• Mindlight@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Greed and people not understanding that it’s not a coincidence that there is 1% owning 99% of wealth. A large majority of the 1% are not “self made men” that “built an emporium from nothing”.

    I’m not talking about some communistic solution where we hunt down Elon Musk and take everything from him.

    I’m just say saying that it’s fucked up that a lot of people think it’s ok that Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Steve Bezos etc have or have had periods where they built extreme wealth and paid no taxes at all.

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      1 year ago

      So essentially, capitalism.

      You can’t take something from someone that wasn’t really his. The wealth was extracted from the labor of hundreds of thousands of workers… We’d just be taking it back.