treesquid

joined 2 years ago
[–] treesquid@lemmy.world 2 points 13 minutes ago

Or were unable

[–] treesquid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

The cluelessness here is hilarious. The rich have all the money, they just don't want to pay. The entirety of the middle class makes a tiny fraction of what the rich who reap all the benefits do. The "welfare states" only exist because the rich have taken all the money that would have gone to their employees and allowed them to pay for the services that the government now provides. Generational wealth should be the norm, comfortable livings should be the bare minimum. The rich are still making all the money, they're richer than ever, they just aren't paying back into the system that provides them with immense wealth and protects it. They're freeloading pieces of shit and it's amazing that they have smooth-brained sycophants even among the poors that they exploit.

None of those parasitic gremlins would have anything if it weren't for the middle class generating it for them, both creating and consuming. Your completely insane solution is to attack the source of wealth rather than the leeches siphoning off the vast majority of it while putting in comparitively negligible effort. The middle class is sharing a dwindling portion of generated wealth as the rich get richer and here you are saying the solution is to make the middle class poorer still.

So no, the middle class should not be paying more to prop up the system that already gives almost all of the fruits of its labor to a small pack of assholes whose primary qualification is being born into enough money to already have the road to success paved for them, people who have no more intelligence or ability than the rest of us and who, if born into lower social strata, would not have the ability to leave it because of sabotage by people like you.

The ultra-rich don't earn their money, they just get it by dipping into our collective wallets. They can get a little bit less so the wheels on the bus keep spinning and allow the workers to continue providing them with private jets and collections of vacation homes.

[–] treesquid@lemmy.world 70 points 2 days ago (5 children)

It doesn't look like it came out of Cyberpunk, literally every vehicle in that game looks way cooler and more advanced. The Cybertruck looks like it came from a "futuristic" wireframe video game from 1985. It's obviously trying to play off DeLorean vibes, it's made as nostalgia for a 40-year old vision of a future that never came. It's like if someone made a 50s rocket-punk styled car in 1990, it's just a botched anachronistic mess, more past than future.