If the ultra rich say your idea will ruin the economy - congratulations, you’ve got a great idea.
Hey y’know what other famously French thing will be deadly for rich people if they’re not taxed?
Wealth tax or Guillotine?
Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
I like that term. Gonna call it financial obesity from now on.
Fuck off rich asshole. Tired of them acting like they know better.
Tax wealth not work.
wealth taxes and handouts to the people would stimulate consumerism and make the economy run hot.
We should push the trickle up method.
You give all the cash to the poor and middle class, they guy all the goods from the wealthy and they get their money back. Easy Peasy
Maybe the evaporation method
trickle up method
yep, 100%, i gotta remember that phrase.
Yes, but have you given a thought to those poor billionaires?
Did anyone actually ask him?
“Rich guy says that forcing the rich to pay for their fair share of the costs of having a Society where they can make lots of money, would actually be bad for those currently having to make up for the rich not paying their fair share”
His source is he made it up.
Actually it has some factual basis. He’s wealthy, it would be bad for him, he thinks he’s the economy. He just has a big, selfish, ego.
It could actually be true in the sense that producing 1mil things for 1€ each or producing a single overpriced luxury version of the same thing for 2mil€ is a 1mil€ difference in the GDP.
But I’d argue the first is still a better economy than the second. But economists will only like the second one.
These people have the same revenue as a small country, so I can see where they’re coming from.
I still think we should use their bodies as fertilizer.
Source: “trust me, bro”
Your honor I object!!
Why?
Because its devastating to my case!!!
Western society: “Overruled”
You see a lot of this coming from the rich and their lap dogs. But its never not been bullshit. Pick any country you want in the world. Force Amazon, for example, to pay its full share in taxes. The muppets will say “But then Amazon will leave, taking all those jobs with them!”. So… they would leave a space in the market, right? So someone else would come along and replace them. You can apply this to any industry that tries to scare people with “but X would leave”. Who cares? Theres always going to be someone looking to make money. And being able to make a fuck load of amazon money would be quite awesome. And thats even with paying fucking taxes.
And as for individuals threatening to leave X country, fuck um. We dont need them sucking up all the money anyway.
There needs to be an overhaul in our various societies. Its 2025, and the idea of billionaires in a world where children still starve to death is disgusting. No one needs billions. Hell, no one needs millions. The world, if we could all agree, should limit personal wealth to 100m. Thats it. Once you start earning, through any means, that puts your wealth, in any form, above that number, you pay a 100% tax rate. Or, you can just fucking retire, and let the next generation earn their fair share.
The poor are the majority. And the rich and powerful dont fear us nearly enough…
The muppets will say “But then Amazon will leave[…]"
Imagine being upset that the freeloader sleeping on your couch and eating all the food in your fridge without contributing anything leaves.
Isn’t he the asshole who said he would help pay for that famous church that burned down a while ago and never gave them a red cent?
He isn’t the economy. The workers are.
Yep. Bad for the economy, good for the people.
Yacht sales will plummet by 5% though!
I think you are confused, why would it be bad for the economy?
“The economy” = rich people’s yachts.
But he’s a Job Creator or some shit
Cuase their job creators we have to treat them special. Job creators can’t go to jail or anything.
You know who else are job creators?
All of the people doing the actual work.
Vietnam would like a word.
Edit: I’m not pro death penalty (latest update has Vietnam actually removing it for this crime due to this case) but just showing the absolute night and day difference between how they treat capitalist that cause death and poverty through their greed.
When they inevitably try to pretend they are pulling business from new York when Mamdani becomes mayor. Please, everyone, use this as an opportunity to show how evil the structures of capitalism are.
It will be a perfect time to explain class conflict to your liberal friends. The interest of the people of New York will be held hostage by capital. And overwhelmingly popular policy will be talk about as “unrealistic” and “poor economics”.
Yes, that is why capitalist must lose their power. They are holding the popular policies of the people hostage. That power should not exist in their hands but the hands of the people.
Capitalism is incompatible with democracy. The economy and politics are not separate. We cannot have a dictatorship controlling our companies and economy and call it a “democratic process”.
Fellow socialist 🙌
Okay, but what if the financial sector launches a capital strike?
Cuba is a great example of the results. Powerful worker state, but it is bottled up and suffocated by the US led embargo.
France is not comparable to Cuba in this scenario
I mean you said it yourself, it’s an embargo. Good luck doing that to France.
Then the world must go on labor strike. Capital requires our consent. Withdraw consent, seize the means of production and begin the class war. We are outgunned, but they are outnumbered, and we can easily get more guns once they can’t get any more numbers.
Viva Revolución, Viva Cuba Libre!
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Bernard Arnault is worth 157.3 billion USD. $1 billion dollars is 0.6% of their wealth. That’s fucking couch change. These fucking ghouls are so worried about their precious wealth they are willing to doom all of us.
Plus, he looks like the end of a Q-tip.
Did they base Mr Mackey off a billionaire? “Gotta make my nut.”
