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The "American Dream" costs far more than most people will earn over their lifetime
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And Musk makes over 3.5x that amount in a single day.
Three and a half lifetimes of work per day, and nobody wants to do anything about the billionaire problem?
I wish that was enough.
I wish we had ranked choice voting so I could vote for Bernie and not fear my vote being wasted :(
Better yet, STAR voting or 3-2-1.
Who will hold their nose and vote for whatever slop the Dems put up for them.
Bernie toed the line. Enough of his supporters did the same. You need better than Bernie.
But you don't understand. Billionaires earn their money. They're superior to us. They make that much because they're just much better people than the rest of us. If you stood next to Musk you would notice the heat radiating from his head as his massive Iron-Man like intellect dwarfs your puny brain. You should be in awe of his superiority and beg to have his children (even if you're a guy). Clearly they should be rewarded for all their helping society and their taxes should be LOWERED, not increased.
The REAL billionaire problem is that we don't have enough of them!
If money is imaginary then why can't we guarantee food, shelter, clothing, and education for every single human on this planet.
Cause fuck em, that's probably why
You're half right (there is no finite pool of money) but your conclusion is bonkers. Rich people are not spending their money, they're using it to outbid each other for control of existing assets. So that they can overcharge ordinary people to access the things that they need.
The boots are not that tasty. Stop fucking yourself over for a chance to lick them.
Always the same. Someone says what amounts to quit whining and try, the excuses start
You are not a temporarily embarrassed millionaire. You're one of the people the wealthy gladly step on. We're all in the same boat, sharing the same crumbs, rowing our hearts out.
We're tugging a yacht behind us, full of billionaires having a banquet on the backs of our labor.
Man I love the image of us rowing to tug a yacht that is still belching out smoke but I'm personally a fan of the idea of a runaway train