we fire again.
#YeetTheRich
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One thing I can say, if I had UBI, I'd try to start my own business.
Yeah that might cut into the billionaires profits, so no UBI for you. Here's a UTI instead.
That's not a bad deal. Without healthcare or a steady income that's something that'll last a while.
I think the main reason is that if you had an UBI, you'd be way more eager to join a union, strike, or quit a shitty job. They know their fortune is built on labour exploitation, even the supposed 'tech' companies.
Other businesses are competition. Arguably worse than quitting that shitty job; not only aren't you willing to work for them for a shitty job/wage, you're making it more likely they'll have to compete for labor and profits.
Tbh I'd just make the 10 millionth indie game company. So in reality I'd probably pull 0 labor lol
One thing I can say, if I had UBI, 100% of it would go to my landleech to line his pockets
doing what and why can't you do it without UBI?
I mean presumably because they can't afford the risk of failure?
Why is no one also mad at the lobbying group? They come up with ideas to thwart any improvement for us all and don't see any ethical issues with what they are doing. Being paid to be genuinely evil is something that shouldn't exist as a job.
Because there's a lot of naive people who think that we can fight lobbying of big corporations by bunch of people and small business cooperation with each other.
Lol.
Imagine bunch of people trying to cooperate in lobbying vs 1 paid lawyer with unlimited budget
This really speaks to the issue of the ultra-wealthy being more interested in power over others than satiating their own needs or desires. Pathetic on their part, like a mental illness for power, manifest through the accumulation of money.
It's not really much of a surprise, human beings have been lying for power and influence over a dominion for thousands of years. The modern iteration isn't much different, aside from the modern global reach.
If we know who the billionaires are, why don't we, like, just get rid of them? This is the easiest trolley problem.
The switch in this trolley problem is inside a room and the door locks permanently if you use the switch.
I could tape a stick to an RC car and use that to flip it.
There's easily enough walls for every single one of them
Because that's terrorism or something when you start talking about the brass tacks.
Whenever anyone tells me that capitalism leads to efficient solutions or some such BS, I point them to things like this.
Even Henry Fucking Ford knew to let his employees have disposable income. Who are these dumbfucks?
The conspiracy theory that there's a small group of evil, rich people controlling the world keeps getting validated.
it's really astounding how many people choose to believe that poor people and minorities are the REAL problem, despite the fact that rich people are consistently and quite obviously being cartoonishly evil
There HAS to be a good chunk of the population that are poor as fuck, that way rich folks can keep getting those who work for them by the balls "you fuck around and I'll hire that person who's dying to take your job with a lot less pay than you" . Why do you think they hate unions and UBI and other things that could make people live a bit comfortable?
Here is a good video about it
Wonder why they're so afraid of UBI
Because if we get most of our needs met by UBI, we'd have less reason to work their horrible low paying jobs and less likely to stay a wage slave.
Yup. And they know we know that. It is now officially a fight between us and them, quite literally.
this post was submitted on 02 Mar 2024
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