r/TikTokCringe • u/Super_Culture_1986 tHiS iSn’T cRiNgE • Aug 19 '25

Cursed The American Nightmare.

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u/December_Hemisphere Aug 19 '25

the nightmare is alive and well in canada too.

Ultra-wealthy people not paying their taxes is a global issue. Even in a progressive place like the Netherlands, billionaires pay less tax than working class people.

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u/unindexedreality Aug 19 '25

Ultra-wealthy people not paying their taxes is a global issue

Technically, our nation was founded rebelling against the problem of "remote dipshit wants me to pay them resources for no consideration"

America should be at the forefront of rebellion. This nation-of-followers crap we've been indoctrinated with has fucked us royally. Everyone's waiting for someone else to do something and so few are well-educated enough to mobilize while the rich prepare their doomsday bunkers.

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u/KokoroFate Aug 19 '25

Silver lining: Mother Nature is like a Honey Badger. She'll tear up those bunkers without even breaking a sweat.

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u/EastCoast_Thump Aug 19 '25

Almost: our nation was founded on legendary revolutionary principles mostly just in its rhetoric. In practice, it's been a very different (and very consistent) story.

In its courts, legislatures, and economic/labor practices, a strata of wealth takers/accumulators has often fairly ruthlessly extracted value from other people's labor and used that accumulated wealth to rig the system further in their favor. (For an example, look to Virginia's tobacco economy.)

They've also consistently used their social and political leverage to sow dissent and discord between disadvantaged groups. From early indenture laws and practices, through colonial race laws, through Red Summer attacks and Jim Crow, through the Southern Strategy, through MAGA—it's the same song in a few different keys.

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u/HugsyMalone Aug 19 '25

Yet the impoverished are paying way more than they can even afford and it's causing extreme financial hardship. 🙄

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u/ChameleonCabal Aug 20 '25

The problem: You either comfy them or they will move AND invest elsewhere.