Now to add some nuance… yall ready for the intersectionality politics?
What about black & non/white male billionaires? Who beat all odds & fought racism/sexism etc.. to get to where they are?
Does wealth & who deserves to have generational wealth matter?
What about black & non/white male billionaires? Who beat all odds & fought racism/sexism etc.. to get to where they are?
Does wealth & who deserves to have generational wealth matter?
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Not defending Jay-Z...just was curious after seeing your post.
He’s still a multi-billionaire. He still caused significant harm and exploitation to get said $.
Plus, he’s being named in an alleged child sexual abuse case alongside P Diddy.
https://bsky.app/profile/myraccoonhands.com/post/3lcq6yi22n22s
You can be a biracial, queen, holocaust survivor who donated organs, and pulled puppies from a fire.
You will still get eaten.
Multiple millions is plenty for anyone.
I got hit by a police car when I was 2 y/o. I should be a millionaire. I would be so good at it.
These assholes sit on piles of Scrooge McDuck money, and can only think of how to get more, squeezing every last drop from the regular people. It's not achievement, it's sickness.
“…In addition to accusations of a hostile work environment & sexual harassment, the suit brings claims for religious and racial harassment, false imprisonment, interference with prospective economic advantage & other allegations.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna95161
It’s almost like she’s posturing and trying to make herself feel better!
We were very clear when we all said there are no ethical billionaires.
“In one instance, the former dancers asked to be compensated for their downtime at a rate 50% of their weekly pay, according to the suit. An accountant allegedly responded to the request by offering 25% and scolding them for being ‘unacceptable and disrespectful.’”
I can remember when a company's bottom line suffered right along with everyone else's during a downturn. We can thank asshole Ronald Reagan for breaking the social contract.
https://youtu.be/V-mugKDQDlg?si=gTsAblncz2pb0ZVF
Beyoncé (to use a famous ex.) doesn't use sweat shops in Sri Lanka because she was pressured, but because it is the only way her business can be profitable.
Black capitalists will be as ruthless as withe ones, because if they didn't, they wouldn't be rich.
Becoming the problem doesn't change the problem.
It is still done using the labour of others and unethical.
Like…so extremely tone deaf.
1 - People will believe anything if you say it's "nuanced" and use language that seems anodyne
2 - Hey isn't this that Lizzo? The one who was cruel to her workers? Defending billionaires after "vanishing?" Wait what? Are people this gullible? Nuance, huh
So, there’s no billionaire that hasn’t been created by our anti-democratic legal regime & our currency issuing government 💵💵💵💵💵💵💵
https://youtu.be/yqTLfJS2yiE?si=FW_j3Br7rx1bpovj
Lyin' and thieving all their life.
Think all there is, is money
Got their future wrapped-up tight.
They think that life's just dollars
Won with greed and lust and spite
But I wasn't born to follow
Like to get my sleep at night
The only true wealth is knowledge and community.
Grow up.
Both poverty & billionaires are just policy choices
All of them made their money from our common social & physical infrastructure. None of them have paid their way, even when they are incredibly generous.
If we tax them heavily, they will still be just fine
Because we did when they were just millionaires in the 1950s and 60s. We built the interstate highway system. We sent people to the moon.
Let’s tax them and build up our social infrastructure this time.
How do we do all this without becoming Communist?
Idk all the answers, but that’s the conversation. 3/
But ALL wealthy ppl need to pay out to make that happen. Today’s land and team owners, don’t get poor overnight, but are paid for their losses. Payment come from all the billionaires. 2/
You don't understand class, and intersectionality is not about adding "identities."
Any billionaire created under capitalism is thru exploitation. Profit is value created by labor but unpaid to labor.
Seriously, this is dumb. "Oh, y'all think these people are bad? Well, what about... if they were black?"
Welcome the new boss same as the old boss
Every billionaire no exception is a policy failure and a drain on society
1 billion = 1000 millions. It's almost incomprehensibly big. Big enough for 1000 families to have generational wealth, in fact, if someone weren't hoarding it.
It’s not a flex.
And let's be clear: you don't need to be a billionaire to have generational wealth. The poorest billionaire can give away 90% of their money and still have generational wealth.
Which ignores the question of if generational wealth is good. No one deserves to be born wealthy.
Similar to how black cops are blue first, black second
There's no ethical way to have/earn/make a billion dollars.
Intersectionality is about the equitable distribution of our national currency that our government issues in our name.
It’s not about what color billionaires are
Our entire legal system is set up to suck income from the bottom of the economy to the top of the economy.
And our government prints up a ton of dollars and just gives them to the top of economy.
Plus, The Fascists aren’t gonna allow “the other” to keep their wealth
black billionaires are like that
Its not about generational wealth, it's about not exploiting other human beings.
Some rise against odds, to our surprise.
Through racism and fight,
They claim their own right,
Yet who holds the wealth, we still analyze.
making excuses for Black billionaires is just supporting the status quo. hoarding wealth is wrong no matter your race and gender. Black capitalism doesn't do shit to help Black people
Our government issues the laws that create billionaires too.
Billionaires always like to think that both our national currency and our laws just arise out of their private brilliance
The wealth accumulated by each billionaire regardless of race could create generational wealth for millions of families through fairer wages, affordable housing, freedom from for profit healthcare and access to affordable education…
having money to pass through your family is great, black people gaining the ability is amazing and impressive--but there is no need for a human or family to possess a billion dollars.
eat the rich, every last one.
No person should have a billion dollars.
Maybe you l lock in some special tax rate or get a free Blackhawk but after that, additional moneys go back to public service accounts (SNAP, etc)
It's like a monopoly game & it's done. Multi billions aren't necessary.
Nobody deserves generational wealth. Everybody deserves human rights.
But that also means assuming that all those who have suffered and died weren't good enough.
Being a billionaire is hoarding wealth and having power, it has got nothing to do with how one lives.
If you climb the mountain send ladders not more boulders.
I beg to differ…
Her money wasn’t obtained ethically. It’s good she’s giving it away, but it’s still not ethical.
Sources:
• https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/company-profile/amazoncom-inc
• https://www.greenamerica.org/blog/10-ways-amazon-violates-human-rights
• https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/09/ftc-sues-amazon-illegally-maintaining-monopoly-power
To me, he’s just another Elon Musk pandering to the liberal proletariat w desire for sycophantic praise, except he chose the opposite political spectrum
no billionaire "earned" their wealth. they stole it. they abused, they exploited. to suggest otherwise is itself a tool of those oppressive systems
Like, congrats, you beat racism and misogyny just to perpetuate the system that gave you such a hard time in the first place. Die.
Having that much money is voluntary, and it is always harmful to society as a whole.
It doesn't matter who you are, or where you come from you should not have that kind of wealth.
Retribution is not justice.
Billionaires are not the only means of creating generational wealth. In fact if they wanted to create generational wealth for the marginalized they wouldn't be billionaires for long
Wealth Disparity 101 with Professor Lizzo
Does that include Taylor Swift?
Her private jets are bad for the environment and re-releasing the same album with only one new song to make millions off her fans is ridiculous.
And if so, why?
Being a billionaire doesn't need to be unethical, and capitalism is still the best way for a person to financially succeed in life.
Our Constitution established our national currency as a Public Monopoly to further our General Welfare.
Billionaires like to think they create our national currency 😉
And to hoard the wealth inherited is to accept your legacy as a trash human being devoid of worth.
When I say eat the rich. I mean all of them. Every last one.