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[A thin boy in ragged clothing holds out a bowl to an overweight Elon Musk] Musk: Society needs billionaires, we keep you from starving. Boy: Please, I’m starving. Can you help me? Musk: Fuck you.

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  • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    “Poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich.”

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    Friendly reminder that over 4 million children are in the process of dying because of his actions cutting foreign aid.

    You have to be truly mentally ill, or something less than human, to be this kind of evil.

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      over 4 million children are in the process of dying because of his actions cutting foreign aid.

      They’re dying because we’ve ramped up arms exports to surrounding territories in the midst of a climate crisis.

      The idea that countries like Sudan and Libya and Haiti need USAID is predicated on us ignoring why they’re impoverished and war torn to begin with

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    Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

    Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

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    A business is made, and is successful. WELL DONE.

    Instead of a billion dollars going to the owner and, let’s say, 100K in salary to each worker… what if the CEO only made 100 million, and the employees each made 500K in salary?

    Is that communism?

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      what if the CEO only made 100 million, and the employees each made 500K in salary?

      The Raytheon Strategy.

      Works great if you’re trying to bribe Nazi ex-pats into compliance while fighting a war of arms escalation.

      Is that communism?

      True Communism can only be achieved if we wipe all the current communists off the map, take their stuff, and impose “democracy” through an occupying military.

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      To play devil’s advocate they would reply that without the owner there would be 0 salary for each worker.

      And you have to be careful. CEO and owner most of the time isn’t the same person.

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        Of course, this argument is a pretty piss poor one when the example held up is Musk…

        His first jolt was selling a website to a relatively clueless Compaq that did nothing with it except throw money at Elon. No idea if Elon’s site was any good or not, but it didn’t matter because the reality is that it folded without an enduring impact as part of the dot-com collapse. He used his winnings to try to make X.com the first time, and was a comparative failure next to Paypal, which, somehow, agreed to merge and put him in charge and he almost tanked it. Then ebay bought it out and Musk got maddening amount of money for doing nothing but screw it up.

        Tesla is probably the first example of him not actively screwing it up, though his drama around “I wanna call myself a founder” was dumb. That said, any investor could have done it, so his ‘value’ was his lottery-like wins leading to that point.

        There are others that are arguable, though recently had it happen where someone kept giving out names of impressive and seemingly valuable ‘billionaires’, and we kept checking and every last one were ‘only’ millionaires. So it seems like ‘billionaire’ remains a stupidly over the top concept that isn’t particularly redeemable, with the defensibly decent folks staying under a billion through not being super greedy and/or philanthropy.

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      That wasn’t aimed at the billionaire. It was aimed at the billionaire’s monster, a misunderstood child-like creature abused into madness.

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    Billionaire “charities”: The billionaires own your workplace. They underpay you but it would be even worse if you didn’t have any job, isn’t it? They sell you garbage products, but haven’t you thought that the fact everyone else also use them might be a sign that it’s actually good, you’re just too needy? They help fascists into power, but did you know that communism killed more by numbers? And no more vaccines for Africa, because they now want disease-driven eugenics.

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    Just chiming in to say OP I’ve seen a couple of your posts before, but this is the first time I ever clicked on your pfp out of curiousity, and it’s hilarious hahaha 10/10