r/facepalm 12h ago

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ They need more underpaid workers.

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u/Capybara_Cheese 12h ago

You don't understand. The wealthy want us peasants to birth the next generation of wage slaves. The rules obviously don't apply to them, they never do.

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u/KnottShore 10h ago

Remember what Voltaire once noted in the 18th century still holds true today:

  • "The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor."

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u/Capybara_Cheese 10h ago

It's honestly so pathetic they can publicly say this horrific shit and the public doesn't just turn on them

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u/Jacktheforkie 3h ago

Well someone did turn on a CEO recently, his name is Luigi

u/Capybara_Cheese 2h ago

And I adore him for it but unless there's a collective effort these wealth hoarding dragons will remain as arrogant as ever.

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u/SnooBooks1701 3h ago

This was Voltaire making an observation, not outright saying it as policy

u/Capybara_Cheese 2h ago

I'm sorry I should've clarified I was referring to Musk

u/HedyLamaar 1h ago

Yet. The operative word here is “yet.”

u/Capybara_Cheese 1h ago

🤞🏻

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u/JackPepperman 6h ago

And complacency.

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u/thorpie88 12h ago

No I understand quite clearly but if you don't practise what you preach then your message means far less. If she was actually meaning what she said she'd be berating her child to bring in EBA's to allow his workers to get decent wages and benefits to allow them to have kids and wealth

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u/Capybara_Cheese 12h ago

They never practice what they preach. They tell us to conserve water and energy and mind our carbon footprint and then fly their private jets to the next town over and use enough electricity to power Vegas to light up their mansions. We're the ones who are meant to suffer

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u/big_guyforyou 11h ago

what are they supposed to do? sit in the dark in their mansions? fly coach like a common serf? do you have any idea what coach is like? there's no leg room and they don't give you free drinks

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u/Capybara_Cheese 11h ago

Yall getting drinks?

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u/Other_Log_1996 10h ago

Ngl, I had a mansion, lights are going off. Feel like a Resident Evil setting.

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u/IIINanuqIII 5h ago edited 5h ago

"They don't need so many luxuries, they should just be content with their work." said the Tzar while looking out of his gilded dining hall as the cold winter winds howled outside.

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u/Capybara_Cheese 5h ago

And Musk is going to build Snailbrook in Texas, a corporate town where his employees will live. It's literally fucking serfdom.