• @secundnature@lemmy.world
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    1351 year ago

    The richest one percent spending their money to keep everyone else poor. I’m shocked, shocked i tell you. Well, not that shocked, maybe just hungry? Eat the rich.

    • @AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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      Trebuchets won’t give you indigestion, are environmentally and economically friendly, easy to assemble, and require no permits to own or operate. They are also capable of flinging the fattest of fatcats at least 150m, which is either far enough, or we fire again.

      #YeetTheRich

      ^(this message brought to you by the trebuchet meme gang)

    • @jonne@infosec.pub
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      411 year ago

      I think the main reason is that if you had an UBI, you’d be way more eager to join a union, strike, or quit a shitty job. They know their fortune is built on labour exploitation, even the supposed ‘tech’ companies.

      • @solarvector@lemmy.zip
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        161 year ago

        Other businesses are competition. Arguably worse than quitting that shitty job; not only aren’t you willing to work for them for a shitty job/wage, you’re making it more likely they’ll have to compete for labor and profits.

        • @Sanctus@lemmy.world
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          41 year ago

          Tbh I’d just make the 10 millionth indie game company. So in reality I’d probably pull 0 labor lol

    • Milksteaks [he/him]
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      41 year ago

      One thing I can say, if I had UBI, 100% of it would go to my landleech to line his pockets

  • @ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
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    671 year ago

    Why is no one also mad at the lobbying group? They come up with ideas to thwart any improvement for us all and don’t see any ethical issues with what they are doing. Being paid to be genuinely evil is something that shouldn’t exist as a job.

    • @Pieresqi@lemmy.world
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      251 year ago

      Because there’s a lot of naive people who think that we can fight lobbying of big corporations by bunch of people and small business cooperation with each other.

      Lol.

      Imagine bunch of people trying to cooperate in lobbying vs 1 paid lawyer with unlimited budget

  • @jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
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    461 year ago

    If we know who the billionaires are, why don’t we, like, just get rid of them? This is the easiest trolley problem.

  • @Kiryu@lemmy.world
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    This really speaks to the issue of the ultra-wealthy being more interested in power over others than satiating their own needs or desires. Pathetic on their part, like a mental illness for power, manifest through the accumulation of money.

    • @bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
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      41 year ago

      It’s not really much of a surprise, human beings have been lying for power and influence over a dominion for thousands of years. The modern iteration isn’t much different, aside from the modern global reach.

  • circuitfarmer
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    381 year ago

    Whenever anyone tells me that capitalism leads to efficient solutions or some such BS, I point them to things like this.

    • Come on. You realise things aren’t all bad or all good right?

      Yes it’s true that capitalism hasn’t worked out, but it’s not true that capitalism has no beneficial qualities whatsoever.

      • bane_killgrind
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        31 year ago

        What? Capitalism has no intentional benefits that aren’t personal.

        Every single feature benefits specific people instead of… Everybody.

        Are you high?

  • Endmaker
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    371 year ago

    The conspiracy theory that there’s a small group of evil, rich people controlling the world keeps getting validated.

    • @Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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      171 year ago

      it’s really astounding how many people choose to believe that poor people and minorities are the REAL problem, despite the fact that rich people are consistently and quite obviously being cartoonishly evil

    • varoth
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      131 year ago

      Because if we get most of our needs met by UBI, we’d have less reason to work their horrible low paying jobs and less likely to stay a wage slave.

  • @bugs@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Downvote me if you want but using ai images in an article bashing the rich is extremely hypocritical. AI is a content theft machine that takes from artist so websites like this can generate images without paying actual artist.