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Vote out every single Republican or whatever right-wing/far-right party you have in your country. Shift the Overton window each time a seat gets flipped.
And don’t forget to get rid of the Dems who have been there. Replace them with actual leftists.
It never trickles down.
At first I thought it was combined. Not “individually each.” And not by twice.
We can of course fix this…just look at French history…
In the past, the owners and/or aristocracy, lived in the general area of workers. Not the case anymore. I would love it if people started Luigi-ing aggressively.
Every 30 FUCKING HOURS, since Covid, another Billionaire is created. That number was halfed before 2020. It means that nearly 500 people became billionaires while pretending they needed to raise prices astronomically to stay solvent. They need to be tried and sentenced harshly. VERY harshly.
The bottom 50% of households have an average net worth of $629?
People who don’t own their homes, cars, etc have no net worth other than what’s in their savings. Most of us are living day to day. It’s not that hard to fathom.
Most of America cannot absorb a sudden expense of 400-1000 dollars.
Taking into consideration the large amount of credit card debt, student loans, mortgages, etc.? It’s plausible. Someone who rents, is living paycheck-to-paycheck, and has maybe a few hundred dollars in credit card debt could be in the “negative”
and they couldn’t just be happy being that rich. They got bored and decided to kill us all. They need to be rounded up and put on trial. Why are people so afraid of rich people ~ Luigi
The “money” used to buy bread is a very practical medium to exchange resources. These figures with too many digits are not real: that “money” is a result of sums of products of virtual values based on credit and speculation. The fact that the same symbol ($) is used for these two very different things sounds like a systemic bug.
You say that but they can and do use that virtual value to buy bread.
Sure they can buy bread, but here’s the catch: it’s like going to the bakery, asking for free bread with the promise that you’ll pay later because you can show 10 digit numbers, even if your pockets are actually empty. So these people practically live on credit because the market value would crash if they sell. At a macro level, 97 % of every dollar is actually debt (credit), mostly created by private banks to feed the system: https://econcurrents.com/2024/08/25/where-does-us-money-come-from-and-where-does-it-go/.
True, but if Elon gave you $1 million in Tesla stock you could still easily sell it, be taxed on it, and use the remainder to buy a lot of bread.
Fuck trickle-down, time to implement the piñata economy.
this appears roughly 1/3 of the third richest person is more wealthy than the bottom 50%
The french really did have a solid way of reminding the upper crust that they were vastly outnumbered by the people they were standing upon…
Remind me. Why are the worlds billionaires all building bunkers? A true mystery.
On Elon Musk, it’s funny because he never put a profit, like tesla isn’t the biggest, X is draining money, his robotics shits are just that: shit, only spacex is relatively successfull, but it’s not on the same level of half trillion dollars.
There isn’t much that he’s done, all of his companies are making less profits (or losing more money if i’m being correct), he is just a jake paul that fakes being a fake intelligent person.
Edit: Deleted my edit, i’m drunk
Yeah, its ironic. The richest man in the world doesn’t have a single* truly profit-making venture under him.
How the bubble around him hasn’t burst yet I don’t know, but it would certainly be a feast for sore eyes.
*Edit: Forgot about SpaceX, which actually has made itself a decent chunk of money - about $15.5 billion in 2025 - but I doubt that alone is capable of propping up his nearly $500 billion personal valuation.
How the bubble around him hasn’t burst yet I don’t know
Corporate welfare.
SpaceX has been phenomenally successful. I don’t think he can be attributed to much of that success. The Falcon 9 handled 95% of launches in 2024. SpaceX has went from non existant to a near monopoly in 23 years while competing against some of the most powerfully connected companies in the world.
I’m not a SpaceX fanboy (I’m a space fanboy). They have done a lot of good for the space industry, while also causing a lot of harm to the scientific space community (earth based observations). I just don’t think you can make an argument that SpaceX is not a successful company.
I agree. Changed the text!
Go home drunk, I’m too Dad
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Apartheid-man’s basically a bubble unto himself.
only spacex is relatively successfull, but it’s not on the same level of half trillion dollars.
Not exactly sure what you’re trying to say here but spacex has tentative plans to ipo at a 1.5 trillion valuation.
Wallstreet is salivating over this because they know they get in first and will make bank when retail investor drive the price to ridiculous levels.
I’m saying that it isn’t so profitable to make anywhere near that amount of money in decades.
I doubt spacex is profitable. The ipo is so they raise cash. They probably burned it all up with the starship failures.
I’m sure on paper it will look profitable same as Tesla looks profitable from certain angles but is actually propped up by the ability to create more shares. He’ll do the same with spacex. Bleed it for his own gains.
I don’t think he actually cares about any of this tech. It’s the only explanation for how he keeps wasting first mover advantage.
Gov gotta have their corporate frontman. Keeps their hands clean.
Just like his paypal buddy, spinning the golden wool of palantir from the unwelcome rot of total information awareness.
And now no pesky joe-public to get in the way, since it’s corporate, not public.
They’re clever like that.
Three bullets could do so much for this country
not really, not by themselves. the billionaires would just be replaced.
Let’s keep ‘replacing’ them until the replacements end
But that would require more than 3 bullets
All I’m hearing is how great this would be for the bullet industry.
Could you imagine how many jobs it would create
now we’re talking!
I’m okay with that.
We gotta start somewhere
that somewhere is unionization. the trick is that we have to go after the system, not individuals.
unless we can kill many billionaires and take over their shit in one fell swoop.
And they are so cheap!
The weird thing is that these people don’t think they’re rich enough and want to extract more money from government and the people, and they simultaneously think that the government gives too much money to poor people.
They race to who will be the first trillionaire. It’s disgusting. Meanwhile children are starving.
It’s bound to happen soon.
And you know what they say, the difference between a trillion and a billion is about a trillion.Surely someone’s already there, quietly, long time ago.
… Who owns the debt?
To these people, there’s no such thing as “enough”. Contentment is not a concept that exists within their minds, only a sociopathic urge to acquire more.
Imagine how rich we’d all be if all the suppressed emancipatory technologies got availed to each and all. No more impoverishment by rents. Free energy. Negligible cost of travel. All space opened to us each and all.
No more impoverishment by rents.
You’ve put your finger on it there.
Damn, when I read this statistic the other day I took it as ‘the bottom half has less then the 3 richest persons’, but in fact, it is ‘three people each have more than the bottom half’ holy shit.
