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Jan 19, 2024 4:02 PM
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palmmute
Poverty exists as a threat.
GravyEducation
spanksir
The fact that every caricature looks like trump makes them so much better
Lassannn
Don't forget the Enron horseshit. CEOs literally stealing billions from their own companies just to one up each other by buying expensive shit.
69thStPepper
"The fact is that the greatest crimes are caused by excess and not by necessity." - the 'stotle
ede77222
So true
Direkt4
Got 'em. America saved.
ttimbric
Oh no, it's much worse in that poverty exist because the rich want it to exist, and worse. It is created and maintained on purpose.
digitalagriculture
A lot of capitalism relies on the penalty for not working being "death".
StaccatoShrimp
They rely on the punishment being to be forced to work for free. Oh you stole bread because you need to eat, that bread cost Kroger 2 million in emotional damages so you will now be a slave for the United States government at our wonderful prisons. Once released, we will charge you for the privlege of earning us money.
UltimaDoge
Yeah, and this comic is from like 1960‘s or so. Since then, American society didn’t manage to change anything about it.
Shadowroxas870
We could literally stop this. There is more of us then them. The issue is we won't till one person finally says fuck it. All it takes is one person. The issue is I'm to much of a bitch to be that person but I would definitely follow after
MonStar1203
#eattherich
ExTechOp
Rousseau faisait parti du peuple aussi, et il disait: "Quand le peuple n'aura plus rien à manger, il mangera le riche."
[Rousseau, who was also one of the people, said: "When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich."]
— Pierre Gaspard Anaxagore Chaumette (1763–1794), President of the Paris Commune, in a speech to the city during the Reign of Terror, 1793-10-14
VibratingNipples
GravyEducation
When in doubt, be like Hobie
Morlante656
''An economy for the men, not the man for economy.''
taez555
BoominGranny
SJSHARPei
Netflix be like…
Rpgjgb
"If you're starving, you just got to tighten your belt, pick yourself up by the bootstraps, and push through to better times! Thats what I did!" ~ some rich fuck
Goldensands
So glad to see this here. His political essay (the source of this quote) Is absolute gold.
turbodog
Literally the GOP stance on refusing summer lunch for school kids. “Too many of them are obese. It’ll do them good to eat less.”
AnonKneeMoose
Why are they obese? Only affordable food is HFC loaded garbage.
turbodog
"You will NOT get free healthy food, street urchins! You will eat from OUR factory trough, and you will PAY for it!"
letsloveeachother
But have you tried feeding the poor?
Deikin
The rich can never be satisfied. Once their needs are met, it's just a pointless ego race against each other for excess. That's why they need to be restricted more by legislature.
euphoricopportunity
How about: for every $100 million you get, we take a bone out of your body and you can't replace it.
digitalagriculture
They're literally hoarders, just with money instead of knickknacks and newspapers.
Goldensands
There was a study done by young economists students where they compared the wealth of Smaug (dragon from the hobbit, the largest hoard of fictional gold) with Jeff bezos. The dragon lost. It wasn't close.
AnonKneeMoose
Worse than hoarders, Hoarders don’t use their accrued items to torment or control other people. Excessive Wealth is almost always used to exert control over another human being in some way.
MrGRN38
Time for workers of the world to unite.
cbla
Kind of looks like Doug Ford.
RedWingedBlackbirds
Secretary of the Treasury's plans to do something about corporate greed and corporate real estate:
https://fortune.com/2024/01/08/janet-yellen-treasury-database-money-laundering-shell-companies/
digitalagriculture
This appears to only address money laundering and financial crimes, not the inherent greed of capitalism and business.
RedWingedBlackbirds
It's a start
Kat1997
Growth model capitalism ruins everything eventually. It's unsustainable, and we all know it, but still, companies will do anything to promise the shareholders more money next year. It's never enough.
ServaDoctrina
Who do you expect to rise to the top in a system that rewards those who value profit above literally everything else?
Lowslefthand
Bring back calling those that hoard money glutens.
psmith00
this cannot be upvoted enough times.
lightfantasticem172
*choose to appease the rich.
Exdeath5000
Look at that greedy fucker on the right! -Billionaires
Camelspotting
-also other people on the right
darthstormer
Does that gluttonous asshole have TWO coins on his plate?
Klavierbauer
Did he work for those coins?
thermodaemonics
The version with the cookie billionaire using bigotry (culture war, anyone?) to misdirect. A missing piece here is the real billionaire hires convincing "news" actors to do the misdirection.
lilgoth89
and also tells the Foreigner that the hard working guy is the reason that he doesn't have a cookie
zackingsman
That one guy looks like sheldon Adelson But really all billionaires kind of look like him anyway
ParryLost
"We need higher unemployment, to remind him that he works for the employer and not the other way around!"
Bystandr
Also: due to our inability to disburse funds marked for the poor without embezzlement by the rich. This has occurned with PPP pandemic loans
Bystandr
has and is occuring with insurance fraud and how insurance is billed, and indirectly via price hikes over inflation including all kinds of
Bystandr
goods, and now, critically, with the buy ups of realestate by Bezos, Valorant, and every other venture capitolist which when the bubble
Bystandr
gets so big even the lower end of the upper class cant afford a home and the value of homes starts to crash, no government will be able to
Bystandr
bail the banks and hedge funds out. Were in for a rude wakeup call coming soon, which can only be mitigated by ripping the bandaid off early
Bystandr
and taxing multiple property owning beyond the second building prohibitively.
SomeDetroitGuy
PPP loans were ALWAYS a handout to the capitalist class.
thesmelge
Yeah, the company I worked for got several months of money from the government for furlough staff, but just before furlough announced that everyones salary was going down 20% to help the company survive the pandemic. My suspicion is they reported the full wages, got the full wages then gave everyone the 80% and pocketed the rest. The CEO bought some new racehorses for his wife around the same time.
AnonKneeMoose
See if this was 100 years ago, that owner would have been hung from a lamp-post by his employees.
thesmelge
THing is, there's zero evidence other than he was known for doing dodgy things and sending people to "see" his competitors.
Vallete
Just remember, whenever anyone says "economy" replace it with "rich people's yacht money"
Stargrave3000
No. That meme needs to die. The rich people are the ones who feel the effects of the economy the least.
Vallete
But anytime I hear someone say we need to sacrifice 'for the economy' I feel like they really mean 'i like to lick rich people's boots'
Rubblebubble
agreed, though the "economy" is a thing. It's just a vast and nebulous thing and the measures we typically use are terrible. GDP? Stock market prices? all bullshit. we need to be looking at the avg workers income and instead of focusing on overall unemployment we need to put that in context of the number of people working 2 or more jobs (spoiler, that's been going up pretty rapidly)
Stargrave3000
Have you actually listened to any economists? Because they focus on those things ALL the time. And spoiler, that number is not going up. The US job market is getting worker friendlier by the day.
Vallete
BiologicallyHazardousMaterial
we should also be looking at how far a dollar reaches vs how much wealth it brings to one entity
ArdentSlacker
This is known as "velocity of money". When you give money to a poor person, it does a lot of economic activity and changes hands many times before dying in the stock market.
the economy *is* people spending money, it is not "rich people's investments". They don't invest anyway, they just play the stock market like a rigged casino.
"The value of money is the labor it buys." Money ain't even real, you know?
Rubblebubble
EXACTLY! By hoarding their wealth billionaires and corps with insanely large cash holdings (looking at you Apple) are in many ways actively harming the "real" economy by keeping that money from doing anything (other than looking good).
digitalagriculture
Capitalism does not drive innovation, capitalism extracts wealth and resources from the 99% to give to the 1%.
Stargrave3000
Capitalism absolutely drives innovation. It's not neraly the only driver of innovation, but it isna fairly successful one.
digitalagriculture
I don't think "illegal taxi company" and "illegal hotel company" are particularly innovative, which is all we get these days.
Stargrave3000
The phone you typed that on has billions of times more processing power than the computer that went to the moon. That didn't come from thin air.
digitalagriculture
Yeah, it came from a lot of government and public funding. Capitalism would never have created the internet.
Stargrave3000
I assure you the government absolutely did not give a shit about putting a phone with more power than all of Earth 50 years ago into your hands. Asus and Intel busting their asses to outdo each other so they could sell more shit to you for 40 years did that. Capitalism also created the Internet. What the government did was select the communication protocols that govern it, by favoring DARPA's design. Those protocols are now being improved on by private entities.