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return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 2 days ago

10 Richest Americans Have Gained $700 Billion in Wealth Since Trump Reelection

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10 Richest Americans Have Gained $700 Billion in Wealth Since Trump Reelection

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return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 2 days ago
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10 Richest Americans Have Gained $700 Billion in Wealth Since Trump Reelection | Common Dreams
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"The new American oligarchy is here," said the CEO of Oxfam America. "Billionaires and mega-corporations are booming while working families struggle to afford housing, healthcare, and groceries."
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    Hmmm. And the poor have gotten poorer?

    Almost sounds like theft.

  • 🔰Hurling⚜️Durling🔱@lemmy.world
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    Elon musk isn’t American

  • DERRALEXANO@sh.itjust.works
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    brother of Mario

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    Because they have been doing insider trading.

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    Lol.

    The collapse is inevitable.

    Like, even a small child could sense it at this point.

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      The collapse is inevitable.

      The Vanderbilts and Rockerfellers and JP Morgans weren’t the ones bankrupted by the Great Depression. Elon Musk will not be the protagonist of the next Steinbeck novel. The “collapse” will just be further economic consolidation, until the people being squeezed are willing to resist their own exploitation as a collective unit.

      If the stock market loses 90% of its value tomorrow, all that changes is valuation. The physical capital remains in the hands of the plutocrats as does the command over the bulk of human labor. And the pain we feel will be the consequence of policies they impose, not any real shortfall of goods or dearth of professional services.

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        Which is why we need to invest in non-capitalist owned economies. The more we grow these economies the more resilient the average person can be. Things like the CFNE need to expand https://cooperativefund.org/. More businesses need to be in a circular local economy where people’s needs can be met without the wealthiest getting profits.

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    History is full of former evil empires. USA is number one on that list. It is The most evil society ever build and the world would be bettet without.

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      It is The most evil society ever build

      there are some pretty tight competitors for that spot if we try not to have a recency bias

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    Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

    Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

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    Billionaires shouldn’t exist.

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      Blue shell the rich.

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      And the ones that so should be magnanimous to a fault.

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    “have gained”

    That’s an interesting way to phrase “have stolen”.

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    You mean the pigs have gotten fatter? They will make some good bacon.

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    It doesn’t have to be violent.

    It just needs leaders that believe in the state more than billionaires. Jack Ma and China is a great example of how a state can reign in billionaires without violence.

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      It doesn’t address the issue of billionaires.

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    Hey, nothing to see here, keep bitchin’ at the people on food coupons…

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    Bullets are cheap y’all.

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      You go far enough left and you eventually get your guns back

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        Who doesn’t use guns, exactly?

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      Which ones, I’m genuinely asking

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        22 caliber rimfire rounds are by far the cheapest at around 6 cents per round, but they are pretty under powered and are really only good for target shooting and squirrels IMO. Your best pistocl caliber price is 9mm at 25 cents, and rifle caliber is 5.56/.223 Rem at about 50 cents each. That’s for standard FMJ ball ammo, with prices rising for hollow points, frangibles, TUI, etc.

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          Yeah but a 22 would bpunce off an ice agents forehead, they have thicker skulls

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            Aim for the neck.

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        22 cal

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    Kill them

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