all 4 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] 20 points 5 months ago

I'm so sick of this anti-billionaire bias. Just because I'm a billionaire doesn't mean I'm not being fairly compensated for my work and what I provide for society at the grocery store. Incidentally, I need to get these Iranian rials converted back into USD.

  • source
  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    It's this insane 'Atlas Shrugged' mentality, calling them the 'parasite class' is, in fact, much more honest.

    By exploiting the working class, they steal the profit that should have been given to those who actually created the wealth.

    They don't invent things, they don't create things, they don't support people. They just take.

  • source
  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

    Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

  • source
  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    business owners hold jobs hostage

  • source
  • 3 comments in c/latestagecapitalism@lemmy.world view that post
    [–] 19 points 5 months ago

    Billionaires are parasites. They don't produce anything of any value - they've just gotten themselves into a position from which they can siphon off the value that other people do produce.

    And like all parasites, if left unchecked, they will destroy their hosts.

  • source
  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    It's like CEOs that are paid tens to hundreds of millions of dollars. You know you can pay people who are probably more competent for way less!

  • source
  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    Yeah, we need some jobs where I live, common "make" them now, rich people!

    They are just sitting in the middle skimming off profit.

  • source