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[–] kelpie_returns@lemmy.world 249 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This reads like the wealthy realizing, in real-time, that the poor can't spend money they don't have, more than anything else. Like, no shit, dude.

Use your privileged position to make actual change if you care so much. He doesn't though, so he's not going to. Instead, he'll make sure we all know that we can get an entire combo for only $5. Wow! Truly a hero of the down-trodden, this fucking guy. I'd love to be proved wrong, but we all know where this is headed. His virtue signaling doesn't change that, just like it doesn't change that stunt he pulled with potus and all that it so clearly represented. Just more mealy-mouthed lies from another worm in a suit's all it is.

[–] rocket_dragon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 96 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This reads like the wealthy realizing, in real-time, that the poor can't spend money they don't have, more than anything else.

If only someone warned them about this!

[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah, that's like, the most classic of Marxism

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Pretty sure Adam Smith and Karl Marx both understood that one

[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Even Henry fucking Ford understood that

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 7 points 1 week ago

And he was a goddamned Nazi.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 3 points 1 week ago

I think a lot of capitalists would believe the two to be mortal enemies. I suspect that they would enjoy debating their ideas over a cup of joe and tea.

[–] gloktawasright@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Gone are the days of well educated elites. Now we have the scourge that is the putrified remains of ruling class’s shit.

Enlightened self interest? How about unchecked greed and moral bankruptcy instead?

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 34 points 1 week ago

Yeah, Ford was horrible, but that's one thing that's reasonable about Fordism. He knew that if he payed his employees well enough then they'd have money to spend. I don't know how the idiots who are wealthy today don't get that, but they assume their wealth is infinite and comes from nothing.