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Tezerah1
#4 💯
FortifiedWhine
#2 Obama really must have scared the poor rich white men...
NervousAstronaut
I'm all for the Bernie Sanders proposal, but you know that'll just prompt those same billionaires to cut employee pay and benefits by the amount lost.
However, if you COULD get this passed, you then have the leverage to say, "Wanna try for 10?"
Tezerah1
#3 second behind hitler in deaths caused
TonawandaBlue
#1
ForlornHopeful
Although turning a JPG into a GIF just to add music to it was certainly a choice
bobbersonbob
Never notoced it before, but Greta's name morphs to "Great". That makes sense. Great Thunberg strikes again.
ThatGuyFromJustSouthOfTheMiddleOfNowhere
#3 Elon Musk Said He'd Give $6 Billion to End World Hunger If the UN Could Explain How — They Did, But He Didn't Give Them a Dime
supervillin
Instead, he spent over 7 times more money to buy and mess up Twitter.
Raikupath
That whole scenario in of itself is dystopian. Why should someone on earth be able to have that much money? Doesn't matter if he has it on his bank account or not, he has the influence that comes with that money he only put into assets etc. because that's a nice way to not pay taxes on money he made by stealing taxpayer money. We shouldn't wait for a rich piece of shit to fix a problem that only exists because of capitalism.
clonedeeznuts
An educated girl is something every pedophile is terrified of
CaptValdiaBlack
#4 No, simply because it doesn't go far enough.
MaximilianShade
Get it started at 5%, to have it happen at all, and people will start to feel the benefit. Then ratchet higher.
CaptValdiaBlack
I agree, for sure.
dentd
Early? Most sane Americans would be ecstatic to be able to comfortably retire at 65 -this fucker is 80 and will have to be pried out.
ACatNamedJonesy
early? was thinking the same thing, he's running late for a massive stroke
cowgoesmoo1
He's not retiring because there's still money out there he hasn't stolen.
ArchMagos
Whether it's before January 20th 2029 or after, he's going to end up dying in the White House.
alienstomper
#2 hmm i wonder if anything happened between 2008 and 2012 to make for such a large increase? Maybe in 2012?
Guess we'll never know
xizar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_phenomenon?useskin=vector
Cyclicus
Must've been the release of Prometheus; absolutely nothing was going on in the courts.
Tezerah1
Trumpflation
mercyPandaRunner
One factor to keep track of is, 2012, the richest person in the world, Carlos Slim, had a net worth of 69 billiom USD. Tailing the top 10, Karl Albrecht with 25,4 billion.
2026, 1. Elon Musk, 839 billion USD (outdated, now over a trillion) and the 10th richest person, Amancio Ortega, 148 billion USD.
1997 and 1998 (the same distance before), Bill Gates led the pack with 36.4 billion and 51 billion USD. 10th place in both years 10 and 11 billion.
This is exponential growth. The amount of >
mercyPandaRunner
money spent by billionaires to buy politics is, of course, let loose by Citizens United, but the spending is correllated to how much money they have. Driving home in both cases, that this is not a "bad billionaire" problem, but a billionaire problem. Even with Citizens United overturned, they will find a way to buy politics. The root issue is that there are people with enough money to do such a thing one way or another. The corellation is clear.
Scahrossar
This. CU is bad, of course, but when you can just buy the media, or at least influence it severely, thats more than enough. Given the education level of most jourenalists, they're already biased toward the more well off anyway.
mercyPandaRunner
Here in Germany, campaign finance laws are way stricter than in the US. There's still empirical studies showing in quantifyable data that rich people are many times more likely to get their preferred policies implemented than average people. It's no coincidence. There is no way to have anything like this kind of wealth disparity without rich peopley individually or as a class, exerting outsized influence on political decisions.
The problem is that billionaires exist.
Scahrossar
Not just billionaires but yes. I'm your neighbour and we see the same here. A growing wealth disparity and the blame gets put on immigrants while all forms of social security and healthcare are cut. Meanwhile the rich (and not nearly billionaire rich) are free to buy up housing to rent out without having to pay an extra cent.