• ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    You’re describing the sympoms. I was asking about the cause. “Systemic oppression of anyone without wealth” is quite a bold claim.

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      3 months ago

      The cause is literally wealth hoarding. By those being recommended to the guillotine. They didn’t happen by accident.

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        3 months ago

        You’re being quite vague. What is wealth hoarding? Is Elon Musk the richest man in the world because he’s hoarding wealth?

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          3 months ago

          I was giving you the benefit of the doubt but you’re clearly just trolling.

          It is theoretically possible to get a billion dollars morally (by like… Winning multiple lotteries or something) but it’s impossible to remain a moral billionaire when there’s so many people dying from hunger and preventable illness.

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            You do understand that being a billionaire doesn’t mean they have a billion dollars in the bank, right? Wealth is not the same as cash. Elon owns who knows how many companies, and those companies are worth billions. He couldn’t even buy Twitter without external funding because his wealth is tied up in assets. This is the case with every other billionaire or multi-millionaire as well. They’re not hoarding cash in vaults like Scrooge McDuck.

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              Why did you type all that like it makes any difference?

              How do you think a company becomes wealthy? It’s not by paying good wages

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                3 months ago

                I was hoping you would help me undestand your point of view on this but apparently not then. I just keep hearing this constant anti-capitalist sentiment here but when challenged, nobody seems interested in elaborating on what they actually mean by it.