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When I say "eat the rich," I don't mean the surgeon with 700K in his bank account who
had sleepless nights and worked hard for it.
I mean the billionaires who earn 10K a minute even while they're asleep.

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https://t.co/RErQRWW839

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Look at the name on the tallest building in any city.
It's an insurance company or a bank.
They didn't build it by paying your claims.
They built it by denying them.

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UnitedHealth made over $6 billion in profit in just 3 months. Reportedly denying about 1 in 3 claims.
You paid your premium. They denied your claim.
They kept your money. Then they called it a "record quarter." And it's all legal.

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Look at the name on the tallest building in any city.
It's an insurance company or a bank.
They didn't build it by paying your claims.
They built it by denying them.

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“Money doesn’t buy happiness” was invented by a rich man who didn’t want his gardener asking for a raise. Money buys insulin.
Money pays the dentist.
Money keeps the lights on.
Money stops the landlord from knocking. Call it oxygen.
Not happiness.

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@FabrizioRomano Como shutting down the January noise on Jacobo is peak. Kid’s been one of their best this season let him cook under Fàbregas and let Madrid activate that cheap buy-back next summer. No need to rush it. 🔥

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Banks collapsed → taxpayers paid.
Automakers failed → taxpayers paid.
Airlines grounded → taxpayers paid.
PPP loans? Forgiven. When the rich fail, the government writes a check.
When you fail, they tell you to pull yourself up. Socialism for the rich.
Personal responsibility for everyone else.

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No one tells you this about being the successful kid in a poor family:
You don’t get rich. You become an ambulance for twenty relatives.

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Exposing how the system works,
I post things worth knowing. Follow for your daily dose of useful knowledge.

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Scammers went from “You won the lottery!” to “$18/hr remote job, no experience needed.” That’s how cooked the economy is.

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The last federal increase to $7.25 was signed by Republican President George W. Bush in 2007 after Democrats took control of Congress. Presidents don’t set the minimum wage alone Congress has to pass a law. Democrats have introduced multiple bills since including versions of the Raise the Wage Act that failed mainly due to Senate filibuster rules and Republican opposition.
Anyways I am not here to defend anyone
No matter who made the mistake and who stopped it the price is paid by common working class.

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In 2009, the federal minimum wage was $7.25 an hour. Guess what it still is the same in 2026. In that same time:
Jeff Bezos went from ~$7 billion to nearly $400 billion.
Mark Zuckerberg went from under $1 billion to over $220 billion.
Elon Musk went from not even a billionaire to almost $1 trillion.
Seventeen years. Same minimum wage. Completely different world for a handful of people.

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@janine_szokoly Yeah a lot of people end up in the exact same spot. Once the deductible is hit the denials start and it stops feeling worth it.

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If hard physical labor actually made human beings wealthy, every bricklayer light-shift nurse, and field hand in the country would sleep in a marble palace, And every corporate boardroom on wall street would be completely empty by noon.

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Want to teach your kids capitalism?

Let them do all the trick or treating.
Take most of their candy.
Give them one Kit Kat as a "bonus."
Tell them they should be grateful for the opportunity.

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We treat 70- and 80-year-olds as too physically and mentally declined to run a company, manage a team, or even keep a normal job. Then we hand them the nuclear codes, the budget, and the future of the country.

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Record profits + big tax breaks while offering buyouts to 60k people looks rough, even if a lot of those breaks are from AI/data-center depreciation. The “lower rate than a nurse” part is what sticks with people. Follow if you want more straightforward breakdowns on this stuff without the pure outrage.

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Microsoft made $134 billion in profits, received $19 billion in tax breaks, paid a lower federal tax rate than a nurse, and got rid of 60,000 workers.

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@Cryptogally Yes, both sides take the money. That’s the point. One side calls taxing those donors radical, while treating their political spending as sacred free speech. The double standard doesn’t disappear just because both parties cash the checks.

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‘Tax the rich’ is apparently radical left, but ‘let the rich buy politicians’ is just democracy.

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@sanaeim1 True for almost everyone the goalpost moves. But for most people it eventually stops around security + freedom. Past a certain point it stops being about comfort and becomes status, control, or just not knowing how to stop. That’s the part worth questioning.

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we are obsessed with the idea that poor people might take more than they need, but we almost never question why billionaires are never satisfied with what they already have.

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Everyone’s calling it a cost of living crisis.
Companies are raising prices and reporting record profits.
Call it what it is: a cost of greed crisis.