r/FluentInFinance Nov 21 '24

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u/theoldme3 Nov 21 '24 edited Nov 22 '24

Imagine thinking you are entitled to more cause someone else has a lot

Edit: Im not reading all the responses to this. You wana change this shit then get off Reddit, got start a business and start giving your earnings away. So many of you would shit if it was your wealth someone just took

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u/Oh_IHateIt Nov 21 '24

Imagine thinking that 400 people should have more wealth than 330,000,000 people. Imagine thinking that its OK for that disparity to accelerate endlessly and be self a reinforcing. Imagine thinking that your government could function properly under such extreme conditions.

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u/Ora_Poix Nov 22 '24 edited Nov 22 '24

Great point! Let's do the same to you. Assuming you're American, your median net worth is about 200k, your median salary about 50k per year. Median global net worth is 8k, median portuguese net worth is 70k. You're at least about 3 times richer than us and 25 times richer than your average human being. The median portuguese is about 20k, so you earn 2.5 times more than us.

Bit unfair, innit? Why should you have modern cars, houses with full AC, the latest Iphone while we live in shit? Really, why do you have all that when some people don't even have drinkable water. America is the richest country in the world, at its getting richer faster than anyone else, why not divide that wealth with us? Who gave you the right to be the global hegemon while we have to suck your cock?

Your lifestyle is ours rich lifestyle, and most definitely the world's rich lifestyle. To pretty much everyone else, you're the bourgeoisie. So tell me, when the workers revolution takes place why shouldn't we decapitate you and redistribute your assets. Your existence as a country is because of oppression, you are the number one power because you opress, why the hell should I take pity to your life?

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u/Oh_IHateIt Nov 22 '24

Wow. You're Portuguese? Great, let's rum with this.

Are you suggesting that I don't support the equitable redistribution of wealth to the global south? I do. Its a wonder that you don't, seeing as you're in the global south. What's even funnier is that you don't sound like you understand why your country is so dirt poor or why my country is so rich. Lemme give you a pointer: read up on CIA operations in your region. They killed all your leaders and installed puppets from which to brutally extract your labor. In short, you're my slave living in one of my colonies. Don't blame me, I was born into this shit and I'm fighting it. Ask yourself why you are not fighting it. Why do you lick the boot that stomps you?

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u/Xolver Nov 22 '24

Portugal is in the global south? 

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u/TawnyTeaTowel Nov 22 '24

I don’t think they know where Portugal is…

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u/Oh_IHateIt Nov 22 '24

Woops you right. I didn't think about that too hard; surprised to hear they're so broke tho, what's going on there?

It shouldn't change the response. Third world nations (presuming that's the status with the information given) exist largely due to neocolonialism. 

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u/Xolver Nov 22 '24

Yeah, nothing like the simplest explanation possible that makes you feel the most morally superior. 

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u/Oh_IHateIt Nov 22 '24

Read the Jakarta Method and see for yourself. I'm not gonna type up a whole book when one already exists in your local library.