Genuinely of the belief half the reason people permit billionares is mathematical iliteracy.
If you aren’t filled with murderous rage at the idea of that much wealth being held back from those who need it you either don’t understand the scale or don’t have empathy.
Billionaires don’t hold their assets in cash, those billions are generally some businesses that create goods and jobs. People need both.
Read the sidebar. We don’t do neoliberalism apologia here
Everything I don’t like is neoliberalism.
Anyway, should I block this sub or is it whole instance of wild takes?
You should post your opinions about how anarchy is when no veggies and no bedtime. How life used to be nasty brutish and short, and how without men with guns everywhere it would be all against all.
We could really stand to learn from more people who’s expertise is:
- reads 5 different news outlets sometimes
- went to highschool in the the anglosphere.
You literally spew neolib talking points and then get offended when we label it as such?
Go learn what “neoliberalism” is you twit.
Yeah, my best friend got his start doing lines of gunpowder-and-cocaine guarding a mine and making sure the workers didn’t escape, and yeah it didn’t ‘pay’ but after fifyeen years, at just the age of twenty three, he was leading his own machete weilding militia, carving apart undesirables and leaving morale-inspiring displays.
Some people just hate the profoubd opportunity for marginalized populations that job creators provide.
I actually disagree with getting rid of billionaires or their ability to lobby governments; billionaires being able to lobby governments in a democracy is actually integral to the continued functioning efficacy of any country.
Instead, America should become a direct democracy where people vote directly on the issues and the billionaires can lobby the entire population instead.
Also lobbying isn’t bribery; here’s a reddit post explaining how unlike bribes which seeks to influence people in power, lobbying merely seeks to influence people in power:
Apparently unlike bribery where if you bribe them, they can decide not to side with you and you can simply not bribe them again, whereas with lobbying if you lobby them and they decide not to side with you, you can instead not lobby them again. Apparently with lobbying you can’t ask for your money back or threaten them because they didn’t do what you wanted, unlike bribery where instead you can’t ask for your money back or threaten them because they didn’t do what you wanted.
Now it might seem on the face of it that these are entirely the same things, but lobbyists assure me they’re not!
(I noticed some people here really can’t tell sarcasm, so for the record: yes, this is sarcasm; don’t be libby or I’ll lobby Dobby to lobby a libby at your snobby lobby)
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that opening got me lol.
I mean, the prognosis is correct. But I’m still waiting to hear the remedy.
“Billionaires keep surrounding themselves with armed sociopaths every time they feel threatened” doesn’t explain how to get through the cushion of Joe Rogan fans shielding Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk from any kind of consequence for their criminality and callous obliteration of life and property.
The cushion of Joe Rogan fans feel powerful by association, because they have no idea what actual power actually feels like. This is what happens when people’s power to affect their own destinies is gone; they’ll seek out the feeling of power in the easiest place it can be found.
Yep. Gotta give them something in their actual lives.
And that’s why building mutual aid networks is so important. When people don’t have to sell themselves to acquire their basic necessities, they gain back the power over their own destiny, preventing them from turning into sycophants out of desperation.
Those networks are far more effective as genuonely mutual aid though, when it’s not just a second power structure that while not useless is only alternates for the last couple links in a long supply chain.
Creating new sources, replacing links farther up, and showing people their own agency to reduce alienation is such a big deal in making them capable independent peers, rather than just tools with a handle you can hold.
