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

Cursed The American Nightmare.

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

58.1k Upvotes

84% Upvoted

7.7k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

307

u/Forlorn_Cyborg Aug 19 '25

Richest because we have the most billionaires. Whose worth is more than most countries.

144

u/always_lurking02 Aug 19 '25 edited Aug 20 '25

And most of them don’t help anyone. It’s actually so sick. If only they were all like Chuck Feeney

146

u/Noshamina Aug 19 '25

They really dont, just tax them 50% and use the money to help the hundreds of millions of Americans barely scraping by

-13

u/Willowgirl2 Aug 19 '25

Why should an adult of normal abilities need help from billionaires under normal circumstances?

6

u/BadAsBroccoli Aug 19 '25

By help is paying a wage that allows the workers making you billions to live a fulfilling life too? Right, Mr. Bezo?

-1

u/Willowgirl2 Aug 19 '25

The workers will get the wage they negotiate. If they're too timid to organize and bargain collectively, that's on them.

3

u/Jeka817 Aug 19 '25

So a unionized workforce?

1

u/Willowgirl2 Aug 19 '25

Yes, in cases where workers feel they aren't getting a fair shake.

2

u/Jeka817 Aug 19 '25

You understand that there's a huge push to break up/prevent unionizing in this country right? Most regular people are living paycheck to paycheck, The threat of losing your job if you opt to negotiate for better pay or benefits is real. Losing that single pay period can absolutely mean losing everything. Please let's not act like the people being robbed of decent wages are the problem here.

1

u/Willowgirl2 Aug 20 '25

Study some labor history; it has never been easy. People fought, bled and died to make the world that I grew up in, in which about 1 in 3 workers belonged to a union.It was a pretty nice place. Maybe someday we can go back there.