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jpreston2005@lemmy.world 1 year agopeople need to learn that 99% of the populations health, education, freedom, and happiness is being actively sabotaged by 1% of the people. If that 1% was anyone but the rich and powerful, we’d have done something about it by now. You shilling for our continued subservience is pathetic.
Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Facts before feelings. Many of the people here downvoting me genuinely think people like Bezos or Musk are just sitting in a pile of cash choosing to hoard money instead of helping the less fortunate.
Also - you’re part of the 1%. What are you doing to help the 99%?
Tavarin@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Musk managed to get his hands on $44 billion to buy twitter pretty easily. They may not be sitting on a literal pile of cash, but the ultra-wealthy can always get easy access to it.
And Bezos had a take home amount of $4 billion in 2019, not his stock, his take home cash for one year. That’s an absurd amount of money.