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      Some of them literally have their money in Euros and European companies, which the US does not control. I’m not going to whine if you wanna revolution, that’s understandable, but be factual on the way.

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        USD is the king but yeah euro system is the other half of the orphan crushing machine

        They subject to the same rules and interoperabile

        Oligarchs can move within eurodollar no problems

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      They took it by force, why can’t we?

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      Dude, I think that sentiment is shared among all the political spectrum. What happens after is what we tend to debate. I love communism in a vacuum, but many just see it as changing one corruptible system for another.

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        I somehow like the system Germany kinda has. More Social while still having control. Some say its hard to become rich as a company, but also you can have many securities. Still. I prefer a mix of both worlds

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      A cabal of Digi-tech-al robber Barons running the country openly. Elon Musk is going to be a staff member of the US Government.

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      I’m sorry that I whine about not killing people.

      As someone that has taken beating after beating I’m not down with violence except the verbal type. But worry not they take crazy-ies like me out to fields, make us dig our own graves, and then shoot us into them.

      So maybe I have a different view of “violence for change” than you do.

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        Increasingly not even for their own benefit. They are like a parasite that is killing it’s host and therefore it’s means of subsistence

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          That’s what always gets me. You can’t spend a billion dollars on yourself - you could live in the highest possible luxury, waited on hand and foot by the best, and you’re barely going to eat up half of it in a lifetime - even if your money earned no interest

          They’re not even happy. They’re hated by many, idolized by others, and the rest want to leech off them. They don’t even have good relationships among their peers, it’s like a never ending dick measuring contest

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      None, that’s the funny part. You could almost call it a flaw with humanity as a whole.

      We can’t focus on any sort of task-at-hand for any greater good. We simply are just that self centered and greedy, despite those of us that fight against that nature, it’s still our nature.

      Climate change? You can’t make people wear masks in grocery stores or vaccinate, good luck with the climate.

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      Two options, if you’re shilling for billionaires:

      They’re intrinsically 10,000x better than you and me and deserve to be 10,000x richer.

      It’s just theirs. It says so somewhere, no backsies.

      Pure trickle-down had it’s day too, but it’s it’s a joke again in modern times, for the most part. You may object that these are all weak arguments, but basically, you and what army?

      Edit: “We need a remote chance of becoming a billionaire for anyone to go to work” is kind of a blend of trickle-down and argument number one, but I suppose I should mention it, just for the sake of completeness

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        I guess even as a billionaire, the difference between your first 50 billion and your second 50 billion is that with your second you can make frivolous purchases of social media companies without going back to being poor.

        It’s still bullshit in the big picture of history.

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          Yeah, it’s a continuous scale, which is something people miss sometimes. When you talk to people with millions of dollars they have a tendency to say they’re not that rich, and point to some guy they know with tens of millions. They’re not wrong per se even if they’re dangerously out of touch; that extra digit changes a lot.

          The bullshit is just that that scale goes way, way too high, as well as way too low. Human ability is normally distributed, and human worth is often held to be inalienably equal. Wealth follows a completely different distribution, for reasons.

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      Honestly, I think a lot of it is just to support the idea that those who have more, deserve more.

      Useful idiots are in vogue. They live vicariously through their oppressors while working service jobs for scraps.

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      I mean, my wealth has more than doubled over the past decade. The stock market has been going absolutely bananas, and my retirement accounts have done well.

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        I guess when corporate media told us the economy was doing great, it was you they were talking to, and not the other ~80–90% of Americans.

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      Past time to change the system.

      Those who benefit and think they benefit from it will fight back, though.

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    They’ll double next decade too, don’t worry. We humans aren’t really good at this planetary dominion shit. We’ve only really been at it for 200 years or so and we’re already fucking up.

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    It’s more like they have tons of more money and larger numbers in their portfolio. it’s however not a significant increase in actual wealth, since the money they have is increasingly wort less and the worth of their assets are increasingly more and more speculative in nature. The pockets of billionaires is where all the printed money eventually ends up and society is no richer for it. The money contributes to inflation, but it really doesn’t get invested or anything.

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        Because inflation and stock markets are going nuts. And since everyone working has their pension invested, their wealth went up as well. Plus house prices went up. The problem is that people confuse wealth with money. And wealth is not money. You can’t buy bread with wealth.