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[-] aceshigh@lemmy.world 8 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

From the perspective of those who have a lot of money, what’s the problem with that? My wealthy friends always vote r because they want to pay less taxes. Thats their only motive. This selfishness needs to be manipulated.

Edit- thinking deeper. The problem is also that they’re not taking things seriously. They believe it’ll work out… by itself… in a little while. That’s not how problem solving works. This is how we got to the situation we are in today.

[-] epicstove@lemmy.ca 3 points 15 hours ago

My family is decently wealthy but comes from a pretty impoverished background (They moved to Canada from Sri Lanka during the civil war)

They're pretty centreist. Although in the last elections elections they voted Green (Provincial and Federal)

[-] aceshigh@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

To compare - many of my friends are immigrants too (from the former Soviet Union) and grew up poor in the states. And they don’t understand why others who had more opportunities than them weren’t able to “make it”. They view being poor a choice and they don’t want to subsidize people who made the “wrong” choice.

[-] epicstove@lemmy.ca 3 points 15 hours ago

I think my parents Buddhist upbringing has a lot to do with their beliefs. They always want to do good when they can. Respecting other cultures and identities etc.

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