Trickle down is a political term. Economists know that wealth trickles up. It is only moved back down with taxes. Non-economists have a saying for this, “the rich get richer”. Economists have a formula for this: r > g
High capacity pump up, and a trickle down.
To get a real trickle down effect, you’d need to tax them and watch the tears trickle down.
How about off with their heads since they’ll just find ways to dodge taxes?
Yup. Only trickle I wanna hear is the blood of billionaires
They got the bomb we got the guillotine
There Lemmy goes inciting violence again. Why is it considered okay if it is the right kind of subversion? 99.9% of people are rational but that leaves millions that take this as a calling.
Because it is okay.
This is what convinces people that Lemmy has a bad community fyi.
I just don’t think we need billionaires.
So you kill them?! Is this how you solve all of your problems?
Of course not! And I’d settle for asset seizure.
It isn’t like billionaires constantly ruin the life’s of people and are only in the position they are by stepping over the corpses and suffering of others OH WAIT
Just FYI: Elon musk inherited his wealth literally from an emerald mine. Jeff Bezos is known for his current atrocities against his employees. Bernard Anault is in kahoots with genocidal dictators. You don’t become a billionaire without violating human rights.
Its the only thing that works
If murder is the only thing that works for people like you, don’t be surprised when it’s what you receive in return with the backing of the state.
You really don’t understand how self-defense works, do you? What did you have in mind?..Begging?
Is a specific billionaire actively threatening your life with physical violence? I don’t think you understand how self defense works.
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Just rid them of all their money. 100%
What are you talking about? As someone in the middle class it’s been nothing but golden showers for me.
I told you, when i’m finished, you can have what’s left!
Proceeds to throw up on the floor and continues eating.
Let’s stop pretending Ronald Reagan could do anything but read a script
Wealth can only be obtained by taking wealth from others and the easiest way is taking from the unwealthy.
Why do they call themselves unwealthy if they aspire to get wealthy? 🤔
I think I feel a trickle but I think it’s just piss.
Such a bad analogy. Only slightly better if he’d freeze most of it, and sell a tiny part at an inflated prize due to the scarcity.
He has more in the freezer that he also won’t share ( ͡❛ ︹ ͡❛)
He also owns all of the grocery stores, food distributors, trucking companies, farms, laborers, and politicians to remove safety laws and taxes concerning all of those, for a better analogy.
But I want it NOW
Hey, at least it’s not the R Kelly trickle down economics.
Denis Villeneauve demonstrates it here
Any minute now!
Remember when Obama’s government made the Bush Tax Cuts permanent?
Congress, while Obama was President, made the tax cuts for poor and middle class people permanent. The tax cuts for the rich were always permanent.
What year?
It won’t “trickle down”. You need to actually work hard.
Lmao I bet the billionaires are working so fuckin hard stealing people’s money.
No shit, numbnuts. None of us are getting our fair share.
What, in your mind, does “working hard” look like? Do you think the average lower- and middle-class adult doesn’t already work hard? Especially harder than they did 20, 40, and 60 years ago? Can you name a time when you think people worked harder than they do today to achieve the same level of comfort and happiness? Do you have to go all the way back to pre-agricultural times?
People in the depression definitely worked harder than people do now. Jobs were like “selling tomatoes from a cart” and “guy who sands the paint off old boxes to sell them as new ones”.
The 60s and 70s were a time of unprecedented increase in standard of living for many people in the US. You could see the Rolling Stones live for like $5, and pay for a car (in full) with a part time job. We are not going to see that again, so don’t compare life now to that.
Translation: “boots are delicious! I love licking ‘em!”
