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72% of Americans Say the Rich 'Have Too Much' as GOP Pursues Another Handout for Billionaires
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The survey only involved like 950 people and it only defined it as, "the rich" which seems pretty vague. Given the survey also mentions Bezos and Musk it wouldn't surprise me if that is the group having too much on this survey, not humble millionaires like you and me.
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72% is way too low given how insane the current wealth distribution is. Fully 1/4 of the population have drunk the kool-aid
"I'm going to be rich, soon" they say while they're considering payment plans for a Taco Bell order.
Fucking reruns. I’ve seen this one before.
This is the one that ends with rich people’s heads in baskets.
I wish but I dunno... Occupy Wall St fell apart, and I think without a dedicated leftist group organization this is bound to fail as well. The red scare broke any chance of a labor party in the country for generations, and assuming we survive the current dictator (and I'm somewhat optimistic so let's go with that), I think we'll be back to status quo soon enough. There was a brief period during lockdown where even normies could somewhat tell that money is all just kinda made up, but that's a distant memory at this point.
I think the absolute limit of what we can realistically hope for during a regime change is better health care, and don't get me wrong that would be a huge step in the right direction. But otherwise I don't have much expectation that we'll stop being wage slaves, let alone be eating the rich any time soon.
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friendly reminder, it would take 1,460,714,285 weeks of minimum wage to earn musks net worth. That's 27 million years.
Friendly reminder that even someone making $1M per year today still has less true buying power than a 10 year old child laborer earning $1 per hour in the late 1950s
6% said "the poor have too much"
wat
Are 6% of respondents 12-year-olds that identify as "your dad's a cuck"?
Mentally, about 45 % of the voting population are exactly that.
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The ones who organized the republicans
Are you not aware that poor people have smartphones these days? Back in my day being poor meant having absolutely nothing. I say we take their phones away and their shoes too for good measure. That way they’ll know what true poverty is like /s
The rich have too much by definition, but billionaires in America have an historically obscene amount of wealth. Wealth inequality in today’s America has surpassed pre-Revolution France.
Only 72%?
Be nice if they fucking voted that way.
There was no voting that way, that's the whole damn problem. Neither candidate promised to do anything substantial about wealth inequality.
The other 28% are the rich
Not quite. The other 0.1% are the rich, and the remaining 27.9% are either just stupid or are delusional enough to think that they'll ever become the rich.
There are more poor than rich. We just have to come together. There is strength in numbers.
But muh “dey took er jerbs”!
Numbers are less relevant when the other side has the most sophisticated surveilance system on the planet coupled with the most deadly military.
Key people inside the system have to defect in order to short-circuit that power.
That's what they want you to believe, that it's too hard to get to them. Luigi got Brian walking down the street. They're just people.
Luigi got Brian walking down the street
Allegedly.
That's a key thing to remember here. The assholes of the world are still human at the end of the day, and have the same mortality as the rest of us. The only thing they have on any of us individually is access to resources, but as was said, there's more of us than them, thus why they keep us fighting amongst ourselves.
Damn right! It was about time that we finally get the message (again I might add) and deconstruct the fake boundaries that were put up to divide us.
They may even be able to avoid risk hidden away in their bunkers with well compensated staff, but they don't want that life. They want to be able to go out to dinner and parties and be seen as above the plebs. They don't get to have that while their day to day actions oppress, maim, and kill the masses.
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No way. Americans are proud they are not communists, meaning they complain but ultimately worship the rich
And yet, about half of voting Americans will actively ignore those impulses and choose a party that openly campaigns on tax reductions while it drums up fears surrounding issues they largely agree with (when presented in a non-partisan context) so does it really matter what they say?
45% of voting age Americans didn't even fucking bother to vote
Well, a lot of them decided the genocide half way across the world was more important than the genocide they would help to trigger back home.
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How any didn’t vote, and how many were removed from voter rolls or didn’t have the right ID or were gerrymandered or
And they won't next time either. Stop worrying about them and focus on those who do vote.
Right but not for the reasons you think. I'm not counting on there being a next time at this rate.
This is real defeatist.
There are absolutely people who will not vote no matter what. But folks are being actively disenfranchised and making it easy to vote by a proven secure method has become a political issue because a few who have power wield it without responsibility. Hell, if Election Day was a national holiday (as in, EVERYTHING is closed or by law folks are able to take time off to vote with proof of doing so) you’d probably see a substantial bump alone.