• ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶@lemmy.nz
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    5
    arrow-down
    10
    ·
    7 months ago

    Because when that happens, we just find a new rich class, slightly below the ones we just ate. So they go too… now there is a newest rich class, just below the previous.

    And so on, until you’re the new rich class.

    • WaxedWookie@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      7 months ago

      In 2020, it took about 25 seconds for Bezos’ net worth to increase by the national annual median income - whether he was working, sleeping, shitting, fucking, or butt-chugging the tears of the employees he’s working to death.

      He eared all that for what? Owning shit and stealing the value of peoples’ work. That’s not a job, that’s not of value.

      We’re a looooooooooooong way from having to worry about eating regular people.

      Meanwhile, the Department of Housing and Urban Development estimates the cost of ending homelessness in the US is $20bn/year. We place more value on Bezos alone having a Scrooge McDuckian money pit than we do on ending homelessness for almost a decade.

      Fuck right off with your slippery slope bullshit.

    • biddy@feddit.nl
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      7 months ago

      But isn’t that the whole point. The working class becomes the new rich class. That sounds like equal distribution of wealth.