• brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    There’s a massive difference between well-off, or even wealthy (think a practicing doctor/dentist or small business entrepeneur) and billionaire.

    Saying ‘screw your savings’ to people like that is the conflict the billionare class wants, instead of everyone focusing on them.

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      20 hours ago

      Completely true.

      Do you know what the difference is between a millionaire and a billionaire?

      A billion dollars.

      There is really no comparison. Doctors, lawyers, tenured professors, even most CEOS are working class compared to the investor class.

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      No it’s not. A well off doctor in the U.S. has more disposable income and assets than ~97% of the worlds population, and is able to sustain their resulting material wealth as a function of economic labor exploitation of “developing” countries

      Y’all are just mad because Trump is kicking you down to hang with the rest of us poors.

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        It’s incredible how you absolute cretins are happy to be shoved into the mud just because some other people you don’t like might have to walk through the mud too. What causes this?

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      20 hours ago

      Yeah. But this way he gets to be the most radical person in his peer group. Leftier than thou; regardless of the damage to the movement.

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      We should be starting at the billionaires and working our way down, but I also don’t care when consumerists and neo-liberals get theirs early.

      You have more than enough and should not receive even more while others have less, just like the billionaires you’re criticizing.

      This is the important part that you’re conveniently ignoring. Why should the person with a $400,000 house in suburbia be exempt from the redistribution of wealth while children starve? How much are they really contributing to the world to deserve that?

      You mention doctors and dentists, and I’d agree with you. They can keep their assets within reason.

      What about everyone else who isn’t in medicine? What about the people that aren’t easy for you to hide behind to justify your greed and consumerism?

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        20 hours ago

        Well off suburbanites should not be exempt from redistribution, but I. Doubt it will happen in a grand revolution.

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          There’s not going to be any “revolution.” I have a master’s degree in sociology. I could explain why, but it would be boring.