Top 10 US billionaires’ collective wealth grew by $698bn in past year.
Posted by FlyGloomy1
Top 10 US billionaires’ collective wealth grew by $698bn in past year.
Posted by FlyGloomy1
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Makes me want to puke. Sad thing is, people in this country will continue to get taken in by protecting these people from taxes and/or prosecution. We have a country that practically honors billionaires as royalty.
As a kid learning about the reign of terror post french revolution, i couldn’t understand why they would want to just collectively eliminate an entire class of people, regardless of their power (or lack thereof) within the government and economic systems.
I don’t question that motive or rage anymore. I get it. The amount of stress that comes from poverty and being in the working class for generations induces rage when the wealth of others is flaunted in your face. especially when its YOUR labor giving them that life.
The government is cutting social reform programs, raising the taxes – which impact middle & lower-class people…all to put more money into the hands of the rich…we’re living through a time where our wages are not increasing enough to afford anything while the cost of living is increasing.
and this is why we need to return to the 94% tax
Okay but how? Is that wealth represented by something tangible and with real value, or is it all speculative and assumed based on stock investments? A lot of this dragon gold doesn’t even actually exist. Why are we as a society pretending that these people- who aren’t special- actually have wealth when they don’t have anything to show for it?
I won’t say what I wish would happen outright… but I wish that all these billionaires would go away and their wealth could be redistributed.
It’s not a race war its a class war.
The saddest thing about it is that most of his voters don’t realize that he despises them.
I’m watched a PBS American Experience Documentary “The Gilded Age” amd basically we’re in a 2.0 version of that. Rather than JP Morgan, Rockefeller, Carnegie, Vanderbilt, it’s these tech tycoons who haven’t even contributed as much as the old school ones.