Scrolling through the all feed and saw this post and genuinely cannot tell of this is satire or not.
First they took from people who had so much they couldn't spend it in a thousand lifetimes - The Billionaire Genocide
First they came for the millionaires and distributed their wealth equally and I said nothing because I wasn't a millionaire.
Then they came for the abled bodies and made public spaces as inclusive as possible and I said nothing because I didn't notice.
Then they came for cis men and abolished the nuclear family and I said nothing because I'm not married so I didn't care.
And when they smashed white supremacy, there was no one left to defend me.
You are a poet. Well said
Is “abolishing the nuclear family” actually in the program here? WTF
Do you think that this means "no one can have a family that is two cis gendered people of the opposite sex raising children!"
Or do you think its talking about the structures of society that force people into these gender roles and family structures to begin with?
Answer. It's the later one. Abolishing these structures, the incentives of and the dependencies they create, is part of abolishing patriarchy.
No no, I agree we should start with the billionaires or possible trillionaires by time we actually do something.
Millionaires aren't really the problem, billionaires are.
I feel this is not stressed enough.
The guy owning the local car dealership that has a nice yacht and a holiday appartment in Mallorca is not actually even remotly the same kind of problem like jeff bezos or elon musk.
Sure, noone needs a yacht, but the irder of magnitude is not even remotely comparable.
Am million dollars isn't yacht money, though. It would take several millions to actually get close.
1 million isn't even enough for a comfortable retirement these days.
A "millionaire" doesn't mean much compared to three decades ago.
Seriously. The difference between someone with 2 million dollars and 800 million dollars is about 800 million dollars
Billionaires also aren't the problem. They are the symptom.
The problem is the system of economics and politics, by extension the various institutions they manifest, that allows individuals to become billionaires through the exploitation of other people's labor via private ownership over the means of production that should rightfully belong to the people through collective ownership.
Yep. A million dollars is much closer to 0 dollars than it is to a billion dollars. An even bigger problem is the ultra billionaires.
Aside from that simplistic argument, billionaires are much much more parasitic to society than millionaires are.
Bitch even if we came for the millionaires, that would hardly be the “first” group anyone came for. Y’all been coming for the women, gays, Latinos, atheists, Arabs and trans folk as long as can I can fuckin remember.
well, the white women majority back Trump so there is that
Half of them do it because they are in captive marriages with a Trumper.
The famous "women can't do wrong, because of patriarchy" card. That's a good one
Millionaires can stay. I'm more angry about the billionaires and the soon to be trillionaires.
Nobody gets to be a millionaire without exploiting people.
My dad worked as a programmer (idk the official title) for a decent sized company. Always contributed to his 401k enough to get the employer match, and added more each time he got a raise. Between the paid off mortgage and 401k balance his net worth is over $1 million. He was only ever an employee, I don't think he exploited anyone. Bought himself a new set of golf clubs to enjoy when he retires. His last set was one his family got him for graduating high school.
They're talking income, not net worth. The people who make in a year what your dad managed to accumulate over a lifetime. That's why his lack of exploiting others is irrelevant.
Being a millionaire is the new middle class. Had I not married, I would be a millionaire just from my work; after about fifteen years.
Or buying a house. It's not 1972, millionaires are not rare.
Becoming a millionaire is not as hard anymore. And it's definitely not necessary to exploit anyone. You can work hard enough to justify it all though you'll need to be good at something or build/Create something alot of people want to buy.
Billionaires, should not be tolerated.
That's definitely not true. I feel I live a pretty humble life, but with my retirement goals I will be a millionaire. I'm definitely not in the capitalist class.
Depends on what you mean by millionaire, in liquid capital? Sure probably some exploitation depending on factors. In net worth? Pretty sure my grandmother is a millionaire from our home alone.
Bernie Sanders' net worth is now more than a million
You could be a very fair pricing dentist and easily get a net worth over $1m over your career.
If I kept my current lifestyle and had a job paying twice as much, I'd be a millionaire by the time I retire. And twice as much would be around 100k€. Which is a lot, but still something a decent amount of people make. And it's not like it'd be impossible with less.
The tax in question is actually on annual income of a million dollars. But it's Washington so they can't call it an income tax
How can you tell that they are a boomer at heart?
They talk about millionaires as the rich.
Except the "They" who comes for people is the millionaires.
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It's real. It was from a protest in Washington State, USA. The legislature was voting on a tax on millionaires.
Well the headline is satire. The sign likely not. It shows how crazy people are that you don't know anymore
Pretty sure this is about the millionaires tax in Washington State, the first income tax passed in the state ever. The big argument against it is that it'll set the precedence of an income tax being legal by the state constitution, and then they'll start lowering the minimum income to tax everyone. Oh no, a progressive tax system!
Oh please, please let's do that. That would legitimately be fantastic. Not just millionaires though, because enough of them could've just worked hard to get there. Once you get to the like hundreds of millions or billions, then those people don't deserve it.
Yeah it's crazy how inflation is like that.
There are plenty of just regular day-to-day people that are technically millionaires. But like, it's all invested and or it's their retirement account and they're 50 and it has to last them the rest of their life and they aren't globetrotting on a mega yacht.
Inflation is the one reason I have a tiiiiiiiny corner of my mind saying "they might have a point". Pegging laws to a dollar amount that makes sense today doesn't mean that dollar amount will continue to make sense in the future.
Tie it to some multiple of the poverty line or median cost of living, then we're getting somewhere.
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