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[A thin boy in ragged clothing holds out a bowl to an overweight Elon Musk] Musk: Society needs billionaires, we keep you from starving. Boy: Please, I’m starving. Can you help me? Musk: Fuck you.

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  • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    My son’s high school has been without air conditioning for 2 years. I asked around the cost of repair is near 150k

    Of course this means our government is garbage, but at the same time there are 20 billionaires living in my city. You’d think one of these fucks would be like “fuck dude, no ac in the school?? I’ll pay that bill right away” but no, Thats not how they think

    • solidheron@sh.itjust.works
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      14 hours ago

      I hear something similar in small organizations. One guy can set up a mutual aid effort and someone else can do start a mildly controversial thing and you can see the attention get split.

      Something something billionaires are mentally ill

  • Hoodoir@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    Farmers keep people from starving. Governments subsidize farmers to keep prices low. Subsidies come from taxes collected from regular people. So people keep themselves from starving by helping farmers.

  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    Billionaire “charities”: The billionaires own your workplace. They underpay you but it would be even worse if you didn’t have any job, isn’t it? They sell you garbage products, but haven’t you thought that the fact everyone else also use them might be a sign that it’s actually good, you’re just too needy? They help fascists into power, but did you know that communism killed more by numbers? And no more vaccines for Africa, because they now want disease-driven eugenics.

  • Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca
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    17 hours ago

    Let me ask you a very simple question:

    How do billionaires keep people from starving?

    QUICKLY.

    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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      15 hours ago

      By not paying enough tax so that all schools can offer free meals.

      Do all schools have enough funds to offer free school meals? No? Tax wealth above 1bn until they do.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    “Poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich.”

    • tomiant@piefed.social
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      11 hours ago

      I always wondered when capitalism deems everything is good enough. Like does it have a goal state? Because I’ve played games that don’t have one and those always end with having to put more coins in the machine.

      • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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        10 hours ago

        The goal state is the same state of mind as that of the deranged cat lady who needlessly wants to own as many cats as possible and keep them all in her house.

        It’s a mental illness where the person collecting money and wealth only understands collecting more and more endless amounts of wealth and power … more than they can ever realistically ever enjoy in one lifetime.

        Think about it … it’s like wanting to horde bananas … the person keeps hording endless amounts of bananas until their banana pile is the size of Mount Everest and reaches into the clouds … but the person keeps wanting to add to the pile and not allow any else to touch their pile or take anything from it.

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    1 day ago

    Friendly reminder that over 4 million children are in the process of dying because of his actions cutting foreign aid.

    You have to be truly mentally ill, or something less than human, to be this kind of evil.

    • tomiant@piefed.social
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      11 hours ago

      You could be both indifferent and ignorant at the same time. No inherent danger in that unless you’re super rich and powerful and everything you do has global consequences.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      19 hours ago

      over 4 million children are in the process of dying because of his actions cutting foreign aid.

      They’re dying because we’ve ramped up arms exports to surrounding territories in the midst of a climate crisis.

      The idea that countries like Sudan and Libya and Haiti need USAID is predicated on us ignoring why they’re impoverished and war torn to begin with