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return2ozma@lemmy.worldBanned from community to News@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

Zohran Mamdani says 'I don't think we should have billionaires'

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Zohran Mamdani says 'I don't think we should have billionaires'

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return2ozma@lemmy.worldBanned from community to News@lemmy.world · 1 year ago
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Mamdani, the presumptive Democratic nominee to be the next mayor of New York and a self-identified democratic socialist, said Sunday billionaires contribute to inequality.
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  • Gowron_Howard@lemmy.world
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    He’s absolutely right. Billionaires should not exist.

    • AFK BRB Chocolate (CA version)@lemmy.ca
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      And one of the reasons why there’s so much more wealth inequality now is what conservatives have done to the tax code. Take a loot at this chart on the highest tax bracket over time. image

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      Wealth concentration is bad for everyone but the wealthy. https://inequality.org/facts/

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        IDK even they don’t seem happy. Elon seems fucking miserable. I mean, I don’t feel bad for them, but knowing that literally everyone thinks the world would be a better place without you can’t feel great.

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    Wholly agreed. There are no ethical billionaires. Fight me.

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      deleted by creator

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    Damnit Zohran… I can only get sooo hard…

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    Nobody asked me, but I agree with him.

    • FundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Now he can add “Endorsed by PoopSpiderman” on his campaign website.

      • PoopSpiderman@lemmy.world
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        Not a common endorsement.

    • Dagnet@lemmy.world
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      Do you think we should have billionaires?

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  • homes@piefed.world
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    CRY! CRY! CRY!

    SPREAD IT! SPREAD IT FAR AND WIDE!

  • Mistiy@lemmy.zip
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    …and I agree

  • AnitaAmandaHuginskis@lemmy.world
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    Good, I agree.

    He has painted a target on his own back though and he should be careful, lest he gets JFK’d or RFK’d.

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    We shouldn’t. And he thinks that too. Cool.

  • Frenchfryenjoyer (she/her)@lemmings.world
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    I agree with him. there’s no morally good reason to be hoarding that much money

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    He is right.

    Imagine a “billionaire” in the wild: An animal sitting on a vast horde of food that it could never eat while others starved around it … yea, it would not last long.

    Imagine a “billionaire” in a living body. A corporate money making entity would basically be a cancer that had to be removed to save the life of the patient.

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    The super-wealthy are a cancer on society, and just like cancer, they suck up all of the resources while killing the patient.

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    I heard a rumor once that something called ‘greed’ was considered a sin.

    There might be others that are relevant too.

    These ‘sins’ and their opposing ‘virtures’ where considered such because of how they effected the communities influenced by them.

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    I worry the billionaires will send assassins after him. It would cost them so much less than what he’s suggesting.

    • Supervisor194@lemmy.world
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      This is an illustration of why it’s a problem in the first place.

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    Oooooh! He said the thing!

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    Bill Ackman, a billionaire hedge fund manager who has backed President Donald Trump in the past, on Thursday pledged to use his money to bankroll a challenger to Mamdani in the general election.

    Case in point.

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      And how did he get those billions? How many peoples necks did he have to step on to climb his way up. It’s not so much what you do with your billions, it’s how you got them that makes you evil. The only exception to this is probably Bezos ex wife, maybe.

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        “Employees are the rungs on the ladder of success. Don’t hesitate to step on them.” -Rule of acquisition #211

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          Grand Nagus Rom: “We invented elevators for a reason.”

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