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   the merry leftist⛄️ (mnemosynesinger@kolektiva.social)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 22:48:02 JST the merry leftist⛄️

   Being poor is not a moral failing as the ruling class would have you believe, but hoarding absurd amounts of wealth while there's people going hungry sure as hell is.

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     Arthur_500 (arthur_500@noauthority.social)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 18:18:47 JST Arthur_500

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     @MnemosyneSinger

     Please explain this.

     When someone owns or controls huge companies that employ so many people, how is this a bad thing?

     The math is clear, you could take away all those companies from those billionaires and leave them with a paltry one million and it would last the gubmint eight days.

     Conversely, if the gubmint woudl stop stealing from the taxpayers there would be more money in the economy to employ more people. Capitalism gets people out of poverty.

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     the merry leftist⛄️ (mnemosynesinger@kolektiva.social)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 18:18:47 JST the merry leftist⛄️

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     @Arthur_500 I'm not explaining anything to anyone who says "gubmint" and thinks the civil war was a *puts on my southern accent* war of northern aggression lmao.

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     Phil Landmeier (shuttersparks@qoto.org)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 18:19:03 JST Phil Landmeier

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     @MnemosyneSinger I'm originally from Los Angeles. Living now for many years in West Virginia has been an education. A lot of poor people here. Most of them believe that poverty results from stupidity. They believe that rich people are, by definition, good people, hard working, honest, and blessed by God. If you drive up in a nice car wearing a suit, they'll believe anything to tell them.

     I'm sure this is the same in Kentucky, Tennessee, etc.

     This is a huge problem that has to be fixed, but I have no idea how. I frequently disabuse people of these utterly wrong beliefs, but I'm just one person and there are millions of them.

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 21:47:21 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     • Phil Landmeier

     @shuttersparks @MnemosyneSinger Very much yes. I drove Route 66, and much of the US is completely soaking in national mythology, including the idea that the rich got rich by doing the right things. Even my family in Florida can't shake this; they ran a veterinary clinic and see people like Bezos and Musk as people who took their personal high risk entrepreneurship and just "did it harder". I come home with tales of the corruption of Silicon Valley and they just ignore me.

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