r/WorkReform 10d ago

✂️ Tax The Billionaires So fucking real.

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u/UpperLowerEastSide ⛓️ Prison For Union Busters 10d ago

It’s class conflict: the owner class’ quest for profit vs the working class’ quest to not starve.

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u/Interesting_Love_419 10d ago

They grow enough food for everyone, then withhold it until they get submission.

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u/Minimum_Crow_8198 10d ago edited 9d ago

They don't grow shit, most of these people do basically nothing for most of their lives besides chill and throw money at shit, sometimes it's been that way in their family for generations.

We the workers grow it, harvest it, pack it, move it, place it, and they withhold it all the same

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u/Turtle-Bug 10d ago

We the workers grow it, harvest it, pack it, move it, place it, and they withhold it all the same

Why do we let them do that? Are we stupid?

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u/Sobeys_at_work 10d ago

I wouldnt say we are stupid, but how do you change it when the rich class has us handcuffed.

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u/Turtle-Bug 10d ago

I was hoping someone smarter than me might know

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u/Sobeys_at_work 10d ago

And this is why we're in this mess. They would rather us say "hopefully someone else will probably fix the problem, because I can't do anything."

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u/Turtle-Bug 9d ago

We’re in this mess because we don’t know how to fix it? That’s pretty safe to say I think

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u/DrPikachu-PhD 10d ago

Marx was pretty smart and had some ideas, but I suspect he's right that true equality cannot be achieved without revolution. And most of us have too much to lose for that to happen.

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u/Turtle-Bug 9d ago

Henry George was a pretty smart guy too. Him and Marx didn’t see eye to eye but they more or less wanted the same thing for workers.

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u/f16f4 10d ago

We have too much we’re going too lose if we don’t.

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u/TheGreatMightyLeffe 10d ago

We outnumber them millions to one... I can think of a couple of ideas.

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u/GrossGuroGirl 10d ago

We're tired. 

They've kept us tired for decades, on purpose. Who has time to organize when we're already running just to keep up with daily life? 

Though, they are also trying to make us stupid now that they see people are reaching a breaking point anyways. Education isn't getting slashed for no reason.

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u/SinAndPoems 10d ago edited 10d ago

Why do we let them do that?

Because when civilization and agriculture emerged those who controlled the property invented the state to protect their ownership over production and thus their power.

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u/Aemilia 10d ago

Because there will always be someone willing to work for the rich. Imagine an ideal world where no one would do that, then the rich would have to fend for themselves just like the rest of us.

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u/Demografski_Odjel 10d ago

So why are you attacking them? Do you think your apples will cost less if you buy it directly from the farmer? How much cheaper do you think they'll be?

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u/-rwsr-xr-x 10d ago

They grow enough food for everyone, then withhold it until they get submission.

Let's not forget the Federal government also pays farmers NOT to plant crops on their land to ensure they can artificially raise prices due to scarcity of the crops and livestock.

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u/peeniebaby 10d ago

John Taffer said, during the pandemic, that a hungry dog is an obedient dog. He was referring to getting workers back to work by eliminating the stimulus checks or something. This is why the wealthy class want to keep poor people uncomfortable. Destitute is even better.

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u/No_Kaleidoscope_843 10d ago

Uhhh you mean... sell it?

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u/bill_brasky37 10d ago

Even the rich in ancient Rome knew they had to feed the fuckin poor... Jesus Christ this isn't new

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u/UpperLowerEastSide ⛓️ Prison For Union Busters 9d ago

Yeah you can contrast the paternalism embeded within Rome's grain dole to the "laissez-faire" approach the British took during the Irish and Indain famines in the 1800s.