The difficulty is most people with gifts are also chronically undeveloped and under nurtured in other areas, so people take pride in watching them suffer in the ways that they do. It’s a form of social engineering for survival.
@blakerileyjamie@youtubeherolvl4@VogueChilee This is exactly what I’m talking about. It’s assumed that having pretty privilege means everyone’s nice to you. So the jealous assholes try to “humble” you and actively shut you out of the in group.
MEN DO NOT WORK FOR MONEY
MEN WORK FOR THAT WHICH THE MONEY WILL BUY
WHEN THE MONEY NO LONGER BUYS LAND, HOMES, NON PSYCHO WOMEN, AND CANT PAY FOR CHILDREN
***MEN STOP WORKING***
—Pretty fucking simple
If one more person starts talking about summer being over I’m going to get violent. Summer doesn’t end until September 21st. You can all still go to the pool and lay out in the sun in September. The world is burning up. Leave your pumpkin propaganda for October
had a lovely conversation with my coworker about how she basically only dated women before getting with her husband and he basically only dated men before getting with her and she has like 5 different straps to peg him with
A top 5 reason to implement a wealth tax is related to this point below about China eating our lunch. If our super rich class was leading the world when it came to frontier industries, that would be a strong case to let them keep cooking.
Instead, their focus the past 15-20 years has been on building monopolies and moats, propping it up with ever-more-absurd financial engineering, media consolidation with the aim of stoking culture war and blunting criticism of Israel, which for some odd reason is supposed to be a national priority for us — all while falling behind China on robotics, batteries, EVs, and so on. We’re barely winning on AI if at all. They cheered as Trump effectively repealed the IRA, the biggest investment in new energy production in decades, and are now crying that there isn’t enough energy production for their AI.
If our billionaires were winners, we might consider defending them.
But our billionaires are losers, in several senses of the word, and they embarrass us on the international stage. A wealth tax will take them down a few pegs and hopefully let some winners rise up. We no longer have a meritocracy so it’s time to strip the participation medals from these monopolists.
So no, a wealth tax is not punishing you for your success. It’s punishing you for failure. Don’t like it? Stop losing.
@pli_cachete As a 29 year old man who has squandered my 20s away, I can see the light, I can see the way my life is about to transform for the better. Never give up