Thread by @Miryam1968

The speeches about the capital that millionaires contribute in taxes and how much the poor and the middle class receive from this forced generosity, are a whole literary genre … 🙄 the millionaire factory of #myths 🙄

What's more, this genre is cultivated above all by those from below, as the principle of the genius of propaganda Edward Bernays says: “you should never say that what you want to sell is good, but make others say it”.

That the poor and the workers (oh! excuse the redundancy) defend the rich as kind donors, is the direct result of such a publicity strategy and, as Bernays himself knew, it is not just a massive inoculation but an exploitation of the weaknesses of the consumer, as is the desire

to distinguish himself from his equals and, one day, even if it is a very distant day, to become part of that unattainable elite.

In reality, millionaires do not give anything to society. They only pay her back in taxes a fraction of what they've taken from her thanks to

her position of power in business (which is about the only way to get into the one percent club).!!

This return is conveniently described as "redistribution of wealth" as if it were a donation or a robbery that those below, the lazy workers, do to the self-sacrificing and intellectually gifted above.

But the very word hides the #truth.

It is not a "distribution" of the wealth produced by a small sector of society, but a "redistribution" of the wealth produced by the totality of society, not only the existing one but all the societies that preceded us and left it to the #future.

#Humanity a legacy of knowledge, discoveries, inventions, social struggles and progress …!!

In other words, every economic system is a system of redistribution of wealth, either from the top down through taxes or from the bottom up through production and consumption.!!

But social #myths are functional to power and, as such, they are a semantic mask, an ideological mirror that is responsible for reflecting reality, but in reverse.

Since in reality it is the millionaires who steal from the workers every day and in a massive way …

(they steal not only wealth but also political representation), the ideological narrative insists that those who want to take from the millionaires to give it to the poor are perverse with “ taxes that punish success.”

This is another myth deeply rooted in society,

a product of the same propaganda process of those who have disproportionate social power, that is, those who dominate the economy and finances, who own the big media or are their subsidiaries through payment advertising, who are overrepresented in politics.!!

The same logic leads many workers (especially in the #UnitedStates and its colonies) to repeat another myth:

It is the rich who create jobs. 🤣🤣🤣 It is the rich who create prosperity. 🤣🤣🤣 aaaaiiiiii!!!

Another #myth indicates that the rich are successful because they know how to compete … 🤣🤣🤣

Many of them can be creative, but their creativity is NOT invested in creating something new but rather in taking over what has been created.

Praise for private projects such as #ElonMusk's Space X is presented as the paradigm of private innovation. 🤮🤮

The #paradox is that his entire space project is based on almost a century of successes and failures of government space agencies such as #NASA,

the Space Program of the #SovietUnion and, long before, the discoveries and progress of the #Nazi government of #Germany. Hitler.

Space X not only uses all this accumulated knowledge & for which he did not invest a coin, but even the same NASA facilities and their money, that is

#TAX money.

The rich do not compete; they DESTROY the competition.
The rich do not create wealth; they ACCUMULATE it.
The rich do not create knowledge; they KIDNAP it.
The rich do not create ideas; they DEMONIZE them.

#LoudAndClear

Let us not be confused by media #propaganda or by the cultural industry.

The objective of every big business, of every great company, is neither to contribute an invention to Humanity nor to benefit anyone other than its owners through the sequestration & accumulation of wealth

resulting from a long history of technological and social progress, product of a vast effort by the rest of society with its public and private institutions.

Thinking otherwise is like insisting that the job of the fisherman who throws his nets into the sea is to reproduce fish.

Every mega-company is just that: a gigantic fisherman's net. Everything else is verse, and not the best.!!

The millionaires are justified only by their economic power, by the propaganda that transpires from this power and by the political power that they kidnap to

benefit their own businesses.!!

Do not be a fool! Think out of the box, open your eyes!