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72% of Americans Say the Rich 'Have Too Much' as GOP Pursues Another Handout for Billionaires
(www.commondreams.org)
Where the fuck were they during the election?
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Dumbfucks believed the orange guy who was sitting in front of the billionaires. Lets not forget that a third of the us isn’t capable of reading above the 6th grade level.
It's more about lack of Critical Thinking Skills than anything else.
It ain't about "having too much". Billionaires shouldn't exist. Ipso facto, their very existence only shows that corruption and greed can influence anything to point that whatever that thing is only serves those corrupted. End it. There should be no Billionaires.
In other words, a billion is too much money for one person to have.
It's the POWER that a billion bucks holds that's dangerous. We now have numerous billionaires with enough money to negotiate their own terms with foreign governments, without regard to how it might affect America as a whole. Eventually, world-wide power will be held by the Sociopathic Oligarchs, and instead of countries regulating THEM, they'll be regulating the countries to suit their own selfish purposes.
And eventually, that will lead to Sociopathic Oligarchs making conflicting demands, and they'll end up going to war with each other, with countries and citizens caught in the crossfire.
And this is precisely why a billion is too much money for one person to have.
In related news, 28% of Americans are complete and utter fucking morons.
28% of Americans think they are billionaires that are just suffering a temporary financial setback.
"If it wasn't for those Democrats, we'd all be rich!"
Anytime there's a shitty statistic, it's often always around 25-35%
In my experience, around 57% of statistics are made up.
42%
So 1/3 people completely fuckin sucks. This tracks with my anecdotal data
The survey only involved like 950 people and it only defined it as, "the rich" which seems pretty vague. Given the survey also mentions Bezos and Musk it wouldn't surprise me if that is the group having too much on this survey, not humble millionaires like you and me.
Don't forget all of the people who will certainly be millionaires in the future! They will definitely not be middle class and delusional for the rest of their lives
The difference between a million and a billion is about a billion. So even millionaires look like pathetic poors to Billionaires.
Middle-class people will be millionaires.
$1M equates to $40k/year income in retirement at a 4% SWR (safe withdrawal rate). In 2025, that's not actually a lot, even if you have Social Security on top of it.
If you're not a millionaire by the time you're retired, you're damn near impoverished. The only way for that to count as "middle class" (in the "close to the median income" sense) is if the middle class is destroyed (in the "existing separate and distinct from the lower class" sense).
(INB4 somebody chimes in with "it never was separate and distinct" -- yeah, yeah, I know, working-class solidarity and all that. But you get my point, right?)
72% is way too low given how insane the current wealth distribution is. Fully 1/4 of the population have drunk the kool-aid
"I'm going to be rich, soon" they say while they're considering payment plans for a Taco Bell order.
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And yet, about half of voting Americans will actively ignore those impulses and choose a party that openly campaigns on tax reductions while it drums up fears surrounding issues they largely agree with (when presented in a non-partisan context) so does it really matter what they say?
45% of voting age Americans didn't even fucking bother to vote
Well, a lot of them decided the genocide half way across the world was more important than the genocide they would help to trigger back home.
And also that somehow Trump wasn't so much fucking worse on the genocide halfway across the world, despite his close cooperation with and endorsement from Netanyahu.
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6% said "the poor have too much"
wat
Are you not aware that poor people have smartphones these days? Back in my day being poor meant having absolutely nothing. I say we take their phones away and their shoes too for good measure. That way they’ll know what true poverty is like /s
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friendly reminder, it would take 1,460,714,285 weeks of minimum wage to earn musks net worth. That's 27 million years.
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There are more poor than rich. We just have to come together. There is strength in numbers.
No way. Americans are proud they are not communists, meaning they complain but ultimately worship the rich
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No they don't, their voting clearly shows the opposite.
"Donald Trump stands up for the little guy like you and me" - the mental giants we're dealing with
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no shit Capt. obvious
The rich have too much by definition, but billionaires in America have an historically obscene amount of wealth. Wealth inequality in today’s America has surpassed pre-Revolution France.
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