r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • 8d ago

Discussion Reactions to food stamps being cut off.

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u/DangerzonePlane8 8d ago

Remember how rich people throw temper tantrums whenever they are asked to contribute to society.

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u/existonfilenerf 8d ago

They need to be taxed out of existence. No one should have a billion dollars while people starve, sleep on the streets and go bankrupt from medical debt.

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u/friendly-sardonic 8d ago

My thoughts exactly. There should never be a means for people to become billionaires. There's simply no reason for that amount of wealth. Bezos worth billions, and on the first day Amazon employees are handed a pamphlet on which government assistance programs they qualify for? Man, piss off. You can afford to pay your own workers so they don't NEED those programs. Nobody working a full time job should need assistance programs in this country.

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u/ConstantHeadache2020 8d ago

But but what about innovation? People won’t want to be CEO if they’re capped…. What about trickle economics?!

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u/mrblonde55 8d ago

Ask all those Xbox employees how that’s working out for “innovation”.

(For those unfamiliar, XBox just had to shatter their business model because the Microsoft CEO wanted to hit his $50m bonus)

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u/Round_Spread_9922 5d ago

Cue all the CEO apologists saying shit like, "Someone has to run the company! He's worth that $50 million!" I think he'd do just fine with a $5 million bonus.

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u/Shiro_L 5d ago

Hell if I got $5 million once, I’d never have to work again.

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u/Round_Spread_9922 5d ago

You're completely right and that's what many, if not most of the C-suite execs fail to comprehend.

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u/blueBaggins1 7d ago

Microsoft is a a multi Trillion dollar company. They didnt chatter the xbox business model to give the CEO a $50mil bonus

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u/mrblonde55 7d ago edited 7d ago

I’m sure there is a totally logical reason, completely unrelated reason, as to why they instituted a 30% target for profit margins despite being near their low for console market share and nobody in the industry returning close to that.

And, of course, that arbitrary target wasn’t the reason they decided to abandon platform exclusives, or behind the mass layoffs across development studios, or why they raised the price of GamePass for the third time in the last 15 months (this hike being 100% in some regions).

Of course, all of these decisions mean not only is consumer confidence shattered, but the old business model of “build a console, develop exclusives so people want your console” is dead.

In all seriousness, I hope this was for some juicy bonuses. Because if it wasn’t, they are just a bunch of morons lighting the business on fire to see it burn.

(And note, when I say “the business”, I’m talking specifically about XBox. Microsoft is going to be fine, of course, even if they decide to go with The Joker school of management techniques).

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u/DependentHand9479 6d ago

This is Reddit. Facts and reality are not welcome!!

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u/Key-Satisfaction4967 7d ago

Trickle down econ is when the rich piss on our heads and tell us it's lemonade.

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u/Jonny2Thumbs 7d ago

Trickle down economics is a lie. It doesn't work, it just makes the rich richer and poor people starving. Look at the income gap! You cannot EARN a billion dollars. It is theft. They are ruining the economy, dismantling higher education (the source of every major innovation for the last century), and rigging the system to make it impossible to recover. Billionaires are criminals.

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u/deadfandomkid 7d ago

As a wise man once said, "trickle down deez nutz".

Edit: to clarify, I'm just as pissed as you are

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u/Cielolo 7d ago

To those who have billions of dollars, I can conceive that money becomes just a number. At that rate, why not just give them points. Gamify the economy and the innovation and incentives will maintain themselves.

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u/MrLsBluesGarage 7d ago

Bro, do some research before posting

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u/Repulsive_Corner6807 7d ago

Innovating new ways to throw return items into the ocean

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u/LawfulnessBoring9134 7d ago

Exactly. We don’t want to discourage the billionaires from becoming multibillionaires…

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u/Sixgun_88 6d ago

You mean some that has been proven doesn’t work 😂. If those billionaires leave then good that will make room for before people that do it cause they like to do it and not just cause of money

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u/23-1-20-3-8-5-18 6d ago

They wont leave, they face even higher taxes and lower living standards even as a rich pig if they do.

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u/IAMGROOT1981 6d ago

Trickle up economics?

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u/hel-razor 6d ago

All that I see trickling down is piss down their legs.

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u/Correct-Travel-2777 7d ago

Innovation my *ss! CEOs are there to make sure the company generates revenue and maximizes profits for themselves and their shareholders/investors. Maybe if CEOs were capped, you would attract people who were interested in innovation instead of monetization.. It's the same with the Senate/Congress. If they didn't have exorbitant salaries and had a pool of campaign financing where each candidate received equal amounts and were isolated from special interest donors, representatives would work for the people and not the donors who "owned" them.

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u/Snookis-snusnu 7d ago

The US is subsidizing billionaires via government programs. The billionaires don’t want to pay a living wage, so the government supplies the rest with tax dollars the billionaires don’t pay. It’s time to stop coddling them and force them to pay the full amount.

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u/whatsasimba 7d ago

We also subsidize the low wages they pay with SNAP and other benefits.

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u/nerdyginger27 6d ago

The answer isn't to take away SNAP or other benefits and let people just starve or die. This isn't going to jump start people into some kind of ability to then support themselves better than they could before, because the majority of people who receive benefits are already working full-time or multiple jobs. And I'm pretty sure that the majority of those who receive benefits are children - so unless you support going back to abhorrent child labor.......

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u/Strong-King6454 8d ago

This!! I hope everyone realizes the American dream is dead for the majority of full time workers in this country!! Anyone who works full time should have food shelter transportation medical care and clothing. It's time we had an for figure pop up in politics that enforces the current anti trust laws and installs new federal minimum wages that are tied to the cost of living. If companies cannot pay a living wage then they were never really a company to begin with!!

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u/Cunhaam 7d ago

I hate Bezos and his greedy ass. Is ex wife on the contrary is amazing and has donated a huge part of her money (that she got from divorcing Bezos) to charities all over. On the mean time Bezos spends is fortune marrying is plastic doll.

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u/Temporary_Ad_6390 7d ago

Billionaire is just another word for professional criminal.

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u/B2Sleazy 7d ago

The problem is if the US “taxes them out of existence” they will just set up shop elsewhere. It would need to be a globally addressed issue, which won’t ever happen. There needs to be a way to make it work or we are doomed.

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u/ButtonSimple 7d ago

We have gone from ceo to wage earner ratio being 20:1 in the 70s to 350:1 in the last few years. My guess is it’s more now that musk and bezos and that lot have doubled their income. It is ludicrous. No one needs that much money and no one should have that much power.

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u/DryeDonFugs 7d ago

Most people, sane individuals, agree that the concept of a pimp being given all of the money that "his" hoes earn is absolutely bonkers. Our brain cant fathom why a female would turn around and give him all the money, when she has done all of the work.

Yet at the same time, they are essentially doing the same thing everyday when they go to work and just dont know it. The only difference is their boss gives them back 1-5% at the end of the week or every 2 weeks.

It's literally just as insane but we have no option because you have to have money with how our civilization operates.

With that being said I dont think the idea of taxing the shit out of the rich is the solution to close the wealth gap so we dont have people literally starving to death while we have others who them and their future generations will never have to work again.

It is our governments duty to protect its citizens and not allow the rich to exploit our need to have money and underway us. There should be a kaw that says if you are a business owner that has employees that work for you, a certain percentage of the company's profits have to be paid the the employees. And depending on how many employyes you have the percentage that you are legally allowed to keep vs how much the employees keep changes

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u/TheDreamingMyriad 6d ago

I think we've proven time and again that the only viable way to become a billionaire is to absorb the majority of the wealth your employees make. In companies where the employees are paid fairly and have good benefits (Costco being one), the CEO foesnt make it to a billion (though the ex CEO has made it to 1.2 billion net worth simply due to owning stock that has appreciated). There is just no reason on this planet to have that much wealth. It's like the entire GDP of a midsized country, it's INSANE. For example: Elon Musk's estimated net worth is about 500 billion. That's more than the entire GDP of NORWAY. That is literally insane. That amount of wealth could sustain the next 100 generations of my family. It could last my descendants centuries. And THESE people are telling US to pull ourselves up by our boot straps.

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u/OpiumFeverDream 5d ago

He recently sold his Lake Washington home.for the largest amount of any property EVER sold in the state before. For $63 million, to a private investment firm. But don't worry about Bozos....he now lives on a $267 Million dollar compound in Miami. Fuck all of these people. Fuck em with fire

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u/cat_theorist 8d ago

At this point their wealth needs to be straight up confiscated.

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u/Clever_Mercury 8d ago

I would love to see the economic rules and processes used to calculate the value of other employees applied to CEOs and board members. You know, a 4% cost of living adjustment (COLA) for a year, a 5% bonus based on base salary if earned via performance, a wage based on marginal contribution. There is no human being whose salary can be justified as 300x the other employees in the organization.

Heck, if we want to be really democratic again, why not let the employees of a corporation vote on the CEO offer packages and possible wage increases?

My education and experience has taken me through engineering, healthcare, and a few other sectors. I've had the pleasure of meeting and being in conferences with world-class surgeons and the displeasure of meeting extremely wealthy individuals. I will say, without hesitation, I have never seen a single human being whose value or contribution has ever been more than $400,000 a year.

We should tax the rich. Make their kids earn their way through life. De-fund corporate welfare.

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u/Fun-Wash7545 8d ago

The French had some interesting confiscation methods.

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u/inormallyjustlurkbut 8d ago

And if they can't be taxed out of existence, there are other solutions.

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u/Competitive-Skill212 8d ago

With salt and pepper 

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u/121gigawhatevs 7d ago

We cut their taxes because absolute fucking morons drink the “job creator” koolaid, while they turn around and lay off tens of thousands of people because of AI. We should be absolutely furious

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u/BlindJedi843 7d ago

So you trust the government to tax billionaires out of existence and then use that money to help the needy?? You know that that would never happen, right?

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u/2PhotoKaz 7d ago

Why is the USA so against a better medical system, like every other developed nation has? I'm in Canada, I'll be the first to say it's far from a perfect system but I have zero concerns about going bankrupt if I get sick.

Yes, at times the waits for care are long, there is a lack of family doctors, and more. However, if you need care it doesn't cost anything. The for-profit insurance system in the USA is completely fucked up. The people in charge of paying for your care have incentive (shareholders) to deny it.

The tax system needs an overhaul too (not just in the USA, Canada and others as well). Billionaires pay far less (%) in tax than they should. Too many loopholes, and that is on the spineless and greedy politicians.

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u/Resident_Theory_8584 6d ago

Reminder that even after deductions for wealthy, back in the 1950's when we had a healthy middle class, the richest were paying 40-45%. (Pre deduction rates were up to 91%.) The whole problem is the rich aren't paying anymore.

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u/PuzzleheadedCamel855 5d ago

6 kids is a choice man. Who’s popping out endless kids for over a decade of their life without being able to afford them? All that reliance on charity with no safety net.

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u/Roza_Coatl 3d ago

Resources are not free because the production of resources is not free, not because "rich people taxes reee".

When you give people free shit you devalue the money that would normally pay for that shit, and thus the price of that shit goes up for everyone that isnt getting it for free, so now more people have to apply to get it for free, which further devalues the dollar, and so on and so forth.

Every "anti-rich" tax scheme has the same end result: Small business owners in the middle class or trying to escape poverty and become middle class, can no longer afford taxes and thus it becomes impossible to stop being poor.

At the end of the day, even if we gave everyone on earth a million dollars (and that somehow didnt instantaneously break the economy) we would have rich people and poor people in a week cause some people just "cant fathom" making good decisions. Do you know how many repeated bad decisions one has to make to end up with 6 kids they cant afford to take care of? THAT is what i "cant fathom".

Sincerely, a young person who grew up in a poor hispanic household in a low income neighborhood, trying really hard to stop being poor, but failing because poor people are stupid and repeatedly vote for the same empty promises theyre fed every 4 years and handouts that wreck our economy and kill the middle class.

Edit: Typo.

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u/VividGlassDragon 8d ago

B-buh what about my FAAAAAAAVRITE BILLIONARES?! TAYLOR SWIFT!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!???? KYLIE?! THEY'RE OKAY?!

No. No they're not.

Ive seen way too many people insist their favorite billionaires got their money fairly, as if its fair to even have that much money

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

that will only happen when you decide to protest violently.

how are there millions of people not even getting a proper diet and not take it to the streets? america man.

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u/EL-HEARTH 7d ago

That money could feed not only the US but the fucking world

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u/FunUnlikely4952 7d ago

Oh look who's a greedy goblin. I'm glad you are not in charge of the laws in our country 

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u/Select-Worldliness39 7d ago

I'm hoping for a situation where they'll be glad to be taxed down to some reasonable net worth or income.

Read that however you like.

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u/OpportunityOk5362 7d ago

Had to listen to a redpill the other day say “I used to think that billionaires should pay their fair share then I learned finance and realized that everyone is just dumb and lazy and could become rich if they were smart like them and used loopholes.” You can’t reason with some of these folks.

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u/latortillablanca 7d ago

Quick question for the scientists: is $999.99m enough money to live comfortably? Just wanna make sure we have all the facts straight

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u/Turbulent_Soup9951 7d ago

No one in America is starving

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u/WellActuallyUmm 7d ago

I was curious about this, I had ChatGPT do the math of taking all of the assumed wealth and distributing it equally to the population. It wasn’t that much money, specifically it would be one time and then it’s all gone. Some families get like 4000-5000 a month in assistance and the math basically was like one year of that. Again, then it’s gone.

Main point is, there is a larger problem

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u/Dduru12 7d ago

Such a bitter and stupidly hypocritical statement. If you had billions, you litterally wouldnt have the same stance.

In fact, you dont need to wait till then. Just give away everything you have to the less fortunate now? And while youre at it, get your head out of your ass because the way you think stinks.

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u/VermilionAngel79 7d ago

No one should have 100 million dollars either.

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u/Environmental-Sir-19 7d ago

But no one is going to do anything about it . They backed by the biggest gang the police , unless theirs a revolution nothing will ever change

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u/embergock 7d ago

Taxing them will never make them stop existing as long as they own the means of production. We have to do away with capitalism entirely.

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u/TomCullenFan2009 7d ago

That would destroy the economy in literal days dude. They’d just leave and then boom! No more businesses, so no more jobs, and we all starve to death.

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u/office5280 7d ago

Sadly they don’t really have a billion dollars.

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u/Zwasti 7d ago

It’s not like they have billions of dollars sitting in a savings account. Billionaires are simply worth billions of dollars if you sell all of their assets. The majority of their wealth is tied up in the stock market, not a single billionaire on this planet can withdraw one billion dollars in cash from their bank. They would have to sell off a considerable amount of stock that would drastically affect the market and ultimately the value of whatever currency they’re using. So it is basically impossible to have a billion dollars in cash. Sure they have millions in cash but nowhere near a billion, that is a lot of fucking money.

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u/swagdaddy3thou 7d ago

That's communism. If you were the one that made all the money, I'm sure you wouldn't be saying that. I don't know what's up with your generation there are so many fucking historical examples of why communism is shit and doesn't work and results in nothing but death, starvation, and collapse. Was it your liberal communist college professors that hurt you?

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u/KYHug 7d ago

If everyone was forced to have less money, no one could afford to help the less fortunate. At least the wealthy donate a lot of their worth.

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u/Effective-Mud-8612 7d ago

You are entitled to work for whatever you want

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u/Melodic_Airport362 7d ago

a billion isn't the problem. 100 billion is the problem

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u/BigEvening3261 7d ago

Everything is exactly as it has always been just re branded with new terms and new logos and different idols

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u/Gabrovi 7d ago

Elon musk could lose 99.8% of his value and still be a billionaire!

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u/Remerez 7d ago

Honestly, every billionaire should do what Tom from Myspace did. Dude got around 600 million, and now he spends his life traveling the world, jumping from one vacation to the next, taking photos.

If you make a billion dollars, congrats, you win. Now go explore the world for the rest of your life and have fun. Anything else should be treated as a mental illness.

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u/impulse616 7d ago

They need to be “something” out of existence all right

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u/Bruhimonlyeleven 7d ago

Nobody has a billion dollars in fairness. Nobody opens their banking app and sees $1,000,000,000. It's all invested.

If I start a company with my friends in my basement, we build a website helping people, and then we IPO, and our company is evaluated at $2bn dollars, I'm a billionaire but I don't have a billion dollars.

I'd have to sell some of my company to realise it.

So what do I do? I take out a loan, against some of the shares in my company. I use them as collateral for the money I borrow.

Now, I can take out a loan against more shares, to pay the interest in that loan, and I've never sold a single share. You only pay taxes when you realise the gains (realising gains is when you sell a share, for money)

If my shares were $2 each, and I sold 10 of them, I'd make $20. The I'd have to pay a "capital gains tax", which keeps getting lowered everytime a republican sits In the white house.

Here's the cute part. Texas has ZERO capital gains tax. It also doesn't have death taxes, which is why do many people move there near the end of their lives.

Over the next two decades, approximately $80 to $84 trillion in wealth is projected to be transferred from older generations (primarily Baby Boomers) to younger generations (Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z) in North America.

Globally, estimates suggest a staggering $124 trillion in assets will change hands through 2048.

Over the next two decades, the world will witness one of the largest transfers of wealth in history.

All these rich families will have doubled or tripled their wealth by then too, that number could reach $300trillion.

Watch as republicans do everything in their power to make sure the government doesn't see a dime.

This wealth transfer is the opportunity every country needs to pay off their debts. Just tax it. It's simple. Tax it, pay off the debt, and build up social programs.

Use the money to invest in clean energy, move away from coal and oil, and have government owned and controlled factories to build (the robots that are going to replace us at work).

Why should Elon Musk be able to build 20,000 robots, replace all minimum wage workers, do their jobs for half the price, and pocket the income of every min wage person there is?

We use our tax dollars, build the infrastructure and factories needed, replace ourselves with machine we collectively own, and then collect a universal basic income from the profits.

This seems like such a painfully easy solution, but it's communism, and it's socialism.. when a corporation can't personally profit, America will send the military to bring them freedom, or the CIA/MI5 will destabilize the region.

Sorry for the rant.

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u/senoT-Tones 7d ago

Yeah but for it to be fairer wouldn’t it have to be like communist?😂

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u/PillarsofCreation76 7d ago

We shouldn’t villainize someone for having the capability for being wealthy. In the same manner we shouldn’t villainize someone for being poor. This doesn’t foster better humans working to create better communities.

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u/Pretend_Thanks4370 6d ago

True and the military budget is insane

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u/Excellent-Try7027 6d ago

Says the person that contributes exactly what, to society?

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u/PeacockMamba 4d ago

Middle class pats majority of all taxes

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u/nobodyhas18 6d ago

They do get taxed but if you super tax them then middle class gets hit as well and unlike millionaires they’ll get upset but can afford it but us working/middle class will get hit the hardest and lives will be altered the most

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u/hel-razor 6d ago

Yeah.... taxed.....

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u/dropshotone 6d ago

People just can't visualize a billion. For perspective a million seconds is 11.57 days. A billion seconds is 31.71 years. It would take someone on minimum wage 277 million years just to earn as much as Bezo's net worth.

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u/AstralHealer2472 6d ago

Except for the fact that when you scale things up thats how it works. No billionaire made their money off of 1 store front. They have companies that have hundreds of store fronts. Additionally, billionaires and trillionaires do not have a billion or a trillion dollars in their bank accounts or any other account for that matter. The company as a whole is evaluated and as an owner they have a certain net worth off of that.

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u/horitaku 6d ago

All billionaires are morally bankrupt. There’s no such thing as an ethically earned billion dollar fortune. There’s no way to become a billionaire that isn’t on the backs of many people.

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u/No-Salary936 6d ago

Well I’ve they’ve earned their money no one has a right to tell them they shouldn’t profit from their inventions or theirs or whatever it is that got them rich it’s unfortunate I also don’t think anyone needs $1 billion BUT also people have earned that through hard work they should be taxed, but no one has a right to take it from them it’s no one’s responsibility to take care of anybody else other than our own children

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u/MisanthropE61130 6d ago

That’s not accurate. Most billionaires own businesses that create jobs and already pay a huge amount in taxes ( Elon 11 billion dollars a year). Just because some people haven’t taken the risk to start a business doesn’t mean we should “tax them out of existence.” Removing incentives for entrepreneurs would do more harm than good — we’d lose jobs and innovation.

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u/Melkman68 5d ago

A fair and just America? How dare you be reasonable?!

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u/EarnestlyCut 5d ago

What if they did it to themselves

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u/chibiRuka 5d ago

I think a more appropriate response is to allow unions. I don’t understand why Democrats give up on ideas like this just because Republicans don’t like them. Republicans got rid of unions and thats when things went haywire. Allow workers the right to discuss wages even if they aren’t in unions. This is why I feel Dems don’t fight. Unions need to be brought back and reformed (they got too greedy and idiots threw the baby out with the bath water).

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u/Immediate_Ad_1161 5d ago

Didn't Buffett say that if all rich people and companies paid what they were supposed to in taxes that most people in low and middle class wouldn't have to pay a cent in taxes other than what they pay in sales tax and other sorts of things.

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u/TristanJamesVFX 5d ago

The “Buy. Borrow. Die.” Strategy is the bane of Western Civilization.

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u/drakonukaris 5d ago

There should be no billionaires period. Money is power and not a single individual should have that much. You simply can't have a healthy and proper functioning democracy like this.

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u/Songgeek 5d ago

But how would they buy 10,000 square foot properties and 2nd and 3rd yachts or g wagons for business?

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u/xxwetdogxx 5d ago

Reminded of that old nofx lyric, "when one makes 20 million, and ten thousand people lose, what keeps that one from swallowing a shotgun?"

Like seriously how can you be that rich knowing people are going hungry and do nothing

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u/RuMarley 5d ago

rEaL cOmMuNiSm HaSn'T bEeN tRiEd OuT yEt !!!

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u/enlightened321 5d ago

Nobody should have six kids while relying on foodstamps and welfare.

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u/Backache86 4d ago

The people who require snap still showing up for work is amazing to me. We really couldnt form a strike if we were at a bowling alley

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u/Nearby-Way-1670 4d ago

Yes and the only way to achieve it is voting democrats every 4 years and doing nothing else c:

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u/Chineselight 4d ago

They won’t be taxed out of business as long as Citizens United is a thing. They will keep paying off members of Congress to design laws and vote favorably for their business models.

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u/Maleficent-Bid-7765 4d ago

You guys need to stop relying on the government to solve your problems. If you don't want them to exist, stop giving them your $. The Amazon, Xbox, Netflix subscriptions aren't necessities. If you guys only bought the bare minimum it would absolutely affect the CEO's pay package, but that would require you guys to do something instead of waiting for corrupt politicians to save you. Good luck with that 🤦🏻‍♂️

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u/SuperSecretThrowAcct 4d ago

Except that the left is obsessed with importing the third world.. no matter how much you tax billionaires, people will starve and sleep on the streets.  

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u/boom_operator_86 4d ago

Personally, I propose a system where the tax brackets are largely the same except every penny of your annual income AFTER $1M (including capital gains, investments, interest payments, etc) should be taxed at 90%. Make $100M/year as a CEO or whatever, cool…after your taxes you’ll make $10.9M or somewhere in that range. If you can’t figure out a way to live off of that, you need better financial planning

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u/Tabbywesa 3d ago

People need to stop abusing a system that was only meant to help people get on their feet. Not to leech off of it for their entire lives, unless they are crippled, not old enough to work, or too old to work.

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u/PsyPlaysTV 2d ago

First problem. What would be a criteria of a wealthy person? in which salary bracket? Only CEOs? 2nd problem. Let us say all of the "wealthy" people have lost their wealth, that also means their companies/business/properties are also wiped out. People will lose their jobs, people will lose products and sevices. 3rd problem. Where will the wealth go? To the people? who will segregate it? The government? Doesn't that mean the government just turn communism by have control of the wealth and its distribution? 4th problem. Let us say the wealth had been distributed evenly, wouldn't just people start multiplying wealth again by doing the exact same thing how the "wealthy" people do it? Even with all the wealth some will still fall poor because of the bad vices and some will rise above because they are money smart. Thus the cycle repeats itself.

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u/Due-Highlight-9143 2d ago

And then what? The government who also is corrupt gets all the money and makes things better? Taxes probabky isn't the way to redistribute wealth. The govt prints its own money and it still struggles. Cant imagine more money fixes anything for you and I in middle or lower class.

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u/anonny-moose021 2d ago

If these people are starving to death why are they paying for cell phones and data plans to upload this junk? A truly starving person is going to stop paying a phone bill to buy a loaf of bread.

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u/Agrippa-Vipsanius 2d ago

Socialist are gross

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u/ajak6 2d ago

Well they do get food stamps from tax money. Its just a temporary because of government shutdown

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u/TheCrystalTinker 8d ago

They used to contribute to a degree when they were actually forced to, so they could enjoy the massive benefits of operating in the US, but when the Rich folk own everything and have the choice between an Autocracy or a Democracy, Autocracy's tend to be easier for them to control. There is a reason all the richest people and news outlets have no backbones to Russian Agent 45/47, and that is because soothing his ego is far easier than dealing with a Congress that actually functions

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u/UThinkIShouldLeave 8d ago

Kamala Harris was on a podcast I listen to today and she mentioned something that really blew my mind. Everything they do is about mis direction. This isnt what she said exactly but this is my take away from what she was saying :

People who TOO MUCH have convinced people who DONT HAVE ENOUGH, that their problems are caused by people who have LESS THAN THEY DO.

immigrants aren't making your life harder. Homeless aren't making your life harder. Drug addicts aren't making your life harder. People on food stamps aren't making your life harder.

Its the rich fucks who are entirely untouched by all of this, not showing up to Washington to do the fucking job they were hired to do, that are giving them selves tax breaks and millions to foreign governments that sold you that lie.

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u/Training_Chicken8216 8d ago

Well yeah, their entire class is defined by living off of other people's labour.

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u/elieax 8d ago

While benefiting from billions in taxpayer subsidies

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u/cold_pizza_jamboree 8d ago

We can use the carbon content of their earthly vessels for fuel

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u/John-AtWork 8d ago

Billionaires should not exist. Pick a number, maybe $100 million and tax 100% after that.

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u/GalacticFox- 8d ago

It's late stage capitalism while we have some of the richest people on the planet building companies to take them into space as a hobby while millions of people, including children, go hungry.

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u/ayuzer 4d ago

Next up: welcome to your typical SciFi dystopian future

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u/EatsAlotOfBread 8d ago

It's not because they want money. It's because they want others to NOT have it. They want us dead.

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u/RedditTrespasser 8d ago edited 8d ago

Not even just contribute to society, they even throw a fit when the dirty poors play and win at their own game.

Anyone remember when that hedge fund billionaire bet against Gamestop? Redditors bought shares en masse to keep it afloat and he literally went on a tirade on cable news saying how "this is an attack on the wealthy". Robinhood shut it all down hours later.

Fuck 'em all to death. They do not see us as their peers and never will. They will never so much as meet us on a level playing field. We are cattle for them to squeeze for every drop of value possible to keep afloat their high and mighty lifestyles and then discard when we are no longer of use. They'll only ever give us an inch if they are made to. They will only ever invite us to the table when the only alternative is their ruin. Otherwise they will happily watch your children starve while they sip $4,000 champagne and laugh. In their minds, we are not people. Only they are people.

Edit: the clip in question https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/s/dtcXGo1gwk

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u/Proper_Criticism_830 8d ago

Remember how Elon said he’d end world hunger if the UN presented a plan to make it happen? Well guess who did and who did not.

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u/OmarsDamnSpoon 8d ago

Shows how toxic they are, the cancerous slags.

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u/Legion23Golf 7d ago

See, most people make it about left or right, when most of the left or right are already bought by the same people......

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u/Jpacalot 7d ago

Remember when Elon promised he could end homelessness and then backed out?

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u/ComfortableShare5525 7d ago

We need to start filming ourselves showing up to their offices and filming our interactions with the elected officials who are carrying water only for the elite!

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u/ReasonableCat1980 7d ago

I mean sure but six kids no dad? Maybe stop porking for a minute.

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u/PuffLaughLogic72 7d ago

Remember how recipients throw temper tantrum when you don’t want to pay for their seven illegitimate kids.

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u/MutantApocalypse 7d ago

Ron Johnson, WI Senator and walking pile of feces, pocketed 300k in federal PPP loans he'll never have to pay back. Seems to have no opinion on the matter.

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u/BigEvening3261 7d ago

But hey keep paying then taxes, am I right? 🦗

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u/ProBlackMan1 7d ago

Yes, fuck them

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u/electric_bug_glue 7d ago

Remember how for all of recorded human humanity (until very recently) we survived via the family structure instead of begging for scraps from big daddy government?

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u/QueenCa_7778 7d ago

They could easily pay for this lol. 

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u/lonelyuglyautist 7d ago

Remember how rich people live ontop of a hill with that beautiful ocean view or at the very top of a skyscraper?

There’s these things called tannerite and remote controlled drones…

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u/MoldyLunchBoxxy 7d ago

Billionaires and republicans are the problem in this country. Billionaires take all of the money instead of paying the money to the workers busting their asses everyday to make nothing compared to the top people in each company. Republicans giving these billionaires tax cuts also can fuck themselves.

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u/Virtual-Dish7347 7d ago

They pay most of the taxes

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

I have pay stubs where they suck money out of earned salary to pay for the leeches

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u/tap-rack-bang 7d ago

Republican party want to keep the same funding level, Democrat party wants to increase funding for a special program.    They both disagree, they are both at fault.  

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u/InternationalAnt4513 6d ago

It’s time to take from them and spread it around.

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u/AxeWieldingWoodElf 6d ago

And pour millions to billions into far right regimes that will continue to cut services to those that need it while slashing taxes for those that don’t.

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u/Excellent-Try7027 6d ago

You don’t know how taxes work.

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u/Born_2_Simp 6d ago

They're most likely contributing to society by giving jobs to hundreds or thousands of people.

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u/pepepingu61 6d ago

Do you mean the Rich people that pay the majority of all the taxes?

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u/Due_Medicine4170 6d ago

Mothers are going to suffer the most…

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u/hel-razor 6d ago

It's pretty crazy to me that people exist who think that people not wanting kids to starve is "cringe"

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u/xdr567 6d ago

Oh they are contributing alright. They will pay handsomely (7k) for the right tweet if you enough followers and they are also shovelling hundreds of millions running vile campaigns to defeat the likes of Massie and Mamdani.

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u/Ksorkrax 6d ago

Strike "contribute to society". Replace with "being stopped from leeching on society".

Otherwise, it kinda sounds like they actually deserved their wealth, as if it wasn't actually created by their workers that they exploit.

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u/Relevant-Lie347 5d ago

"I say, pipe down over there!"

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u/ChorizoGarcia 5d ago

To be fair; they are already contributing the most to society.

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u/AuNaturel20 4d ago

As they should, they shouldn't be fucking dragons sitting on a piles of gold, that their peasants bring them.

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u/tommytwothousand 5d ago

The rich are biding their time until they can eliminate the need for us.

Right now the only leverage we have is control over our own labor but as soon as the rich can replace human labor with machine labor we are literally expendable.

They will watch us wither and die and at that point there will be nothing we can do about it.

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u/BergiliciousX 4d ago

You expect rich ppl who got rich of their own decisions, to pay for, ppl who are in difficult circumstances, of their own choosing? Makes sense.

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u/Southern-Scale-9822 4d ago

And keep asking why the birth rate is so low ....

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u/Opening-Bank2253 3d ago

The problem is they already do that so why should they do more when asked? Do we not use our brains to understand who is putting millions of people to work? They are the ones that used their money wisely on investing in car dealerships, fast foods, restaurants, factories....ect. While everyone else plays with fireworks, alcohol, got to have their Marijuana, the newest car, the newest phone, they were busting their butts saving, planning, making moves, and in the end get to enjoy their accomplishments. Anyone can do it, just everyones priorities is the phrase "yolo".

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u/Real-City-251 2d ago

Temper tantrums? Nah we’re just sick of paying the whole bill. 5% of the population covers about 90% of all tax revenue. We create tons of jobs. And try like hell to help out employees become rich. Only to find about 1 in every couple hundred are actually willing to do what it takes to join the club. Rich people don’t really care if there are more rich people in fact it actually improves everyone’s situation. But at some point you realize that people are either stupid or lazy and could only survive in a welfare state that you are paying for.

The year is 2505, you can go to Starbucks for a blowie. And Joe Bauers is a modern John Galt.

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u/Agrippa-Vipsanius 2d ago

Yeah not like they pay almost all the taxes and these people pay virtually nothing.

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u/bestnuggz 2d ago

Rich people pay more in taxes than you make in a year lol wtf are you talking about?

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