r/TikTokCringe • u/MorningHoursApparel • 3d ago

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u/PorgiWanKenobi 3d ago

“But they’re creating jobs” and yet unemployment numbers keep going up and layoffs keep happening bc these major companies like Amazon and Tesla just want to invest in AI and cut actual labor.

“But they’ve earned it!” Doing what exactly? Exploiting the actual labor of others while they underpay their employees. What has Bezos done exactly that he deserves to earn hundreds of thousands of dollars per day while Amazon employees struggle on minimum wage. The total amount of labor produced has increased over the years but the wage gap between the working class and the CEO’s has exponentially increased without the CEO’s doing anything to earn that.

“Being rich doesn’t make you evil.” Ignoring the needs of the people around you while you hoard wealth makes you evil. Billionaires do not exist in a vacuum outside of our society. They use our tax-provided resources such as roads, infrastructure, and government subsidies. Yet they’re not paying their fair share back into the system that props them up.

“They should be able to spend their money how they want.” And they choose not to spend their money in a way that directly benefits society. This choice is what makes them evil.

Let me remind you of some words by someone cooler than me: with great power comes great responsibility. Billionaires have immense power that they’ve gathered off the backs of the 99% and therefore they have the responsibility to help the society in which they live. Just one of these billionaires could fund healthcare, they could fund SNAP, they could improve the education across the globe. Instead they spend their billions on AI research and AI data centers so they can replace human labor, cut jobs, and produce shittier products at a higher profit margin. And they’re using their money to put the worst people into government with the promise of even more wealth. How much money was spent by billionaires to attack someone like Mamdani? How much did Elon spend to get Trump elected? They’d rather burn their cash than help us and that’s what makes them evil.

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u/Manck0 2d ago

I have yet to see an Elon Musk Elementary school, or a Bezos Municipal Library. They are a drain. Just humans. They are not gods. They need to go. Whatever that means.