• Sheltac@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    What’s wrong with being anti-billionaire?

    If a dragon were hoarding all the gold in your village and leaving the villagers to get fucked, would you be pro-dragon?

    (Yeah it’s a Terry Pratchett novel.)

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      1 year ago

      But that’s the point, They’re not hoarding ALL the gold, your point is based in hyperbolie and is ridiculous.

      We have a lot in this day and age.

      Food, shelter, international travel, computers, cars, global internet etc etc

      And making the argument that we have nothing and they have everything is absurd.

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        1 year ago

        I was homeless for 8 years, I went hungry so often that my sense of hunger all but disappeared, the furthest I’ve been from where I was born was 300 miles (and that was once), I’ve never traveled internationally and I probably never will due to financial reasons.

        To each according to need, from each according to means.

        They’re hoarding the fruits of the labor of the working class, the top 1% have more wealth than the rest of humanity.

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        1 year ago

        There are a lot of people that don’t have that as it becomes harder and harder for the rest of us to have that every day.