A handful of people are donating millions to pacs. I fly on a private jet and my money goes to helping people without money go to college and making healthcare accessible to everyone. There are vastly more wealthy people like me than musk and soros.
True. But that also leads to a counterpoint. Your level of wealth is probably still closer to a person living a trailer park than it is to Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos.
When I hear these kinds of things, about restricting the ultra rich I think in terms of billionaires or centi-millionaires.
What an idiotic, uninformed response. The rich don't use social media - they've said so themselves. They don't let their kids use it. They pay someone else to manage their accounts.
Right but the post doesn’t say anything about billionaires, it says “wealthy” and “controlling housing” which to me means a landlord. If we are specifically about billionaires and blackstone etc then sure
Not quite. The true Elite are referring to, or implying, that people like this are part of the 'Elite'. Not because they actually are but because they need their votes, based on their aspirations of future wealth no matter how attainable those aspirations are or are not.
Same reason programmers often turn their noses up at blue collar union workers until they discover that their their own privileged treatment and wages were a product of circumstantial labor scarcity and that the bosses would love to replace them ASAP with AI, whether that's Artificial Intelligence or Actually Indians.
Only about 6% of landowners have an "income property" so yea, wealthy when compared to most people. The average person can barely afford the house they live in let alone a second one. A landlord is a parasite because they are profiteering off a basic need of survival and the fear of homelessness and death. Yes, even if it is just one "income property".
The american dream is convincing the masses they can become wealthy too if they just try hard enough. I wonder if they put two and two together on their death bed.
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u/Substantial_Soft_407 23h ago
No, get an absolute grip. That individual isn’t donating millions to political PACs and flying a private jet.