Why Do We Have A Trillionaire ?
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The reason poverty exists in the wealthiest country on Earth is not because we can’t feed the poor. It’s because we can’t satisfy the rich.
ElonMusk is about to become the first trillionaire. He’s about to make more money than every elementary schoolteacher in America combined. Do we really believe one man is worth more than every elementary schoolteacher? Why do we have a trillionaire when there are kids without enough to eat? Why do we have a trillionaire when cancer patients are going bankrupt?Why do we have a trillionaire when veterans are sleeping out on the street?
I’m all for success, but this is not success.This is hoarding. What leads a person to accumulate more money than they could possibly spend in a hundred lifetimes when there are people starving in this one? The reason poverty exists in the wealthiest country on Earth is not because we can’t feed the poor. It’s because we can’t satisfy the rich. But what we can do is tax trillionaires out of existence.>> [applause]>>
And use that money to guarantee food, health care, and housing for every single American.
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America is a far cry from "From each according to their abiities, to each according to their needs" - a society wherein no child goes to bed hungry, where every person has adequae health care, i.e. a utopian society. But I cannot boast about Canada, having just read a news story that a man in Edmonton had serious chest pains, was driven to the hospital, but waited so long to be seen by a doctor died in the Emergency Room.
Where is my DOGE check?
Any minute now. . . 'somebody' will chime in (like clockwork on articles about poverty vs wealth) with a statement about class warfare. . . .That is, they will suggest (ad nauseam) that the working poor, the 'unlucky,' and otherwise 'afflicted' with life circumstances should work HARDER (and harder still)-even though that won't work to get them that Success they crave out of life and maybe no closer to sufficiency.
"Class warfare" . . . it's coming. It's a tactic used to divide us and quiet the masses (to accepting their poor fates in life).
Friend CB said:
Inside the old rubric "it takes two to make a fight" is contained the concept that there can only be warfare when you have "sides", and therefore I would agree that the "class warfare " arguments come as a tactic to draw attention to the differences, real or perceptual, that exist. As a red herring, the “class warfare” argument attempts to reframe the debate away from substantive questions—such as whether existing distributions make sense or whether the mechanisms producing them are defensible—and toward specious claims about who is being “divisive” simply by noting differences.
The idea of classes of people is as old as any hierarchical structure of society and has to do with the division of whatever the particular society defines as "wealth". This wealth can be thought of as bringing about ease of living. These arguments about the different classes can originate from anywhere across the spectrum, but usually most of the status quo arguments come from the people who have the wealth and not the people who do not have the wealth.
Personally, I find nothing inherently wrong with being wealthy. Beyond a certain point, however, there has to be some degree of giving back to the societal structure: the laws, the infrastructure already in place and even placed as a result of direct lobbying of the government. The question that always bedevils us is where do we draw that distinction? How do we, as a society, create some logical and real standard of "Too Much"?
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IF ONE SPENT 1000 DOLLARS PER MINUTE HOW LONG WOULD ONE TRILLION DOLLARS LAST?
Welcome to capitalism
And we can believe and count on the wealthy (collectively) having "agency" to put out the talking point (usually through the GOP and its thinktanks) that discussions of wealth "indulgences" are prohibitive and should be immediately quieted (or shutdown). The tactic also goes on (drones on) about REDISTRIBUTION. Though, no one wealthy is complaining about how they ask for and get excesses given to them. . .through hook or crook!
Case in point:
Born Rich (2003 Full Documentary)
I have posted this 2003 DOCUMENTARY film by the heir to the Johnson and Johnson fortune several times on NT, only to have it 'shutdown' by somebody posting that it is a film about "class warfare" implying that viewing the DOCUMENTARY film should be dismissed (entirely). It is literally done by the HEIR to Johnson and Johnson himself.
And note the date I mentioned 2003 and still it remains in 'plain' sight with all its exposures and plain-talk about Ivanka Trump, and multiple other millionaire kids explaining how wealth privileges them personally and professionally (even when it is not a matter of merit).
Usually, somebody (a conservative here) will try to squash viewing it with their rhetoric about it being a film about class warfare. Despite the film documentary being written, voiced, and produced by Jamie Johnson, the great grandson of the founder of Johnson and Johnson and 'friends.'
It speaks volumes—if viewed. Of course, it speaks 'nothing' if dismissed wholesale.
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Notice in the video how privilege and wealth is an 'easement' to the wealthy to get more, while at the same time they give yes to causes, but they also take "times" the excesses.
IMPORTANT: My posting this is not about jealousy or envy (or class warfare) it is simply to point out that even the wealthy know the have more than they can use. . . and yet, capitalism permits it. Why not just 'get rid' of some of that excess by paying 'back' more of it to our society?
Whatever that means. Apparently, MAGA supporters like their 'station' in life-whatever it is to 'be.' Then. . .on the other-hand, MAGA supporters largely do not care that Sandy Hook kids are dead along with many, many, other children because of 'free and supported' gun laws which do not allow for much (if any substantial) control over the use of them. And vaccines, . . . apparently MAGA supporters feel it is "Okay!" to just die and be dead as a consequence of getting CURABLE sickness or diseases!
MAGA = A culture of Death, Twisting in the Wind, and Suffering!