It would really fucking help if we stop giving billionaires a god damn microphone. All these news sites and even social media shares. Stop it.
Oh, climate change issue?
Let's see what "self-made" billionaire CEO of Oilerson Oils, Oily Oilerson, grandchild of another billionaire, has to say.
"With these unprecedented times, we must bond together and move forward, else we move backwards."
Billionaires can use immigration to kill two birds with one stone.
First, immigration drives up housing prices because everyone needs it, and it can't be built overnight. The imbalance in supply and demand means landlords can extract even more materially from their tenants.
Second, it drives down wages by flooding the labor market with a high supply of people desperate to take whatever is offered to them. The imbalance in supply and demand means employers can offer low wages, and if you don't take it there's a line of people they can ask next.
Rent goes up, and wages go down. That's the fault of the 1%, not immigrants looking to make a better life for themselves.
The cherry on top is that were conditioned to respond to anyone who acknowledges this as a racist. If you want to avoid the label, you need to support tla policy that will push high rents higher, and depress low wages even farther.
The people at the top have a few economic levers they can push around to manipulate society reliably.
I was having a talk with my 73 year old dad the other night and he still swears up and down that it's the illegal immigrants crossing the border that are stealing all of our money. I asked him where he got this info from, he said he reads things on the internet. I had my laptop out and said "show me" and then of course he said "I don't know how to search for it!". I then told him that he was full of shit, he said the same things about the points that I was bringing up. I told him the difference between my points and his is that 95% of my points I can find a source for, his is always a form of "do your research!".
He said he never believes online surveys because he's never been asked to participate in one, so he thinks it's always a small perfectly chosen group of people in order to sway the results. I read him Pew Research's surveying methodology and they said that they have all the datasets available. I mentioned that the GOP is almost entirely white people, and he said "How come there were 'Black People for Trump' in the last election?". He wanted to know the results of a particular survey that had to do with politics, but of course wouldn't look them up himself so I registered for an account, downloaded the datasets and showed it to him. From 2018 until now the GOP has been almost entirely white people, from 88%-92%, it even said that a quarter of them were "males over the age of 65 who identified as Protestant".
Super simple analogy I like to use:
You're a kid and you go to a badly run daycare with nine other kids. Your parents pay for your stay and the person running it gets a daily shipment of food from that money, let's say, eleven sandwiches [a convenient but not perfect stand-in for workers generating the resources and value for the bourgeoisie]. He should keep one for himself and give ten to the kids, so everyone gets one sandwich, but instead he keeps six and gives all of you five, so you only get half each which is barely just enough. Now, five more kids join, their parents are also paying the daycare owner, and he now gets sixteen sandwiches per day. But he keeps the difference for himself and still gives you all five. Now you each only get a third of a sandwich, barely even a mouthful and you're hungry all the time. Do you blame the new kids for also being hungry and eating the food, or do you blame the daycare worker for hoarding all the food in the first place?
Poor people have shitty lobbyists -John Oliver
Income inequality can just be set through fiscal policy. It doesn't matter how much "cash" the rich want to hoard if they can't do it (as much) because it was already taxed.
We need to shift away from traditional coporate ownership and move towards worker cooperatives, consumer cooperatives, and/or syndicates. Labor ownership invariably leads to the accumulation of wealth as you make money off a larger and larger percentage of workers.
Convincing people that transwomen are women and transmen are men is right up there too.
Convincing everyone? Or just trying to convince the susceptible morons?
Also my weiner. ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)
The richest don’t hoard cash. Elon Musk isn’t the richest because he got lots of cash in the bank. He’s rich because he has a lot of Tesla stocks.
cop that, straight casssssh
That's because "the rich hoarding cash" isn't causing income and wealth inequality.
Also, income and wealth inequality is not, in and of itself, a bad thing. Income and wealth equality would be far, far worse than what we have now, even as corrupt as it is.
Effecting income and wealth equality necessitates violating people's rights to associate freely, trade freely, and own property. That will lead to complete societal collapse, and rather immediately. Nobody would do hard, dirty, or dangerous jobs anymore. We wouldn't have electricity. We wouldn't have indoor plumbing. We wouldn't have medicine.
