Everyone is interpeting the comic wrong, shitty title most likely.
Lions = billionaires
Gazelle = workers
Why do the workers need education? To be taught to accept their place in the food chain. It's about propaganda, not taxes.
140 4 ReplyI like your interpretation but the title is literally the title the artist gave it. I'm not sure who is right, the artist or the observer.
26 0 ReplyCouldn’t it be that charity donations are tax deductible?
10 0 ReplyThe artist posted it? Well lemmy play my "art is interpreted by the viewer" card then.
Otherwise, 🤷♂️
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This, they only tell you "Oh Gates dropped out and he became the richest man!"
In order to instill you with the idea that the rich are great men who can do the impossible and get good results...
They keep quiet that he dropped out of Harvard and his Mother gave him a contract because she owned IBM.
20 0 ReplyWhat is the interpretation of the people that think it is tax related?
3 0 ReplyNot even fair there tho, in nature predators maintain a stable environment by regulating prey populations to sustainable sizes.
An equivalent under capitalism would be stronger anti-monopoly law and laws imposing heavy regulation on businesses above a given size within their respective markets.
A big hunter that keeps grazers at a size that doesn't allow them to begin just eating everything and starving everyone else out while depleting the resource well for all.
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ah yes, refuse to fund the schools with taxes and let the religious institutions do it. This is why Americans are generally thought of as 'well-educated' on the world stage.
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77 7 Replythe lions here aren't the government they're corporations
34 1 Replyits funny how it works both ways. I could easily see this comic on an right-wing facebook page in the USA in favor of 'school vouchers'
19 1 ReplyI guarantee you the government is not run by the workers.
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Americans are nowhere near the top anymore, on any recent metric I’ve heard.
26 5 ReplyThat’s because you have to use imperial to measure American success ;)
32 1 ReplyThey're not first in school shootings?
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I'm sure this is going to be a level headed rational discussion about taxes by all the knowledgeable skilled tax professionals in lemmy.
69 9 ReplyI glossed over the tax implications and went straight to the indoctrination of the masses into the ideals of capitalism
63 2 ReplyI mean on one hand I agree with you. But on the other I don't think you need to be a "tax professional" to have a valid opinion on taxes.
Like I'm sure you express opinions you are not a leafing expert on right?
24 1 ReplyActually I try to go out of my way to not have opinions on complicated technical subjects I know nothing about. Tend to defer to whatever the experts' consensus is. It's shocking to me how few people do that.
Edit - lol at the downvotes, thanks for proving my point.
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I'm surprised you think it's the tax deductions that are the issue here.
15 0 ReplyI don't think they're an issue at all.
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One of the first things to do with complex and nuanced topics is to express them in comics.
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Be warned to anyone who might go check this out.
This is a #VERY NSFW comic.
23 0 ReplyAnd a fantastic one at that
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What is this Libertarian bullshit doing here?
27 23 Reply"corporations shouldn't be allowed to have influence over what content is taught in schools" is "libertarian bullshit"?
40 3 ReplyCorporations collect taxes?
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Libertarians are the ones worshipping the lions that eat them, this comic is satirizing libertarians.
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