Billionaires used to build libraries and hospital wings, now they just buy politicians.

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• MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  I’m sure it’s true.

  However, currently in Boston(U.S.), there are new hospital buildings going up at Mass. General Hospital and Dana Farber Cancer center that have Billionaire names attached.

  A few more in the near pipeline.

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• Mac@mander.xyz ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Public opinion used to matter, now they onow that they can get away with quite literally whatever they want.

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  • yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If they can do anything, and we know humans are corrupted easily when given so much power, is there any other option to stop them, other than death?

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    • AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You say this as if that weren’t the desirable option…

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• jbrains@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Threaten the guillotines more aggressively. That’s what worked previously.

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  • moustachio@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Better yet, start forming / joining militias, so we have some working class mobilization efforts going on.

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• Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Billionaires used to build libraries and hospital wings

  Interesting. I don’t think I’ve ever seen Rupert Murdoch laying down bricks. Are you sure those libraries weren’t build by workers?

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• jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Wealth redistribution, American style

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• Radical_Socialist_t00t@lemmy.ca ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Isn’t capitalism great? Aren’t you glad we’re not doing the Scientific Socialism thing?

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  • cavitationfetishist01@quokk.au ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There are so many alternatives that aren’t definitely this bad that we aren’t trying.

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  • Racoonwithbenefits@lemmy.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Tbh america should just rebuild their democratic system so it works for multiple parties

    In my country we got over 10 political parties parliament

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    • regedit@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Unfortunately, laws are only able to be changed by the same group that stands to lose if something like that law gets passed. The system all but guarantees a two-party system eventually.

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• nkat2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Therein lies the problem.

  Thank you for sharing this, OP.

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• cavitationfetishist01@quokk.au ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They have forgotten the guillotine, and only have deranged fantasies of the assassin’s bullet.

  It is on all of us to remind them.

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• K1nsey6@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They rewrote the tax laws to get the tax breaks where they didnt have to do philanthropic works

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• boletus@infosec.pub ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This goes to show America is a democracy for coorporations only. If you are a natural person, you are merely a wage slave.

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• adarza@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  if you wanted a single image or chart or graph to illustrate what happened and when, to get where we (the u.s.) ‘are’ today…

  this is it.

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  • Janx@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The wage gap between working people (the 90%) and the ultra-rich (the 1%) is also pretty comprehensive:

    Image

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• boltzbruh@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  JFC. Would be interesting to have this adjusted for inflation as well!

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  • DokPsy@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You know, I don’t think inflation will make much of a difference in this case

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