Being a billionaire in the United States feels basically identical whether you have $10B or $100B, but feels very different if you can sexually harass your au pair and she can quit and get a different job vs if she is desperate to keep her job and has to put up with it because the economy is shit.
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it is because they want to impoverish the country! they don’t want high end manufacturing. they want americans working subsistence wages making t shirts and clothes hangers
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https://virginiahumanities.org/2016/05/flip-side/
https://bsky.app/profile/scrapplebottom.bsky.social/post/3llzi2eamdc2l
A strong economy, rule of law, freedom of speech, functioning democracy, good education, bodily autonomy, DEI, #metoo, “wokeness”—these are all threats to someone like Trump. Thus they must be destroyed.
But also $5M people still pay attention to Costco prices and their kids' expenses
Has me wondering about whether we can keep exporting our trash, though, and if that might push through some more alternative building materials? I was seeing neat possibilities with trash bricks.
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those memes actually have some truth to them, that once you gain enough wealth you see yourself as a primal horde ur father / cronus / saturn
who can just “eat” rivals or pay them off to be “cronies” … well you become an awful person into domination
It makes the case for a post-capitalist technofeudalism extremely well.
https://youtu.be/gqtrNXdlraM?si=bEiDfCye_qSLZc4z
Taking office politics out of the equation highlights their failures and shows that they are not in fact where they are due to merit.
Wait, no
Go Right Wing, go more broke.
They'd probably swear oaths of poverty or even cover themselves in fire ants in a society in which *that's* what maximized their power over other humans
"Ours, the richest country in the world, may be the poorest in memory." (Foreword to the 1986 edition.
May history repeat itself before they get their robot armies 😆
Sure, we might be giving them a chance to enslave their au pair, but we're destroying the world economy to do it.
I think it's simpler than that: They thought Trump would cut their taxes again.
The solution? Make them economically insecure and unable to engage in political action. Then you have free reigned to do as you please.
Conservatives=until they reach employment age
MAGA= or if they’re one of those people
https://bsky.app/profile/miserableharlot.bsky.social/post/3llzjvr43t22a
More than likely fathers will sell off their pretty daughters to the highest bidder or human traffickers and the others will provide janitorial services.
Wealth that can be traded for goods is one kind of satisfaction, but wealth that gives power over people is absolutely corrupting.