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You guys should put in this much effort and hate to the government. Billionaires play very little role in my life, but the government is in every aspect, but for some reason we are focusing on them.
The government is directly controlled by their individual billionaires.
I somewhat agree, but the influence on the government spans much more than billionaires. The powerful do control much of the government, but its also a bunch of assholes that abuse their power.
They are paid to abuse that power, by the billionaires. The billionaires also pay them to keep folks fighting over any topic that keeps the people away from realizing what they are up to. Usually most of the more ridiculous claims from folks at outlets like Fox come right before billionaires cram themselves a tax break into an omnibus bill or repeal some fundamental human right or cut critical parts of your social services and supports.
I agree but its more than just the billionaires. For instance where I live there are no billionaires and the government is still the biggest thorn in my side.
Where do you live?
Idaho. How about you?
For real lol just a nice diversion to distract everyone from the real problem.
or oligarch
Parasitic wealth hoarder, If you're looking for something a little shorter, assholes works.
Plantation Owner
Sometimes I use the term "psychopathic hoarder class" when referring to this group of people.
It is long past time we got over our child-like worship of billionaires.
I never understood people instantly behaving differently the second they smell money in a person. It gets uglier the more they smell. Noone with money will ever deal with them. Never ever.
It's epitome is this cult-like following or even worshipping of silly ass-clowns like musk.
I tried to look as poor as possible when i last dated. Golddiggers quickly leave then. I don't get the followers and i even less get the rich fucks boasting around so they can never trust anyone ever anymore. Great tactics 😁
Indeed, there's nothing inherently exceptional in ~~billionaires~~ wealth hoarders, according to many studies of this phenomenon. They are literally just lucky enough that they managed to get their hands on such a ludicrous amount of money, they really aren't anything special.
I've become personally partial to "landleech".
"dragon"
Not incorrect. Makes them sound way too cool, however.
We might be in need of a Dovahkiin
Too broad. Wealth hoarder describes everyone with a mortgage as well as grandma Sally and her pension plan. Anyone who saves for retirement is a wealth hoarder.
It's not hoarding if it's only a little. Everyone who actually earned it themselves through wage labor is not hoarding.
There are millions of people in the U.S. whose wealth comes from the increase in the property value of their family home. This is unearned wealth.
Of course, you’ll have a hard time convincing most people of that last bit. Which is why billionaires are the more popular enemy rather than the middle class.
What if you just save money for retirement, not property?
You mean by investing the stock market? Or literal cash under the mattress?
Literal cash under mattress
Why not do that? Because of inflation, you lose money doing that. It’s the last resort of someone who has no other options for saving their money, such as low level drug dealers.
And I fucking hate it. It just incentivizes not allowing more housing for those that need it because MuH PrOpErTy VaLuE!!
Fucking greed everywhere...
or oligarch, wait nvm how could i forget only the other has those, silly me how could i forget.
I think it isn't going to be that effective a phrase. People don't understand why having lots of money (hoarding wealth) is a bad thing, necessarily, and it sort of implies that, if they were to just spend it it'd make the initial hoarding fine.
Gotta also focus on the fact that they essentially stole that money from workers through labor exploitation. The bare fact that they got the money to begin with is the problem, not just them holding onto it. If they were to spend it all on horrible capitalist enterprises rather than hoarding it, that'd be even worse. Even if they spent it all on "philanthropic" efforts, that's still worse than the workers having their fair share and the government being able to actually have that money to spend on social programs through taxes.
The problem with this is that if billionaires just sat on their fortunes like a dragon sitting on treasure it would be much better than the way it is now, where they pump their billions into "nonprofits" that try to manipulate society to make it even better for them and worse for normal people.
"Wage slave master"?
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