Daniel, querido.
La diferencia entre un demócrata y un caudillo es muy sencilla. El demócrata entiende que la patria es más grande que él y caudillo cree que él es la patria.
Por eso algunos como tú, se indignan porque un juez le ordenó a Abelardo retirar propaganda que utiliza símbolos nacionales y consignas asociadas a la Nación.
Porque durante meses intentaron vender la idea de que defender a Abelardo era defender a Colombia. Y NO.
Nuestro país existía antes de Abelardo y seguirá existiendo después de Abelardo, nuestra bandera no necesita candidatos que hablen en su nombre, necesita ciudadanos que respeten que la patria nos pertenece a todos.
“Billionaires already pay more taxes than you ever will” is one of the most financially illiterate arguments on this app because it confuses nominal dollars with effective burden.
A billionaire paying $500M in taxes sounds enormous until you remember they gained $20B in asset value while doing it. The relevant metric is percentage, not raw dollars. A teacher paying 22% of a $60k salary is carrying a heavier proportional burden than someone paying 8% while their wealth compounds tax-deferred through stock appreciation.
And this “their money was already taxed” line is mostly fiction at billionaire scale.
Middle-class wealth is usually income that got taxed, then saved. Billionaire wealth is overwhelmingly unrealized appreciation. Tesla stock going vertical did not mean Elon “earned” $100B in taxable salary. The shares appreciated. Under current law, that appreciation can sit untaxed for decades, get borrowed against for liquidity, then receive stepped-up basis treatment at death that can erase the embedded gains entirely.
That is not “double taxation.” In many cases it is functionally zero taxation on the primary mechanism of wealth accumulation.
People also weirdly talk about billionaires like they emerged from the forest carrying capitalism on their backs with no public inputs involved.
Their companies rely on:
public roads
public courts
public contract enforcement
public utilities
public universities
public research grants
public internet infrastructure
public IP law
public military-protected trade routes
public education systems producing labor
The modern corporation is not built in isolation. It operates inside an enormous state-supported framework.
And no, asking whether someone should contribute proportionally to maintaining the system that enabled $100B fortunes is not “greed.” That framing is emotional theater designed to avoid discussing the actual structure of tax law.
The real debate is simple:
Should labor income be taxed continuously while massive asset appreciation can compound largely untouched for generations?
That’s the argument. Everything else is distraction.
Actually, different salaries should only affect how luxurious your life is, not your food quality or ability to afford rent. If you work 40 hours at any job, your income should be enough to live in the town you work in. Thinking otherwise is an abysmal indicator of your humanity.
Very unpopular opinion, but Koln drinking culture of getting served non stop little baby beers is a million times better than Bavarian steins that taste like piss by the time you’re on your last few gulps.
You realize that at some point in life, your parents slowly become like your children. They ask simple questions, repeat stories and depend on your patience the same way you once depended on theirs
Eat at a local restaurant tonight. Get the cream sauce. Have a cold pint at 4 o’clock in a mostly empty bar. Go somewhere you’ve never been. Listen to someone you think may have nothing in common with you. Order the steak rare. Eat an oyster. Have a negroni. Have two. Be open to a world where you may not understand or agree with the person next to you, but have a drink with them anyways. Eat slowly. Tip your server. Check in on your friends. Check in on yourself. Enjoy the ride.
Anthony Bourdain
Rich people don't create jobs. They weaponized the“enclosure” of resources that should have been available to everyone. They leave the rest of the population with nothing, so they can force them to work for less than they deserve to survive.
Mindblowing.
How capitalism destroys the world and limits innovation, rather than the reverse.
Capitalism can never be relied on for basic needs such as food security or even healthcare, it only serves to accumulate and maximize profit.
What an accurate take from him.
Objectively speaking, these people are the real class enemies: they (inevitably) will oppose a 5 hour working day, in order to preserve their chinovnik rank and hollow performance.