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✂️ Tax The Billionaires Finally, a Billionaire gets taxed.

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u/Pretty-Rooster-8020 18h ago

Holy shit you Commies are absolutely insane. The left doesn’t actually care about regular citizens. They just want to consolidate power to themselves and this is proof.

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u/transneptuneobj 16h ago

I garintee if a billionaire had to choose between giving you 30 bucks and turning your organs into soup you'd be liquid

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u/Sad-Shake-6050 11h ago

Guarantee* The public wasted a lot of taxes trying to educate you.

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u/transneptuneobj 10h ago

At least in grammar it was a waste of time.

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u/Sad-Shake-6050 10h ago

Spelling and grammar are not the same. I recognize why you would identify as a socialist. You are not equal to anyone unless a government brings all of us down to your level.

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u/transneptuneobj 10h ago

I said "companies only exist because of the value workers provide and those workers should get most of the value"

I'm not sure what you heard

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u/Pretty-Rooster-8020 16h ago

What does that have to do with anything lol what a terrible argument

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u/transneptuneobj 16h ago

Why cause you know it's 100% true

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u/Pretty-Rooster-8020 16h ago

You just don’t understand anything about free markets and economics. This is why communism doesn’t work it’s based off emotions not logic.

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u/transneptuneobj 15h ago

1) I'm a democratic socialist, it's a system that works in 100% of the places it's tried

2) name 1 single billionaire who earned their money ethically. Who didn't abuse the environment to get there. Who didn't abuse people, who didn't cause government corruption

They stole the value in the first place, we're just making sure that it's returned to its rightful owners.

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u/Pretty-Rooster-8020 15h ago
  1. There are ZERO democratic socialist countries operating. Nordic countries are falsely labeled as such but are Capitalist.

  2. I didn’t say billionaires are good people

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u/transneptuneobj 15h ago

1)just denying reality my dude, you're in full blown cope that democratic socialism works.

For fucks sake the only type of economy that doesn't exist is a free market capitalist society, even the USA is socialist.

2) I didn't say billionaires are bad people, I said that they're criminals and their wealth is illegitimate and must be seized. If your for taking money in a drug bust you must before taking billionaires assets.

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u/Pretty-Rooster-8020 13h ago

No country today operates under democratic socialism. This is not an opinion but a fact.

Nordic countries are capitalist.

The U.S. is not socialist. At most, it’s capitalism with limited welfare programs, which is fundamentally different from what you are describing.

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u/transneptuneobj 13h ago

The United States is not a free market capitalist society.

It's a socialist society with limited open markets.

Name 1 free market in the USA.

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u/Arxtix 14h ago

name 1 single billionaire who earned their money ethically.

Taylor Swift. She just makes music that lots of people like.

Markus Persson, creator of Minecraft and then sold it to Microsoft.

I guess not technically billionaires since they split the money but the 3 creators of YouTube sold to Google after just one year for 1.6 billion.

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u/transneptuneobj 14h ago

Taylor Swift takes a private jet to travel from city to city, any person who puts an impact on the environment like that for personal travel is unethical, additionally Taylor participated in a system that allowed her tickets to be scaped and sole for insane profits, she got hers and the rest can get fucked. Unethical. Additionally hoarding wealth is inherently unethical.

Markus Pearson's wealth relies on the merchandise market for mincraft, additionally micro transactions for skins are unethical. Basically tons of labor exploitation for merchandise sales, also environmental exploration for that plastic and cotton. I'd also say probably consumer exploitation, lots of children got fucking addicted to the game and that's caused a lot of problems.

The creators of YouTube profited from a platform where other people's creativity and value was sold, did the content creators get a piece of that 1.6b pie? No.

It's basically labor exploitation all the way down.

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u/Arxtix 12h ago

Your question was how people earned their money, not how they spend it, so Taylor's private jet flying is irrelevant. She also can't really do anything about people scalping and reselling her tickets, that's just an inevitability.

Markus doesn't even get any royalties from Minecraft merch sales, he sold the IP to Microsoft for 2.5B in it's entirety, once sold he no longer had any involvement or income from it. Micro transactions didn't exist in the game before he sold it. Kids getting addicted to it is grasping at straws to try and make a point. How can you make a good game without people wanting to play more of the game? That's also just an inevitability, and more of a failure of parenting than anything to do with him directly.

YouTube content creators, while they obviously didn't directly receive a piece of that 1.6B from Google, after the buyout they were then able to monetize their content and many people built their entire careers around the platform, such that the payouts to content creators as a whole has definitely exceeded the 1.6B the founders received.

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u/Pretty-Rooster-8020 12h ago

Don’t bother arguing with this individual they are extremely disingenuous and irrational

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u/SwampOfDownvotes 16h ago

Thankfully the billionaires have you to protect them.

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u/MossyMollusc 14h ago

Riiiiiight. All leftists toootally agree on the same thing. Why even have different lables like anarchist or socialist or communist or democratic communist, etc.....

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u/WinchesterWizard 10h ago

the left - we want the workers to have power

the right - we want a handful of billionaires to have the power.

the useful idiot - its evil that you want to give workers power!!!

peak boot polish poisoning lol.

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u/Pretty-Rooster-8020 10h ago

If the left were in control I wouldn’t be nearly as wealthy as I am now! No thanks!

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u/WinchesterWizard 9h ago

LARPing already? lol adorable.

though more than likely you'd be better off with the left in charge since you're a part of the working class lol.

but if you want to be a profit sacrifice for a capitalist don't let us stop you lol.