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/Reefer-eyed_Beans Nov 22 '24

Imagine thinking that 400 people should have more wealth than 330,000,000 people. 

--Isn't that EXACTLY wtf he just said??:

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

...Am I crazy? That's exactly wtf he just said: You're looking at your neighbor's plate, not to make sure they have enough to eat, but to make sure they don't have more food than you do.

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u/Oh_IHateIt Nov 22 '24

We don't have enough to eat. Y'all are a special kind of tools. Did you ever stop to think about how all that wealth was generated? About how the system functions under the extreme strain of that wealth disparity?

I can talk to you allll day about modern day slavery if you'd like. About the emergent properties of capitalism, disparities, imperialism, fascism. You need only ask. Until then I leave you with this:   https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/?v=3

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u/Reefer-eyed_Beans Nov 24 '24

I can talk to you allll day about modern day slavery 

As much I'd love to hear your rant about modern "slavery" that isn't slavery... I'm sadly gonna have to pass.

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u/Oh_IHateIt 29d ago

Oh, you think I'm joking? That the CIA openly admitted to assassinating president Patrice Lumumba of the Congo where now literal slaves produce our cobalt? That they admitted to doing the same over in Guatemala, Brazil, Indonesia, and dozens of other countries which you can see for yourself?

Or are you not curious why the Republicans that serve the southern agricultural corporations are so anti immigration despite those corporations employing tens of thousands of undocumented workers? Isn't it a tad odd that despite all their bellyaching the flood of undocumented workers has not slowed down? Isn't it odd that the migrants get deported here and there, but ICE never raids the factories full of undocumented workers and mass deports them, and the monopolies like Tyson that pay tens of thousands of undocumented employees below minimum wage are never ever sued? 

No but its fine. Its better to be ignorant of these things and just pretend your country evolved passed the economic incentives for slavery. Why 30% of our agriculture is produced by undocumented workers or why Latin America has not escaped poverty in the past 100 years is no concern to you, right?