rbreich , to Random
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Wondering if wealth inequality is out of control?

Well, Jeff Bezos made over $7.9 million an hour last year.

In just 13 minutes, he made the equivalent of what a typical person earns in a lifetime.

Don't tell me that the rich can't afford a wealth tax.

PeachMcD ,
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@rbreich
Saw a newspaper story today about how is going to close about 20 schools to plug a budget gap 💔

live in bc there's no

If they were hoarding anything but wealth we'd recognize how pathological it is but NO we put them on the covers of magazines & kiss their asses
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rbreich , to Random
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How Wall Street Priced You Out of a Home | Robert Reich https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9TOGxDJ0TE&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

TrueBlue4THREE ,
@TrueBlue4THREE@mastodon.social avatar

@rbreich

The wealthy want to rule/CONTROL Everyone and Everything. The middle class/working class that has always held society together is virtually nonexistent now, choked out gradually for years by the entitlement of the affluent. Soon, there will only be the Rich and the Poor left.

🤔What comes thereafter is EXTREMELY unsettling to ponder.......
🏡🏠🏚

rbreich , to Random
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The world's billionaires now hold a combined $14.2 trillion in assets.

That exceeds the GDP of every country in the world except the US and China.

And we’re supposed to believe the ultra-wealthy can’t afford a wealth tax?

PeachMcD ,
@PeachMcD@union.place avatar

@rbreich

I want to normalize/popularize connecting with an image of a bloated

If can compare minority groups to , so can I

There's not really very many of those ticks, but they're sucking the blood out of our Body Politick
Out of our
Out of our
So many needed resources, hoarded for what?
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georgetakei , to Random
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You can't fool us, Donald. https://secondnexus.com/trump-claims-abortion-state-law?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

6G ,
@6G@mastodon.social avatar

@georgetakei

RE
You can't fool us, Donald

Why that's the only thing he does, is to try to fool us

Run Back to
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-billionaires-taxes-low-fundraiser-1235000282/

Military Generals Side with
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/profoundly-ahistorical-4-star-generals-side-with-jack-smith-tell-supreme-court-trumps-immunity-claims-are-assault-on-democracy/

, No Sense of Decency, Sir?
https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/welch-mccarthy.html

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