BrokebackHampton

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No. Legally they are property

According to which laws, exactly? My country has animal wellbeing laws that classify pets as companions and living beings, their legal status is explicitly above personal property.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Billionaires' fortunes are built not only on the back of workers through surplus value extraction and wage theft but also on the back of the state through mind-blowing amounts of tax break loopholes, special benefits and downright money handouts.

So what do they contribute? They don't innovate, they pay someone else to innovate which usually means incorporating publicly funded tech.

And to no one's surprise, most of them come up with stupid half-cooked ideas that don't contribute to society at all. Almost like if you directly gave the funding to those with the technological knowledge to develop the products the company is making, you would end up with much better products with less enshittification and profit-driven planned obsolescence that plagues us today. Almost like the CEO is just a parasite.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Octobass, nobody suspects a thing 🎶

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

iPhone mini lovers 🤝 iPad mini enthusiasts

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh no! What will I do now without the prescient geopolitical insight of the Chattanooga Evening Telegraph?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

One of the reasons billionaires managed to gather so much power and influence in our current system is because they are more coordinated and way better at class warfare than us workers.

I'd say that and the obvious mind-boggling amounts of hoarded wealth are the two main ones. And never forget those billions are, for the most part, stolen from workers through wage theft, which circles back to billionaires waging class war on us.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Big time mirin. She loves her human

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I want to get off Mr. Bones' Wild Venture Capitalist Ride

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