When I posted my EAT THE RICH shirt on Instagram a while back, of course some Facebook dullards were like “how much do YOU make Rob??” or “didn’t you work for a rockstar??” People have no comprehension of how vastly asymmetrical the power is in this country. And that’s by design.
https://twitter.com/buckycapped/status/1437883298823483397
The design is to keep us tearing each other apart while the very few sit at the top pulling the strings and funneling more and more wealth and concentrating more and more power. And the more incomprehensible their wealth gets, the better this design works.
Exactly this. The “but Bernie Sanders stays in nice hotels” brigade. The “temporarily embarrassed millionaires” of America who still think going after billionaires is somehow an attack on their personal ambitions. Can’t eat the rich when we’re so busy eating each other.
https://twitter.com/thevapent/status/1438025172900925441
And none of this is to be like “we shouldn’t tax rich actors, they’re not the problem” of COURSE millionaires need to pay more taxes, that’s a given, but it’s small potatoes compared to what we’re really talking about when we say we want to go after systemic wealth inequality.
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