• @[email protected]
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      No more billionaires, but everyone can be a millionaire.

      The shortest path to equality is to greatly reduce taxes on the middle class and increase them on the wealthy.

      It puzzles me why leftist parties don’t all embrace lower taxes for the middle class.

      • @[email protected]
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        It puzzles me why leftist parties don’t all embrace lower taxes for the middle class.

        They all do. My best guess as to why you’d say this is that you’re including Democrats.

        edit: Or, I could be a self-centered American that didn’t consider others. I’ll do better.

        At risk of a strawman…

        The shortest path to equality is to greatly reduce taxes on the middle class and increase them on the wealthy.

        That’s what’s best for equality and for economic growth. Does this mean Democrats are horribly incompetent? Perhaps it’s that equality and economic growth aren’t their goals.

      • FlashMobOfOne
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        It puzzles me why leftist parties don’t all embrace lower taxes for the middle class.

        Functionally, we don’t have one. The closest is the Green Party, but they’re so powerless that they may as well not exist.

    • @[email protected]
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      You’re wrong. It doesn’t require no money. It requires that you have rejected the sucker for money.

  • NutWrench
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    If you live in a society where you work a 40 hour week and you STILL can’t afford basic things like shelter, food, utilities and healthcare, then the rich are stealing too goddamn much from you.

  • sircac
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    Trying to get rich is the selfish version of “every man for himself”, building a more equal society is the empathetic one: in a fair society there are no threats to seek your own life.

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      lol literally. like yes… that’s the point of being rich. unless you have literal scrouge mcduck fantasies of diving into an ocean of momey

    • @[email protected]
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      It is shallow, sure. That doesn’t, however mean that it isn’t deep. Money is literally both and that’s because it eats your shoe sole and your soul. Don’t believe me? Good. Don’t believe anything at all. I don’t. I know what I know because I listen to “God” the Devil and the Dead. Six one way half a dozen the other. Heaven is what they don’t explain.

      Hold on. I need to thrown the fuck up. Lets deconstruct the evil here. I know exactly what the Devil is saying and why Heath Ledger was murdered by the CIA.

    • rivvvver
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      111 year ago

      what if it means taking other ppls freedom away from them in the process?

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          i mean, thats great! but the moneys gotta come from somewhere, and in most cases someone else is being exploited.

          most non-profits actually suffer from this issue where getting funding is the number one priority.

          the organization has to bend its methods to what will look good on paper vs what would actually be best for their cause

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          theres companies making money off of prison labor, if u want a not very subtle example. in the US, prisons are also for-profit institutions, making it even more insidious.

          then ur typical capitalist labor situation ofc. ur boss makes more off of their workers labor than their workers get paid. this “surplus value” is how bosses get richer than the ppl who work for them; all without having to do any actual work of their own.

          ow also landlords who rent housing to ppl for a price, often providing very little or even no maintenance at all for that building. this exploits peoples need of shelter for the landlords personal gain, as landlords squeeze as much money out of ppl as they can get away with (also for example, keeping security deposits for no good reason).

  • @[email protected]
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    41 year ago

    It’s interesting how this scene was constructed. The blacksmiths and their table never appear outside except when guiding the one lost blacksmith back home. The old man is usually sleeping in the bar mumbling about his lost son (flute boy) until the pre-credits end sequence where they are reunited in the forest. The text boxes normally have a transparent background, but here it’s a darkened floor tile from Sahasrahla’s hut.