• Neuromancer@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    I don’t have a problem with people who create value and become wealthy. They earned it and created good jobs, more power to them.

    Hedge funds, most Private equity, etc can go fuck themselves. They strip wealth and destroy things.

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      6 months ago

      I’m not for people only interested in benefiting themselves being the ones rewarded most by society, let alone being the ones effectively in charge of society as they are.

      It isn’t heroic, benevolent, or even minimally pro-social to spend your life trying to accrue private profit for the sake of private profit. It just makes you greedy and selfish. Or as they call it with their orwellian language manipulation, “rational self-interest.” being greedy, selfish, and unconcerned with the effects your actions have on others makes you a vile, broken, contemptible person, and humanity seems to have forgotten that entirely, or at least we’ve been propagandized to forget it by the owner class.

      We punish people that dare to pursue vocations that benefit society, like teachers and paramedics, and reward selfishness.

      I can’t root for my own species in this state. Slitting eachother’s throats when there’s another dollar to be had by it. If this is truly what our species has chosen as it’s most practiced purpose and meaning, I want no part of it, and I will be grateful when it’s time to leave it.

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      6 months ago

      No one creates wealth alone. When one becomes that rich, they’ve stolen it.