#the 1%

[queeringhope]

Rogues gallery of the day 😳

[anarchistabsol]

Saw some folks on reddit are boycotting Zuckerberg. You should too.

[tilbageidanmark]

Seen in Boston: Radical times calls for radical solutions

[leftisttiktok]

Class consciousness

[thatvvitch]

I love being a women. I’m simultaneously investing my time in my skin care routine and eating the rich

We contain multitudes bitch

[random4fun]

I wanna fight a billionaire. I wanna fight them. I am tired of them. I am sick of the 1%. I'm gonna fight them. It's on sight. Hands on sight. I am so fucking enraged by the 1%. Especially Musk and Zuckerberg. On sight.

[insaneandinpain35]

Because his family got ties to the republican party, saving face while funding attorneys privately most probably.

Thoughts, anyone?

[scarlettmarlens-blog]

All I hear about it’s corporations “losing billions” and “gaining billions” but where is all this fucking money. Thousands of people are losing their jobs for ai, and everyone I know seems to want to kill themselves than work. New big store manager now and my coworker told me the last store manager apparently had a budget for employees bonus gift cards and no one saw a cent of that. We get a block of chocolate at Christmas as thanks as the higher ups get thousands in bonuses bc of profits and the profit come from us working our asses off so they can cut hours and add work. People spend more an purses than I make in a year and we’re the people that NEED the actual money to live. I can barely afford to feed myself while ceos make more money than they can dream of spending. They fucking invent new ways to blow the cash they have for funnies while still having enough to give their great grandchildren. IM SICK OF THE WORLD GETTING WORSE EVERYDAY. Everywhere I turn I see new articles about laws getting repealed, actively making shit worse! Years of hard fought progress thrown in the trash by the most greedy bigots, voted in by the most anti intellectual manipulated bigots. I hate this. I try to keep my fucking head down and do the work to survive but I’m furious!! And helpless to make any change. There are millions of people that share my view but even they can barely make a dent in it all. Why why why why why can’t things just be fair. And even if there is rich people why does it have to come at the cost of common people having to decide if they’ll eat or go to the doctors.

[theworldthrukaleidoscope-eyes]

To fast food workers: "It's only meant for young people in college! Not to support a family!"

To retail workers: "The job isn't that hard. Why do they need to be paid so much?"

To CEOs: "They had to work hard to get where they are!" - Let's talk about this. A CEO of a small business (I'm using an example of someone I know personally, just so you know I'm not inflating or spewing secondhand facts) makes 350k/year. Minimum wage makes 15k/year. Do you honestly think any people/persons are capable of working over 20x harder than anyone else?? Retail workers have customers screaming at them for 8+ hours a day; fast food workers must prepare your food in a boiling hot kitchen (with customers screaming at them!) for 8+ hours a day. I could go on about waitresses, firemen, childcare, teachers! (oh but those jobs should be fulfilling enough without the paycheck...right?? Tell that to the CEO) My CEO friend doesn't work every day. She works MAYBE 15 hours a week, and complains about the days she has to drive to work to handle things in person. She absolutely does not work harder than minimum wage workers. Don't get me wrong--she used to. Before she made 350k a year. Before she made even 200k a year. Did she work hard to 'earn' a position where she makes so much and doesn't work? No. That's what we call 'retiring'. What she is doing is earning money she don't need off the labor of others. Because that's the kicker--she doesn't need this much money. She owns three houses. She travels at least 3 times a year overseas or on yachts/cruises. She buys expensive furniture (I'm talking 2 thousand dollar lamps, 400 dollar chairs) on a WHIM. She eats out for nearly every meal. She does not need this much money. People in poverty don't want to have a free ride. They don't want rich people to pay their way. They want this kind of financial imbalance to stop. Because when your friend who just spent more than you make in a year on her monthly travel expenses, and then complains that her taxes are just too high, and she has to pay way too much for health insurance, to someone who literally cannot afford health insurance (and some days, actual food)...it starts to get ridiculous.

This is a real person I know in real life. Not a billionaire. Not a famous actor, artist, or anyone you would have heard of. This is income inequality right on your doorstep.

[tilbageidanmark]

When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich

[lost-carcosa]

[hennethgalad]

"Democracy is the problem capital keeps trying to solve. Why? Because it ensures that workers have rights and fair wages; that the living world has some (though never enough) protections; that we cannot be ripped off, poisoned and robbed without restraint."

vote.

[stevenbarnum]

[soggy-billionaire]

God I hate when people try to argue on behalf of billionaires by saying shit like “well their wealth is all tied up in assets like stocks & property”. IT DOESN’T FUCKING MATTER! These goddamn monsters are allowed to use these assets as collateral to take out massive, practically interest free loans whenever they want!!

They have unlimited access to more money than anyone could ever imagine, and yet they’ve still managed to convince a large swath of the population that they’re somehow ‘cash poor’. There isn’t a level of hell hot enough or deep enough for these modern day dragons, sitting on their hoards & watching our collective suffering with a psychopathic indifference while having easy access to enough capital to eradicate homelessness & hunger!