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    12 days ago

    Wholly agreed. There are no ethical billionaires. Fight me.

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      2112 days ago

      Jesus said it best

      It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

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      2912 days ago

      Nope! What you said is perfectly acceptable in polite society and in fact I agree. We should hang out sometime maybe.

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      111 days ago

      ethics should mean infants are innocent until they perform actions, yet if the infants parents were billionaires and died the infant would be a billionaire without performing any action.

    • And one of the reasons why there’s so much more wealth inequality now is what conservatives have done to the tax code. Take a loot at this chart on the highest tax bracket over time. image

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        1111 days ago

        IDK even they don’t seem happy. Elon seems fucking miserable. I mean, I don’t feel bad for them, but knowing that literally everyone thinks the world would be a better place without you can’t feel great.

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    21812 days ago

    Bill Ackman, a billionaire hedge fund manager who has backed President Donald Trump in the past, on Thursday pledged to use his money to bankroll a challenger to Mamdani in the general election.

    Case in point.

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      7912 days ago

      And how did he get those billions? How many peoples necks did he have to step on to climb his way up. It’s not so much what you do with your billions, it’s how you got them that makes you evil. The only exception to this is probably Bezos ex wife, maybe.

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        3612 days ago

        She was working for a hedge fund when she met him and they were married for 26 years. She may have given away $19 billion of her fortune, but her net worth is still $36 billion, the same as the original divorce settlement.

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        4612 days ago

        “Employees are the rungs on the ladder of success. Don’t hesitate to step on them.” -Rule of acquisition #211

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      211 days ago

      Honestly, even if you think billionaires should exist, it’s still the most logical action for Mamdani to oppose them as billionaires will do everything to stop him.

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    3012 days ago

    It takes a lot of mental gymnastics to believe that’s a controversial opinion. Most people will never meet a billionaire in their lifetime, let alone become one.

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      712 days ago

      I have met two minor billionaires in my life. They were both clearly involved in some sort of organized crime activity. And both Trump supporters before it was cool.

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    1012 days ago

    There should be a tax that ramps up more and more the closer you are to be worth 1 billion dollars. If you are worth 999.999 million 100% of your income is taxed so you never reach 1 billion. And guess what? Your quality of life will not be affected in any way whatsoever.

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      712 days ago

      Taxes can, and should go over 100% of income. Billionaires have enough assets to live without income.

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      712 days ago

      We can give them “would have been dollars” so they can still do their pathetic dick measuring contests

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    2112 days ago

    And he’s right.

    By any measure, the exidtence of that great of a disparity in wealth in a society is evidence of the failure of the systems on which that society is built.

    It’s akin to if you were responsible for caring for a field of crops, and you ended up with a field in which two or three plants were enormous, bloated and overgrown. a few were more or less healthy, snd the rest were weak and shriveled and starving.

    That rather obviously would mean you’d failed.

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      2012 days ago

      That’s entirely up to us. We need to flood all primaries, just like we did the NYC mayoral primary.

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        512 days ago

        I think the ballot reform really helped in this case. We need ballot reform.

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          311 days ago

          He won first round. We also had a ranked choice primary in 2021 when we picked Adams. The biggest difference was the increase in attendance from 21% in 2021 to 30% in 2025.

          With that being said, I still completely agree that we need to ditch FPTP.

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      1312 days ago

      Can we also bring back the classic left strategy of beating the opposition with our picket signs ? I feel like we need some of that energy rn

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        212 days ago

        My sign doubles as a battle axe. There are many conservative mansions in dire need of barbarians to be visited upon them.