💬 Claim:
“Billionaires deserve their wealth because they’re job creators and they pay taxes that help society.”
🔥 Counterpoint:
Billionaires don’t create jobs — consumers and workers do.
And they pay far less in taxes (proportionally) than you probably do.
🧠 Break It Down
1. Jobs Exist Because of Demand — Not Billionaires
Jobs are created when people buy stuff, not when billionaires feel generous.
If Jeff Bezos disappeared tomorrow, people would still need to ship packages. Someone else would fill that economic niche.
Workers build the value — billionaires extract it.
📉 In fact, when billionaires cut costs, automate, or offshore jobs to increase profit, they destroy jobs.
Workers create wealth. Billionaires accumulate it.
2. Billionaires Don’t “Give” Wealth — They Capture It
Most billionaires didn’t create wealth from nothing. They used:
Public infrastructure (roads, schools, internet)
Public research (e.g., GPS, touchscreen tech, vaccines)
Legal protections, tax breaks, labor laws skewed in their favor
They leverage our systems — and keep a disproportionate share of the returns.
If they truly “created” jobs on their own, they could do it in a desert with no internet, no educated workers, and no legal protections.
No billionaire is self-made. They're system-made.
3. They Often Pay LESS Taxes Than You
Billionaires’ wealth is mostly in stocks and assets, not income.
They don’t sell their assets — so they avoid income tax.
They borrow against their wealth (tax-free), live large, and never “realize” the gains.
ProPublica revealed some top billionaires paid 0% in federal income tax in some years.
Meanwhile:
The average worker pays payroll tax, sales tax, income tax, property tax.
Billionaires often pay an effective tax rate lower than a nurse or teacher.
So that “they pay the most taxes” argument? Totally misleading.
4. Wealth Hoarding Is Economically Harmful
When one person hoards billions, that money isn’t circulating in the economy.
It's being invested in luxury real estate, yachts, stock buybacks, or even tax havens — not wages, healthcare, or infrastructure.
💡 Redistribution (via taxation or UBI) actually stimulates the economy far more than leaving it in a billionaire’s bank account.
A dollar in a poor person’s pocket gets spent.
A dollar in a billionaire’s pocket gets invested in a Cayman Islands hedge fund.
5. “Job Creator” Worship Is a Distraction
It’s a clever narrative — but it’s designed to:
Protect the ultra-wealthy from criticism
Shift blame onto the poor or “lazy”
Undermine support for progressive policies
🧱 It creates the illusion that billionaires are the pillars of society
— when in reality, society enables billionaires to exist in the first place.
@BillAckman Bro go the f away.. you are literally an example of what we are voting against. Billionaires with too much say and power.. go exploit people like you usually do and let the regular people vote without buying the election 🤡🤡
@RunNodes @CouncillorJamal @BillAckman Lol there are examples of working socialism all over the world. America has alot of socialist aspects. Lol if capitalism is so successful tell me where America ranks in health, education, freedom of economy, standard of living.. etc .
@marijuanamar3 This is my general understanding Concentrates is the overarching category (rectangle) which can split into solventless and solvent concentrates... Hash falls under solventless category, while rosin is a separate solventless category.
Rosin 🙅🏽♂️ Hash
What happens when you ask for hash (expecting rosin) but actually get hash?
What happens when you ask for hash (expecting hash) and get rosin?
If your first introduction to hash is through dabbing, maybe sit this one out.
Lol it's a completely extra process, how is it the same thing? Even etymologically it gives itself away. "Hash rosin" so hash made from hash? In English morphology especially in the cannabis space we have put the product at the end and the characteristic in front. Ex. Cold Cure rosin, fresh pressed rosin, hash rosin (the first part being descriptive). Vs full melt hash, dry sift hash, bubble hash... You see what I mean? The term hash is not the overarching category, maybe solventless concentrates is.
@Marijuantauk@sturtdoinks@alienlabsTED Lol why call it hash rosin then? If rosin is hash.. why include the word hash? Why is there hash rosin and flower rosin ? .. if your saying oh "it's rosin made from hash" how can it be made from hash and be hash at the same time? Lol