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    17 days ago

    Unfortunately, that very rational thought is not how the United States works. We end up sitting around pointing fingers and nothing ever changes.

    My only solution involves getting rid of billionaires, a seemingly unpopular opinion in America.

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      17 days ago

      Yeah pretty much all the issues in the country boil down to the accumulation of massive wealth in the hands of a few people and any solution that isn’t directly addressing the system that allows that is just a bandaid.

      Unfortunately the answer is going to be organizing locally and working to educate people on what the actual causes of their problems are which is going to take time. The only silver lining is the systemic problems will become increasingly difficult to ignore which creates the opening for change, we just need to be ready to seize that opportunity.

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        17 days ago

        What we need is an actual leader. One who isn’t trying to get elected to anything and isn’t afraid to point out the obvious solution without being vague.

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      The people who want to get rid of the rich are the same people who are jealous they aren’t rich themselves.

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        I disagree. Rich isn’t millions. It’s billions. No person needs a billion dollars, and you don’t get a billion dollars by contributing to humanity. You get it by cheating, stealing, and abusing a corrupt system. People who don’t want to get rid of them want to be them, and have the false idea that one day they can.

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          16 days ago

          Lots of people would consider anyone who’s a millionaire to be “rich”.

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            There’s a big difference between having millions and having billions. No one should have enough money to buy a small country, or… spend hundreds of millions on influencing politics. Or, buying 100 houses without making a dent in your pocket.

            That’s, as they say, “fuck you money.” No one needs that kind of money.

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                    15 days ago

                    The rich want you to think anyone who doesn’t live paycheck to paycheck is rich, so you fight them, when the real problem is much deeper. But I can understand how these concepts elude you. They do a good job at brainwashing.