Billionaires shouldn’t exist.
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10 Richest Americans Have Gained $700 Billion in Wealth Since Trump Reelection
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Blue shell the rich.
And the ones that do should be magnanimous to a fault.
UI
"have gained"
That's an interesting way to phrase "have stolen".
Kill them
340,099,990 Poorest Americans have each given an average of $2000 to the 10 other people in the country so far this year.
Working as intended.
"It's the billionaires" is the answer to many of the world's worst problems.
Lol.
The collapse is inevitable.
Like, even a small child could sense it at this point.
The collapse is inevitable.
The Vanderbilts and Rockerfellers and JP Morgans weren't the ones bankrupted by the Great Depression. Elon Musk will not be the protagonist of the next Steinbeck novel. The "collapse" will just be further economic consolidation, until the people being squeezed are willing to resist their own exploitation as a collective unit.
If the stock market loses 90% of its value tomorrow, all that changes is valuation. The physical capital remains in the hands of the plutocrats as does the command over the bulk of human labor. And the pain we feel will be the consequence of policies they impose, not any real shortfall of goods or dearth of professional services.
Which is why we need to invest in non-capitalist owned economies. The more we grow these economies the more resilient the average person can be. Things like the CFNE need to expand https://cooperativefund.org/. More businesses need to be in a circular local economy where people's needs can be met without the wealthiest getting profits.
Your second paragraph explains exactly why they’re all so horny for AI.
Lot of rich cunts need to get Kirk’d.
If it makes you feel better, I've noticed a lot, lot more private security in the uber-rich neighborhood I have to pass to get to work.
They're scared.
Not scared enough.
10 Richest Americans Have ~~Gained~~ Stolen $700 Billion in Wealth Since Trump Reelection
Texas Can’t Keep Up with Surge in Workers’ Wage Theft Complaints
Research by Round and her colleagues found that TWC ordered $99 million in wages ordered due across over 57,000 cases between 2010 and 2020, but 80 percent of those wages had yet to be recovered as of 2024. The TWC told the Dallas Morning News in 2023 that it could not verify Rutgers’ findings since it lacked access to the methodology.
“Collections is a difficult problem. It’s like collecting against any debt. If the money’s not there, the money’s not there,” Round said. TWC’s current enforcement and deterrent tools vary. Penalties of up to $1,000 can be imposed on bad-faith employers, the agency can order the employer’s bank to freeze funds and turn them over, or it can file a lawsuit against the employer. A lien is also attached to an employer’s property after a final determination of owed wages, which could force employers to pay back owed wages if they try to sell the property. There are currently more than 11,000 active liens totaling over $127 million, according to state data.
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The number of investigators, however, is dwindling. As of earlier this year, there were just 611, the lowest point in decades nationwide, according to Rutgers University researchers. As of May 2025, there were only 68 federal investigators assigned in Texas—one for every 232,000 workers. A review of federal data shows that the total wages federal investigators ordered to be paid back in Texas is the lowest it’s been in 21 years at $7.5 million in the 2025 fiscal year, compared to tens of millions in prior years.
The more sickening part is since COVID which Trump had purposely let onto our shores has made the number of billionaires in America at that time which was around 450 now more than double and now nearly 1000 people in this country have a billion dollars. And these people made it by being really greedy jacking up the prices of everything. They will only ever take and never give anything back. There will be no schools, no auditoriums, no days of honor for this scourge. Time for them to get humbled.
I'm hungry for some baguettes and French onion soup
The poor & dimwitted rubes who voted for trump see this as a good thing. They claim to be Christian but really they worship money.
thats why POCs conservative thirst over rich old white people. they see being white and or rich as the epitome of success.
You mean the pigs have gotten fatter? They will make some good bacon.
Because they have been doing insider trading.
Oooooh, I hear it makes their flesh and liver taste super delicious.
I'd rather just use them as fertiliser.
Hmm that would be 7 years of snap benefits.
\70. The figures I have heard on NPR say that SNAP costs 100 million per year
It's 100 billion, if you actually heard million, someone misspoke. Don't listen when Dr. Evil talks about amounts of money.
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The robber barons are back! Or rather, they never left.
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.
Not shocking. Trump loves the wealthy.
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Any minute now that trickle down effect is gonna feel like a torrential down poor of cash. Yup. Any minute now.
It'll probably start right after these job creators finish creating jobs for some of those estimated 7+ million unemployed Americans that are actively looking for work.
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That's $2,000 per US citizen (approximately 350m People in the US)
So glad I went to college and grad school to get a job at a biotech, helping produce life saving drugs, just to barely live paycheck to paycheck with 5 digit credit card debt.
The amount of times I think about suicide is too high for my liking. Honestly why do people even have kids anymore. Fuck this place.
That's why I dropped out. Sophomore year, I was calling a bunch of places to get an internship, and the answer was always the same... "We only do unpaid internships, and you pretty much need a master's in your field to get in." I dropped shortly after that and saved myself from spending another 20 grand on a STEM degree that would get me less per hour than a pizza delivery driver.
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brother of Mario
History is full of former evil empires. USA is number one on that list. It is The most evil society ever build and the world would be bettet without.
It is The most evil society ever build
there are some pretty tight competitors for that spot if we try not to have a recency bias
Someone should slam them. Perhaps officials or maybe experts. That'll show em
Hmmm. And the poor have gotten poorer?
Almost sounds like theft.
Hey, nothing to see here, keep bitchin' at the people on food coupons...
It doesn't have to be violent.
It just needs leaders that believe in the state more than billionaires. Jack Ma and China is a great example of how a state can reign in billionaires without violence.
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