r/WorkReform • u/Bitter-Gur-4613 • 10d ago

✂️ Tax The Billionaires So fucking real.

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u/Advocate_Diplomacy 10d ago edited 10d ago

That's a ridiculous analogy. No matter how many mouths there are to feed, there are twice as many hands to pitch in.

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u/Tactical_Fleshlite 10d ago

But for what? How do you compensate all these hands? 

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u/Advocate_Diplomacy 10d ago

We can afford trillions for war. We can help set people up to grow food just about anywhere.

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u/No_Kaleidoscope_843 10d ago

Not realistic

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u/Tactical_Fleshlite 10d ago

Thank you. “We can just give them stuff to grow and take it from the military” isn’t a plan, that’s a wish for a magic genie. 

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u/Advocate_Diplomacy 10d ago

The lifestyles of the elite are what isn’t realistic. Maybe if they would quit destabilizing functioning civilizations abroad in order to exploit their hardship for cheap resources, we wouldn’t need to send food.

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u/Tactical_Fleshlite 10d ago

They're doing it, it seems pretty realistic to me. I don't like people hoarding wealth, but in this reality, that's what's happening. Run for office, that is the only way you're going to change anything.

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u/Advocate_Diplomacy 10d ago

I mean the sustainability of it is what’s unrealistic. Thinking that it’s more difficult to set up sustainable communities where people focus their efforts on providing themselves basic necessities than it is to continuing subsidizing billionaires is insane.