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Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.
I agree. My real abhorrence, however, is for the countless bootlickers who themselves live in near poverty yet loudly support their overlords in a sycophantic and unquestioning fashion. These class traitors, masquerading as real Americans are as culpable as the mentally deranged hoarders they prop up.
I don't feel like there's a way to get through to these sheep-like collaborators, so it's difficult to imagine anything will change in the near future.
they have been isolated by our mass media environment being hyper individualized, and gaslit into believing that their overlords and our overlords are a different set, and that we worship ours and the only counter is to empower theirs to combat ours. it will possibly take years of deprogramming to get them out of this. the best thing you can do is produce and disseminate propaganda that normalizes a true narrative: that left and right, male and female, islam and christianity and judaism, Black and white, rural and urban, gay and straight, are all distractions from up and down. how we fight our oppressors is through solidarity of the underclass. blaming people instead of helping people different from ourselves is how we lose.
you won't be able to reach all of them, but you will reach some of them. they really don't know they've been tricked
“Temporality embarrassed [mb]illionaires” in their minds.
i was excited until you said taxation :p
They should be, but they wont because their wealth and our system allows them to make the taxation laws. There is only one realistic way out of this one.
Since it seems your use of obesity is causing some concern, perhaps it’s more appropriate to say “financial gluttony” as a more accurate phrasing?
A distinction without a difference. One is the process, the other its outcome.
Obesity is a problematic state for an entity to be in, and attempts to reframe it as normal only manifest as harm.
Where I see potential validity in criticism is the flawed definitions used for medical classification, but that’s an issue for the medical profession to reckon with and address.
With the silly reactions to my suggestion even though I have no issue with your wording, I feel stupid trying to hold a discourse here, but regardless...
The distinction is gluttony is an active action, a decision, to consume more than needed, and a sin in religious contexts.
Obesity is a state of being, correct, but can be out of a person's control medically, I believe (I’m no doctor).
I’m sure the rhetoric brigade will attack this as well, though. So much for quality interactions of the fediverse.
It can be out of a person's control... and it's still bad for them. Nobody here is saying that fat people are bad people, people are saying that fat is bad for people.
Financial obesity makes it seem like it’s the same as being fat, which doesn’t make sense because being fat is not a specific problem in the same way that being rich is.
I’m sure you just mean it like “fat cat” but it’s a bizarre way to phrase it since it isn’t a good analogy.
I think it's just meant as a way to reverse the usual assumption that it's a desirable state, it puts it in terms that imply you have too much and it's not good for you.
For fuck sake, can you keep your fatphobia out of things for five minutes?!
Calm down, fatty