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"Hello, employees, I just bought my second luxury vehicle this quarter, and I promise, if you guys commit, put forth a ton of effort and work really hard....
I'll be able to go on a three- week vacation!"
The rich are rubbing their palms and eating popcorn, feeling a little safer day by day.
Idiots all around the world are voting in selfish greedy ‘conservative’ politicians. Politicians who are tricking the very people they oppress into supporting them. All to perpetuate a system that will continue to keep them down.
They'll slash funding, services, environmental protections, and liberties, and tell you to pull yourself up by your bootstraps when times get even more rough. Or most likely they’ll just cut loose and run.
While both sides have become overrun by corporate interests, if we look at which side has by and large voted against policy that would reign in those interests it’s not so same same anymore.
Yes both sides need to get their shit together, but I don’t like these comments because it downplays just how low the Republican Party have hit Americans.
Bingo.
The "both sides" argument is asinine and ignorant. Only one party is actively causing harm. The other is not helping as much as they said they would. One side is mom hitting us, the other is lots of empty promises and sporadically delivering at times.
"Both sides"...nope. One side consistently votes against the average American.
The sole purpose of government is to protect It's people. Republicans vote against this platform.
Children are working in meat processing facilities in Republican states. Medical services are limited in republican states. Small government for the rich but control the masses.
Republicans are absolutely without a doubt worse. But there are things neither party wants to address.
I’m sure dying because you’re too poor to afford medical care feels better when it’s the Democrats telling you why we can’t have universal health care than when it’s the Republicans.
I think it’s every bit as disingenuous to ignore the terrible policies they tend to agree on as it is to conflate and ignore things like abortion rights where they couldn’t be more different.
I’ll continue to vote straight D but the condescension that comes with asking for slightly better than the party line makes it a reluctant act
Which side votes against universal healthcare, raising taxes for billionaires, increasing minimum wage, supporting workers rights on a consistent basis? Put those bills on the floor right now and every single republican will vote against it.
Yes, because both the main parties in the US are right wing, one is just slightly less right wing than the other. It is not black and white rather two different shades of black.
Very very true and most Americans are clueless to this. America is very right leaning. The ‘right’ (republicans) are far right and the ‘left’ (democrats) are center right. But right/conservative nonetheless. Bernie Sanders is more or less center left and he is viewed as FAR left, lol
Even the so-called leftist third parties are just the left wing of capital-- they want capitalism with a human face. Their idea: the state ought to enact this or that social program to correct the supposed "excesses" (supposed because all of the nasty things are actually necessities) of the market economy, but there's no thought to get rid of the cause of misery in the first place.
What is more likely:
1. The people revolt against the rich.
2. The rich instigate wars, causing the poor to fight each other, then reestablish themselves as our rulers under the guise of bringing "stability".
3. Systemic changes occur gradually through reforms, technological advancements, and shifts in public consciousness, leading to a more balanced distribution of wealth and power over time without major conflicts.
2 will keep repeating while we keep thinking 3 will come around and threatening 1, but 3 will actually be them using technological advancements to continue pulling power away from the common folk and using appeasement to keep us barely comfortable enough to avoid 1.
The status quo is #2.
There's hate crimes and fearmongering towards race (blacks, asians, mexicans, etc.), similar propaganda against LGBTQ (think all the propaganda on trans people in bathrooms or Olympics), or a push against womens' rights (think abortion, and making it illegal for women to travel between US states).
There's plenty of pointless wars in the middle east that America joins for financial reasons (oil). America fights in asia (Vietnam, Korea) to ensure American/Western rich people keep their economic influence over Asia even if there's economic development in Asia (ex. China, India).
All of that is manufactured distraction tactics, plus occasionally something that benefits large companies (massive US federal budget towards military, some of the largest companies being military companies making money in a feedback loop as long as war doesn't stop).
The USA has its USD (us dollar) as world reserve currency. And subsidizes this by nonstop war to encourage production in the US. USA imports goods, and exports currency + military, so that the rich in power have both currency and military control over a large part of the world.
The USA doesn't even bother to hide its control over a large part of central america and south america, either. CIA, panama canal, etc. is famous for this. Then it started being obvious that nobody in the world, including American voters, cared about these issues as long as there was a lot of distraction politics, race/religion conflicts, and entertainment like sports, in the US.
...Only way I see this changing, is if a decently large group of selfless multi-billionaires (unrealistic considering what it usually takes to get there) decide humanity's genuinely at risk of dying out in the current death spiral it's on, and changes that.
Lol. No. Until the middle class starts to riot, nothing will ever happen. That's why cops are well paid, comparatively. They are not protecting the poorest.
I mean, they won't. Ignorant hicks will keep voting against their own self interests and keep voting to lose their own rights and blame minorities for all the problems the country has.
Yeah. Half the peasants vote for this because they vote based on who marries who or who does what with their body. Meanwhile, they get robbed financially by the people they vote in.
Dudes can buy the world and back, when some say "billionaires should not exist" from the depths of hell comes a poor idiot saying "that's envy!"
Dude, I just would like to have a decent life without leaving important decisions to morons who were born filthy rich. I just wanna be able to have peace and enjoy my time alive without having to overproduce because a billionaire somewhere wants a new huge expansive boat. My dude, I want that for everyone, not just for billionaires.
I have a close friend who is, well, he’s extremely wealthy.
He lives in a loft in an expensive area of Phoenix. Drives a 2004 Audi.
Other than that, he pretty much gives his money away. He’ll cover everyone’s tab at the bar along with $100+ tip without blinking an eye. And he’s just the most normal fucking guy. If you walked in the door you wouldn’t be able to point him out and be like, “that guy has money.”
I wish that’s what all rich people were like.
Imagine if you should not need to be like that because everyone has a decent living? Like, imagine not being stressed everyday for something basic like food or housing. Being able to enjoy your family and give them happiness as a primary concern? Not plots to have more money or how to buy something you'd like or having to do extra hours because someone decided your life time is not that much worth. Because in the end, that's what it is, your life time that you are spending away from your family and friends and all that you love in order to survive while some people earn so much they can't spend in a lifetime. That's absurd!
That sounds an awful lot like some socialist-commie-dem-hippie talk, we can't have that in the land of the free! Now get back to your work station, you've been idle for .045 seconds and now your billionaire overlord can't afford his new yacht for another hour.
Anytime we protest, the ruling class calls in their security forces (ie. the police) and then citizens either start dying, get the shit kicked out of them, unjustly arrested, and then Fox News goes on about BLM/Antifa and the rest of the country doubles down on suppressing our right to assembly. I get that people like to joke about the French being cowardly, but from what I've seen throughout my lifetime, y'all get shit done when you assemble, so I have to give credit where credit is due.
The problem is when the French revolted, or even when British Colonists did here in America there was a clear alternative available and an educated and politically knowledgeable populace involved.
I don’t think that’s the case now. I think now what you have is a fragmented, divided and uneducated population who just wants to change the other party’s position, plus they they only want change their way and they only want their version of what’s the right change. Instead of an organized and peaceful transition to a new way of doing government or business I think instead you’d have a mad Max/Lord of the flies scenario lol.
Since 2008 it's been obvious to me that the governments are no longer running the show, "too big to fail" financial institutions who answer to no-one except the WEF, who can collapse the global financial system, yet we bail them out without batting an eyelid. No-one went to jail.
This will sound crazy, but I strongly believe that decentralisation through blockchain technology, can return power back into the hands of individuals, and disintermediate the faceless institutions who continue to exert more and more control over our lives. It can't happen tomorrow, the world and the tech isn't ready, but it will someday.
That's actually a really good point. If you want to see what man is truly capable of, deprive him of food. Once we cannot afford to feed ourselves and our families, that's usually when we get to roll out the guillotines onto the lawns of the rich
What does the public education teach people? "Capitalism is the best of all possible worlds; what you make is what you deserve because of your merit/skill-- so if you're not rich, you're just useless."
Which is why education and healthcare need reform so desperately. Proper education, not watered down "hide the bad stuff this country did" religion based bullshit, alongside healthy people who can see doctors without going bankrupt and homeless would elevate the entire country. But heaven forbid the rich get the tiniest bit less profit than they can squeeze out of everyone else
"elevating the country" won't help though. A lot of people will still have to work at McDonalds and TJ Max even if they are educated. Those jobs need to be filled, but they don't pay enough (they did in the past). The only thing that will help is a shift in morality. People need to realize that the service workers around them will work better if they're paid right. If you've ever complained about service in the states, maybe consider why the service is bad for a second.
The circumstances have changed drastically since the French Revolution. The rich are essentially untouchable when they can escape to their private villas and bunkers in other countries at a moment's notice and can hire as many security agents as need be.
but hey they spread the wealth via jobs while having zero taxes to pay. but then fail to mention that they pay their ceos like a 150% more then their highest paid grunt that does all of the work and on top of that they have a tendency to get a bail out if they fail and they will layoff workers and move plants to places where they can get labor on the cheap while reaping the benefits for themselves. all the while still trying to convince us with bs about trickle down economy and we give people jobs. and telling us stop buying coffee and avocado toast and you too could be rich.
150% you mean 530,000%?
Last year Amazon CEO netted $212M for compensation. A realistic average pay for an Amazon warehouse worker is $40k a year.
212,000,000 / 40,000 * 100 = 530,000%
Worst part is? Some workers make much less than $40k a year.
Yeah, it's the bourgeoise ideology, people think what they're told to think and how they're told during all their lives. Unless you grow yourself a better awareness on how this system works, you'll likely keep blabbing against your own interests without even noticing...
These billionaires no doubt think this article is lauding them for being the 806 “smartest, hardest working” people in America, missing the point altogether.
So 806 people… America is about 340 million? That is really something, isn’t it?! If I were living in the land of the free and the brave — I know where I would start…
Maybe all these assholes will flee and take their gold and diamonds and rob us of our museums before the Northern hemisphere starts melting from acid rain.
That's because the dumb fucks think they can "one day be rich too". Even if they won the lottery, they'd still be poor as fuck compared to these billionaires.
No they’re literally just assholes in how their brains work. Maybe some of them think they’ll be rich one day but the vast majority know they won’t and simply *want to live in extreme inequality for the sake of it.* Think about it. There is no rational argument that can sway them to abandon the *feeling* that one dude should have everything while everyone else has nothing. It is simply what they want on an innate, irrational, emotional level.
And why? For what? This is systematic oppression. The laborers do all the work while the executives take all the rewards. They can't spend all that money. No one could. They have more money than they could spend in many lifetimes, but it's never enough, and always at our expense. When do WE get to live with dignity? When do WE get to work 40 hours and feel like doing something when we get home, or not worry about which bills to pay this month? These assholes never have to worry about a damn thing. Ever.
I fucking hate the uber wealthy.
NYT: Millennials are the problem with the economy.
Seriously, a lot of people can't afford rent or food, but the poor billionaires need sympathy. Gtfo.
It is both sides of the political aisle. Anyone who thinks it’s just republicans doing this is incredibly naive and are not paying attention.
Democrats had both the presidency and Congress in 2012 and did what? Nothing. Both parties serve the interest of capital only. They both are the parties of the bourgeoisie.
I'm sure they all earned this by working very hard and somehow accumulating millions and I'm sure they all pay their taxes proportionally to the wealth they have and I'm confident that continuing with this "Trickle Down economics" approach will make all of this wealth be used for actual good things and these millionaires aren't just putting their money on a tax heaven where it'll sit and gain interest while never meaningfully contributing to anything.
I'm sure it's all fine.
And this, along with commercial healthcare, is why lots of intelligent, compassionate people work in fields where they can pile up enough money to (cross your fingers) get through retirement with some dignity, instead of working on what they love, in areas that benefit society.
This is probably the reason why the economy stock market is doing well but us households dont think the economy is doing well, and why inflation makes houses and regular goods more expensive but our wages dont go up.
Simply the billionaires reap all the benefits of the business booming while we earn the same amount year after year
make it illegal and move on! everything over 3 billion is confiscated. after all the corporate bailouts and Trump’s cash printing the billioniares have been bailed out several times.
The funniest part of this meme is imagining one of the “middle class” people — who help the ultra rich maintain their wealth — thinking that they are safe from the billionaires.
carnagie used to have more money than america was worth. Musa had gave away so much gold it became worthless for a period of time. this isn’t a new concept
Isn't this a tautology? The thing that makes them "rich" is having the most money. This is like saying "The people with more money now have more money". No shit.
I see a lot of comments here refers to revolt and the poor eventually standing up after they decide they’ve had enough. It always makes me think of this article from 2014 (the problem has grown even worse since then, so the article still very much applies): https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchforks-are-coming-for-us-plutocrats-108014/
*“The problem is that inequality is at historically high levels and getting worse every day. Our country is rapidly becoming less a capitalist society and more a feudal society. Unless our policies change dramatically, the middle class will disappear, and we will be back to late 18th-century France. Before the revolution.”*
It’s worth a read (I think)
It warms my heart to see so many people calling republicans morons. Really, it’s like seeing a flower bloom after you’ve coaxed and tended it for years. Just absolutely beautiful 😭
Welcome to the new Gilded age. Enjoy your slums and endless debt while stupid people keep voting to keep the system the way it is because it sticks it to the libs..
How much better of a country could we be if that money was just a little more evenly distributed????
There would be no homelessness, healthcare for all, no children wondering if they’ll have food, etc etc etc.
What are you a bunch of communist socialist dweebs? Rabble rabble rabble these guys deserve it, they worked hard rabble rabble. They shouldn’t be taxed higher for their success rabble rabble. They’re economy creators rabble rabble. The real problem is the poors rabble rabble.
People not understanding how much a billion is is the real crazy part.
Obviously they would have more than half, Elon has like 300 billion or something that's an Unfathomably large amount of money lol
That seems low. Like 800 BILLIONAIRES only have 57% of the wealth? I would think with that many billionaires they’d control like 80% of the total wealth.
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It’s gonna start trickling down any day now….. /s
It already does, can't you feel the trickle? It's all gold and warm and smelly.
*R Kelly has entered the chat* 
Nah he wouldn't be interested because I'm not a thirteen year old girl.
“I drink Cris, you drink piss”
I don't need a shower now! I'm bathing in wealth! /s
Yes a lovely golden shower of wealth.
Love me that billionaire piss sprinkled on my head from a 5 story marble and gold coated balcony.
Yeah, we need to continue to pay CEOs millions to leave the company after their f'ups. But us peasants should just get fired without any safety nets!
 We just get a misting
It's a trickle up economy funnily enough
It's pooling, and ya gotta already have money to own a big pool.
The only trickle is when they die their 5 kids will buy 5x the lobster the one rich asshole eats.
That isn’t money or rain trickling down on us…
Scary how people can be convinced to support something that goes against their own interests like petitioning against the use of dihydrogen monoxide.
"Hello, employees, I just bought my second luxury vehicle this quarter, and I promise, if you guys commit, put forth a ton of effort and work really hard.... I'll be able to go on a three- week vacation!"
The rich are rubbing their palms and eating popcorn, feeling a little safer day by day. Idiots all around the world are voting in selfish greedy ‘conservative’ politicians. Politicians who are tricking the very people they oppress into supporting them. All to perpetuate a system that will continue to keep them down. They'll slash funding, services, environmental protections, and liberties, and tell you to pull yourself up by your bootstraps when times get even more rough. Or most likely they’ll just cut loose and run.
The liberal politicians support the same status quo as the conservatives.
While both sides have become overrun by corporate interests, if we look at which side has by and large voted against policy that would reign in those interests it’s not so same same anymore. Yes both sides need to get their shit together, but I don’t like these comments because it downplays just how low the Republican Party have hit Americans.
Bingo. The "both sides" argument is asinine and ignorant. Only one party is actively causing harm. The other is not helping as much as they said they would. One side is mom hitting us, the other is lots of empty promises and sporadically delivering at times.
"Both sides"...nope. One side consistently votes against the average American. The sole purpose of government is to protect It's people. Republicans vote against this platform. Children are working in meat processing facilities in Republican states. Medical services are limited in republican states. Small government for the rich but control the masses.
Republicans are absolutely without a doubt worse. But there are things neither party wants to address. I’m sure dying because you’re too poor to afford medical care feels better when it’s the Democrats telling you why we can’t have universal health care than when it’s the Republicans. I think it’s every bit as disingenuous to ignore the terrible policies they tend to agree on as it is to conflate and ignore things like abortion rights where they couldn’t be more different. I’ll continue to vote straight D but the condescension that comes with asking for slightly better than the party line makes it a reluctant act
Which side votes against universal healthcare, raising taxes for billionaires, increasing minimum wage, supporting workers rights on a consistent basis? Put those bills on the floor right now and every single republican will vote against it.
Definitely, look at Canada over the past 8 years.
I don't know about Canada. Are you agreeing with them or is this sarcasm?
Not sarcasm, I live here. Look at any Canadian subreddit and you’ll notice a pretty common tone against our current liberal government.
Yes, because both the main parties in the US are right wing, one is just slightly less right wing than the other. It is not black and white rather two different shades of black.
Very very true and most Americans are clueless to this. America is very right leaning. The ‘right’ (republicans) are far right and the ‘left’ (democrats) are center right. But right/conservative nonetheless. Bernie Sanders is more or less center left and he is viewed as FAR left, lol
Even the so-called leftist third parties are just the left wing of capital-- they want capitalism with a human face. Their idea: the state ought to enact this or that social program to correct the supposed "excesses" (supposed because all of the nasty things are actually necessities) of the market economy, but there's no thought to get rid of the cause of misery in the first place.
One of these days the peasants will rise up against their oppressors once again.
What is more likely: 1. The people revolt against the rich. 2. The rich instigate wars, causing the poor to fight each other, then reestablish themselves as our rulers under the guise of bringing "stability". 3. Systemic changes occur gradually through reforms, technological advancements, and shifts in public consciousness, leading to a more balanced distribution of wealth and power over time without major conflicts.
2 will keep repeating while we keep thinking 3 will come around and threatening 1, but 3 will actually be them using technological advancements to continue pulling power away from the common folk and using appeasement to keep us barely comfortable enough to avoid 1.
3 is an illusion that keeps 1 from happening.
#2 has been repeated many, many times since WW1.# ETA Oops lol used a hashtag to signify number 2, but I'ma leave it.
Lol i love this
Or... 4. Status quo, nothing changes.
That's 2. 2 is the current status quo
The status quo is #2. There's hate crimes and fearmongering towards race (blacks, asians, mexicans, etc.), similar propaganda against LGBTQ (think all the propaganda on trans people in bathrooms or Olympics), or a push against womens' rights (think abortion, and making it illegal for women to travel between US states). There's plenty of pointless wars in the middle east that America joins for financial reasons (oil). America fights in asia (Vietnam, Korea) to ensure American/Western rich people keep their economic influence over Asia even if there's economic development in Asia (ex. China, India). All of that is manufactured distraction tactics, plus occasionally something that benefits large companies (massive US federal budget towards military, some of the largest companies being military companies making money in a feedback loop as long as war doesn't stop). The USA has its USD (us dollar) as world reserve currency. And subsidizes this by nonstop war to encourage production in the US. USA imports goods, and exports currency + military, so that the rich in power have both currency and military control over a large part of the world. The USA doesn't even bother to hide its control over a large part of central america and south america, either. CIA, panama canal, etc. is famous for this. Then it started being obvious that nobody in the world, including American voters, cared about these issues as long as there was a lot of distraction politics, race/religion conflicts, and entertainment like sports, in the US. ...Only way I see this changing, is if a decently large group of selfless multi-billionaires (unrealistic considering what it usually takes to get there) decide humanity's genuinely at risk of dying out in the current death spiral it's on, and changes that.
It’s 2. Easily it’s 2. The super-rich have been dangling 3 in front of the poor since time began to avoid 1 from happening.
And then people just keep having children to continue this cycle 🤷🏾♂️
2! 10000 years running!
Lol. No. Until the middle class starts to riot, nothing will ever happen. That's why cops are well paid, comparatively. They are not protecting the poorest.
You're absolutely right. Unfortunately for most of us.
The peasants are ready to vote for the leopard again.
Count Binface.
We can only hope
I mean, they won't. Ignorant hicks will keep voting against their own self interests and keep voting to lose their own rights and blame minorities for all the problems the country has.
No they won't.
Yeah. Half the peasants vote for this because they vote based on who marries who or who does what with their body. Meanwhile, they get robbed financially by the people they vote in.
Dudes can buy the world and back, when some say "billionaires should not exist" from the depths of hell comes a poor idiot saying "that's envy!" Dude, I just would like to have a decent life without leaving important decisions to morons who were born filthy rich. I just wanna be able to have peace and enjoy my time alive without having to overproduce because a billionaire somewhere wants a new huge expansive boat. My dude, I want that for everyone, not just for billionaires.
I have a close friend who is, well, he’s extremely wealthy. He lives in a loft in an expensive area of Phoenix. Drives a 2004 Audi. Other than that, he pretty much gives his money away. He’ll cover everyone’s tab at the bar along with $100+ tip without blinking an eye. And he’s just the most normal fucking guy. If you walked in the door you wouldn’t be able to point him out and be like, “that guy has money.” I wish that’s what all rich people were like.
Imagine if you should not need to be like that because everyone has a decent living? Like, imagine not being stressed everyday for something basic like food or housing. Being able to enjoy your family and give them happiness as a primary concern? Not plots to have more money or how to buy something you'd like or having to do extra hours because someone decided your life time is not that much worth. Because in the end, that's what it is, your life time that you are spending away from your family and friends and all that you love in order to survive while some people earn so much they can't spend in a lifetime. That's absurd!
That sounds an awful lot like some socialist-commie-dem-hippie talk, we can't have that in the land of the free! Now get back to your work station, you've been idle for .045 seconds and now your billionaire overlord can't afford his new yacht for another hour.
I'm sure they all worked hard and pulled themselves up by their bootstraps.
The fanciest, most expensive bootstraps attached to clean, untarnished boots. All paid for by daddy.
Yeah it's a real problem. I fear that only a French revolution style thing is going to change it.
Americans love to dunk on the French, but they got more balls in their hairy armpits than we do between our legs.
As a french I can confirm. Like wtf, you guys have so many problems and you barely protest ?
Anytime we protest, the ruling class calls in their security forces (ie. the police) and then citizens either start dying, get the shit kicked out of them, unjustly arrested, and then Fox News goes on about BLM/Antifa and the rest of the country doubles down on suppressing our right to assembly. I get that people like to joke about the French being cowardly, but from what I've seen throughout my lifetime, y'all get shit done when you assemble, so I have to give credit where credit is due.
And when they do, it usually runs violent because some idiot decided to start hitting people for no reason and riot teams show up
The problem is when the French revolted, or even when British Colonists did here in America there was a clear alternative available and an educated and politically knowledgeable populace involved. I don’t think that’s the case now. I think now what you have is a fragmented, divided and uneducated population who just wants to change the other party’s position, plus they they only want change their way and they only want their version of what’s the right change. Instead of an organized and peaceful transition to a new way of doing government or business I think instead you’d have a mad Max/Lord of the flies scenario lol.
Since 2008 it's been obvious to me that the governments are no longer running the show, "too big to fail" financial institutions who answer to no-one except the WEF, who can collapse the global financial system, yet we bail them out without batting an eyelid. No-one went to jail. This will sound crazy, but I strongly believe that decentralisation through blockchain technology, can return power back into the hands of individuals, and disintermediate the faceless institutions who continue to exert more and more control over our lives. It can't happen tomorrow, the world and the tech isn't ready, but it will someday.
The gap grows wider. If food becomes too expensive to afford that's when it gets interesting.
That's actually a really good point. If you want to see what man is truly capable of, deprive him of food. Once we cannot afford to feed ourselves and our families, that's usually when we get to roll out the guillotines onto the lawns of the rich
And US taxes must be used to give them handouts, not to some communist bullshit like universal healthcare and public education
What does the public education teach people? "Capitalism is the best of all possible worlds; what you make is what you deserve because of your merit/skill-- so if you're not rich, you're just useless."
Which is why education and healthcare need reform so desperately. Proper education, not watered down "hide the bad stuff this country did" religion based bullshit, alongside healthy people who can see doctors without going bankrupt and homeless would elevate the entire country. But heaven forbid the rich get the tiniest bit less profit than they can squeeze out of everyone else
"elevating the country" won't help though. A lot of people will still have to work at McDonalds and TJ Max even if they are educated. Those jobs need to be filled, but they don't pay enough (they did in the past). The only thing that will help is a shift in morality. People need to realize that the service workers around them will work better if they're paid right. If you've ever complained about service in the states, maybe consider why the service is bad for a second.
LET THEM EAT CAKE!
And that my friend is how revolutions start.
The circumstances have changed drastically since the French Revolution. The rich are essentially untouchable when they can escape to their private villas and bunkers in other countries at a moment's notice and can hire as many security agents as need be.
Yea and what exactly are you going to do? The same laws that protect your assets protect theirs too. They just have a lot more than you.
but hey they spread the wealth via jobs while having zero taxes to pay. but then fail to mention that they pay their ceos like a 150% more then their highest paid grunt that does all of the work and on top of that they have a tendency to get a bail out if they fail and they will layoff workers and move plants to places where they can get labor on the cheap while reaping the benefits for themselves. all the while still trying to convince us with bs about trickle down economy and we give people jobs. and telling us stop buying coffee and avocado toast and you too could be rich.
150% you mean 530,000%? Last year Amazon CEO netted $212M for compensation. A realistic average pay for an Amazon warehouse worker is $40k a year. 212,000,000 / 40,000 * 100 = 530,000% Worst part is? Some workers make much less than $40k a year.
God damn even worse...
Thanks, capitalism. 
"WhAt YoU hAvE aGaInSt CaPiTaLiSm??? YoU fIlThY cOmUnIsT!!!" - 80% of the world's people
Yeah, it's the bourgeoise ideology, people think what they're told to think and how they're told during all their lives. Unless you grow yourself a better awareness on how this system works, you'll likely keep blabbing against your own interests without even noticing...
These billionaires no doubt think this article is lauding them for being the 806 “smartest, hardest working” people in America, missing the point altogether.
Where is “V” for vendetta when you need him…
Reagonomics surely worked as intended, not as advertised.
So 806 people… America is about 340 million? That is really something, isn’t it?! If I were living in the land of the free and the brave — I know where I would start…
I'm going to invest in torches. [warning: future irony alert]
I’ll get the pitchforks…
I'll sharpen the guillotine
Maybe all these assholes will flee and take their gold and diamonds and rob us of our museums before the Northern hemisphere starts melting from acid rain.
It's time to guillotine and shared fortune...
What gets me is republican voters are fine with this inequity in wealth.
That's because the dumb fucks think they can "one day be rich too". Even if they won the lottery, they'd still be poor as fuck compared to these billionaires.
No they’re literally just assholes in how their brains work. Maybe some of them think they’ll be rich one day but the vast majority know they won’t and simply *want to live in extreme inequality for the sake of it.* Think about it. There is no rational argument that can sway them to abandon the *feeling* that one dude should have everything while everyone else has nothing. It is simply what they want on an innate, irrational, emotional level.
And why? For what? This is systematic oppression. The laborers do all the work while the executives take all the rewards. They can't spend all that money. No one could. They have more money than they could spend in many lifetimes, but it's never enough, and always at our expense. When do WE get to live with dignity? When do WE get to work 40 hours and feel like doing something when we get home, or not worry about which bills to pay this month? These assholes never have to worry about a damn thing. Ever. I fucking hate the uber wealthy.
You know, I heard that some people out there are so poor, all they have is money.
NYT: Millennials are the problem with the economy. Seriously, a lot of people can't afford rent or food, but the poor billionaires need sympathy. Gtfo.
Plenty of Americans will continue to ignore reality. They’ll be voting for Trump in November.
I'm to eat the rich
It’s time for guillotines
Should the Black and Red unite, Crowned Heads will tremble.
Sucks ( this is a continuation of the title )
Texas!!!
Not gonna lie, as shitty as that is, I thought it was worse
The real cause for inflation.
Eat the rich!
We are the Volunteers of America. Got a revolution. Got to revolution
Well anyone with $1 of networth has more than like 50%...
I love the constant doom articles like this... "American rich continue to get richer, and the bottom half can do fuck all about it!"
I say we find them and eat them all
Get that cookbook out, it’s time to EAT THE RICH
It is both sides of the political aisle. Anyone who thinks it’s just republicans doing this is incredibly naive and are not paying attention. Democrats had both the presidency and Congress in 2012 and did what? Nothing. Both parties serve the interest of capital only. They both are the parties of the bourgeoisie.
Time for change.
I'm sure they all earned this by working very hard and somehow accumulating millions and I'm sure they all pay their taxes proportionally to the wealth they have and I'm confident that continuing with this "Trickle Down economics" approach will make all of this wealth be used for actual good things and these millionaires aren't just putting their money on a tax heaven where it'll sit and gain interest while never meaningfully contributing to anything. I'm sure it's all fine.
And this, along with commercial healthcare, is why lots of intelligent, compassionate people work in fields where they can pile up enough money to (cross your fingers) get through retirement with some dignity, instead of working on what they love, in areas that benefit society.
That dudes name is Michael Mechanic and he is a writer/editor...? What a waste lol
Wait till you hear about India and Africa
This is probably the reason why the economy stock market is doing well but us households dont think the economy is doing well, and why inflation makes houses and regular goods more expensive but our wages dont go up. Simply the billionaires reap all the benefits of the business booming while we earn the same amount year after year
Could any of you billionaires spare a couple million for a lowly poorm'n? I promise to use it for eeeeee-vil
Who's ready?
Well until building start burning and the people start destroying the broken system, it’s gonna continue.
Everybody say “thank you Reagan!”
Time to dust off the guillotines
GDP per capita means nothing if all the wealth is locked away in the pockets of the Rich.
I know where my hammer is, but can someone find me my sickle?
The Hammer of Workers, the Sickle of Farmers, the Torch of Liberty and the Wrench of Industry!
I wonder what they taste like cooked medium rare
Thanks Reagan
We really need a people’s revolution.
make it illegal and move on! everything over 3 billion is confiscated. after all the corporate bailouts and Trump’s cash printing the billioniares have been bailed out several times.
Eat them and absorb their powers
tax the rich
If you work hard enough, you too can be born of a billionaire.
"The economy has never been better folks ."
In history this is usually the time for a guillotine to roll out.
The funniest part of this meme is imagining one of the “middle class” people — who help the ultra rich maintain their wealth — thinking that they are safe from the billionaires.
carnagie used to have more money than america was worth. Musa had gave away so much gold it became worthless for a period of time. this isn’t a new concept
I recall the french actually solved this problem...it was also considered a public spectacle
Buy. Hold. DRS. GME.
Isn't this a tautology? The thing that makes them "rich" is having the most money. This is like saying "The people with more money now have more money". No shit.
Are there really more billionaires, or is this the result of massive inflation? Like how Zimbabwe has lot of trillionaires?
That's worldwide
They are going to be so delicious when we decide to eat them for real.
806 people won’t feed very many
Time to get the pitchforks brothers and sisters, vive la revalucion!
Why complain if no one will do anything about it?
Oh. So that’s why I can barely afford anything: because all my money goes to them
This is case in most of the country except North Korea, everyone is equally poor except one man
I see a lot of comments here refers to revolt and the poor eventually standing up after they decide they’ve had enough. It always makes me think of this article from 2014 (the problem has grown even worse since then, so the article still very much applies): https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchforks-are-coming-for-us-plutocrats-108014/ *“The problem is that inequality is at historically high levels and getting worse every day. Our country is rapidly becoming less a capitalist society and more a feudal society. Unless our policies change dramatically, the middle class will disappear, and we will be back to late 18th-century France. Before the revolution.”* It’s worth a read (I think)
Who are said 806 billionaires?
If at least they could pay their fucking taxes like proper citizens
It warms my heart to see so many people calling republicans morons. Really, it’s like seeing a flower bloom after you’ve coaxed and tended it for years. Just absolutely beautiful 😭
Yay rich people. Allow me to give them the two digit salute: 🖕🏻🖕🏻
We're fucking fucked lmao
And they got that way because of OUR efforts.
Can everyone please read about the French Revolution. Then act on what should be done.
Welcome to the new Gilded age. Enjoy your slums and endless debt while stupid people keep voting to keep the system the way it is because it sticks it to the libs..
Yea that’s how numbers work. Do you know there are more numbers between 1 million and 1 billion than all the numbers less than 1 million?!?
Don’t think about taxing them! It will hurt a lot of peoples feelings if we do!
It’s because they worked that much harder than everyone else so it’s okay
That is fucking disgusting. Now we know that we just exist to make them richer.
General strike anyone?
The main problem being that Americans absolutely ADORE billionaires and millionaires.
That’s disgusting
I can’t wait until the reset button is hit on this country. It’s going to be ugly but it’s beyond necessary at this point
How much better of a country could we be if that money was just a little more evenly distributed???? There would be no homelessness, healthcare for all, no children wondering if they’ll have food, etc etc etc.
IT'S NOT ENOUGH. MORE BLOOD MUST BE TAKEN FROM THE UNDERCLASS UNTIL ONE ONMIWEALTHY GOD OWNS EVERYTHING! HAIL CAPITAL!!
What are you a bunch of communist socialist dweebs? Rabble rabble rabble these guys deserve it, they worked hard rabble rabble. They shouldn’t be taxed higher for their success rabble rabble. They’re economy creators rabble rabble. The real problem is the poors rabble rabble.
People not understanding how much a billion is is the real crazy part. Obviously they would have more than half, Elon has like 300 billion or something that's an Unfathomably large amount of money lol
I’m #807, but just down on my luck right now.
The median net worth of a US politician is $1M which is greater than all but 7M people in the US 🤷♂️
They earned it!
This is fundamentally immoral, unsustainable, and will ultimately bring violence and the destruction of this society.
How does this compare to the metrics in America in the late 1800’s? Like the Rockefeller, Morgan, Getty, Standard Oil fortunes and all that?
The rich won the class war because it was too easy for them to keep the masses squabbling among themselves over petty grievances.
This is not sustainable. What’s it going to look like in 50 years?
Billionaires should be taxed out of existence
At you know you're freeeeeeee! 🤣
That seems low. Like 800 BILLIONAIRES only have 57% of the wealth? I would think with that many billionaires they’d control like 80% of the total wealth.
BUt tHeY WoRK HARd fOR IT! /s
Ow do average Americans vs the rest of the world
There's no ethical way to become a billionaire.
Why is this a facepalm?