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  1. @TaxBillionairesNow welcome! I've been trying to push #EndBillionaires so I love your account name! :solidarity:

  2. Should billionaires, as a concept, be allowed to exist?

    #EndBillionaires

    (To be clear, I mean "should a single person be allowed to have a personal wealth of $1B USD or more", not "should we actually literally kill them" or anything like that.)

    I'm genuinely curious if anyone who answers yes can convince me I'm wrong. Or if I can convince you you're wrong. Genuine discussion welcome!

    I'll post some of my thoughts / answers to arguments I've heard in replies.

  3. If the ultra-wealthy love living in the United States so much, they can fucking pay a little bit more to do so.

    #TaxTheRich #EndBillionaires #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

  4. Billionaires hoard the value you create. Your work is their wealth. At the same time they reinvest enough of it to keep you subjected to their exploitation of you. Billionaires turn life, health, and the natural environment into death, sickness, and pollution so they can
    make more profit from destruction of the world that belongs to you.

    #EndBillionaires

    :mastodon:

  5. "When you look at the production of existential risk Its highly concentrated, its done for profit and its done in secret"
    I think I have my first man-crush. Luke Kemp is telling some stories I can get behind.

    #ExistentialRisk #EndBillionaires #Equality

    youtu.be/E9qDnPTCrgY?t=706

  6. RE: mastodon.world/@ApostateEnglis

    Yessssh

    #EndBillionaires

    I'm looking for a 25% wealth tax/year on families worth more than $200m, dropping to 5% when they're down to $78m.

    California is pondering a 1-time 5% tax on families worth us$1.1b. 60% of NY residents (not just NYC) favour free, universal childcare until pre-K, with an explicit tax on the rich to fund it.

    So, I want wayyy more, to end the 1%.

  7. Someone at Google posted a meme celebrating the possibility of Sergey and Larry becoming the first trillionaires, and I couldn't let that one pass by - it got an #EndBillionaires response with a little more text, and then I started getting replies from my supposedly intelligent colleagues basically arguing for trickle down economics. Didn't we debunk that decades ago? #ThisIsWhyWeCantHaveNiceThings

  8. RE: c.im/@cdarwin/1159238339773426

    #EndBillionaires

    I'm not sure this has any legs or is the right way to do it but something is better than nothing.

  9. I know y'all here in my timeline aren't their audience but... What the hell does it say about society that people pay $45 for chunky plastic "gold" chain jewelry toys at sporting events? That they'll probably throw in the trash (or at least a closet never to be seen again) within a week.

    #ExcessConsumption #PeakCapitalism #EndBillionaires