I'll make a simple analogy that even right-wingers can understand.
You make a pie.
You want to give a slice of the pie to a Mexican of color who cleans your toilet, and you want to eat a slice of the pie yourself.
Elon Musk comes along and takes all the pie and leaves you only with crumbs.
HOW. IS. THIS. FAIR?
Nobody is hoarding anything. Elon doesn't have a trillion dollars. The value is in shares of Space X. Basically he owns a percentage of the company. It's not money.
No, the left are not Jealous of Elon Musk,
We don’t want to be trillionaires.
We want a world where children aren’t starving to death whilst trillionaires hoard money.
do you know how much money Mamdani just saved on his next mayoral campaign by being able to tell New York City he delivered a Knicks championship, free childcare up to age five, filled potholes in mere weeks, and World Cup tickets before he spent six full months in office
That's not true. The government stepped in and forced child care workers to be licensed, and their facilities to be inspected. You couldn't just have a mom looking after a couple of neighbor kids. You had to create a business which was expensive.
Half of all families live in child care deserts.
How did we get here?
It’s Econ 101: Prices are high because lots of families need care, but there’s nowhere near enough child care providers. And there aren’t enough providers, because we’re not paying them enough.
Elon Musk’s companies pay a median salary of $125,000.
Elon Musk doesn’t take a salary.
Elon Musk’s companies don’t pay dividends.
So tell me how he got wealthy by exploiting his employees.
Elon Musk says that white people are discriminated against despite being a white immigrant from Africa who was able to immigrate to the USA to make a trillion dollars.
White privileged right there.
Israel started massive bombing campaign against Lebanon as soon as a potential peace deal was announced. They’re never going to let us live in peace. They are never going to be satisfied.
They’re insatiable fanatics, who want endless war because they think God promised that land to them 3,000 years ago. They’re the religious and nationalist fundamentalists we should have been warned about.
That’s so fucking obvious. Just look at a map!! Are the Palestinians occupying the Israelis, or the other way around? Are the Lebanese invading Israel, or the other way around? You would have to be both blind and deeply stupid to not see the reality at this point.
I’m furious at our national media. They all lied in unison for decades to trick us into supporting and funding the terrorists.
I don’t know that I can ever forgive all the reporters in the national press, who lied to help the fascists, and called their victims “terrorists.” These sick people helped the actual terrorists brutalize the Palestinians for six decades, while actively hiding the truth from us.
My mom has had a pretty bad cough the last few days but does she bother to test, no. She's a HCW with 40 years of experience and multiple degrees. I have lost the battle with my parents many years ago. I don't have to mention I couldn't convince them to mask in years right?
A friend mentioned that her brother is having symptoms including dizziness + feeling like he’s going to faint upon standing up or if he’s been standing for a long time. The doctor told him that it is “probably just anxiety”
………….
I told her those are symptoms of POTS
The fastest way to get a raise in America isn’t a performance review.
It’s quitting and getting hired somewhere else.
Companies will pay a stranger 20% more than they’ll pay the person who’s been doing the job well for years.
Loyalty has a price.
It’s negative.
Have your students bring them from home. I had a pencil box where I kept my pencils that I brought to school pens too. Don't baby them by giving them pencils. Make them bring them from home.
The top 50% of earners pay about 98% of all federal income taxes.
The bottom 50% pay almost none.
Yet somehow the loudest complaints always come from the people who barely contribute.
The con man who stole your data and sold our government for scrap is now a trillionaire.
Meanwhile hardworking Americans are counting every last nickel and dime.
The inequality is outrageous.
We've got it now. About 50% of your money is taken away from you in the form of taxes, and that's why you can't live on what you make. Meanwhile people who don't work get to stay home, live for free and have babies you can't afford to have.
Twitter isn’t real life part 1 trillion:
80+% of Americans want to raise taxes on the rich.
80% of blue check marks on here think asking the rich to pay even one dollar more in taxes is the greatest crime in history.
Band Aid and Live Aid did not end hunger and poverty. And the US spends $1.1 trillion on social services and it has not ended hunger and poverty. You're just repeating ridiculous liberal talking points.
I doubt anyone lost their job because of racism. And I doubt someone is homeless because they lost their job. You get six months of unemployment and in most states you can apply for benefits. More likely is he's homeless because he spent all his money on drugs.
So there's a homeless man on the street. He lost his job because of racism, and his wife divorced him because he lost his job.
Now the only way he can cope with the pain and hunger is by injecting a little ketamine.
Elon walks by. Elon has $1 trillion. In his bank account.
The homeless man says to Elon "please sir give me $10 so I can buy clean needles for my ketamine".
Elon just laughs and carries on walking. All he has to do is go to a cash machine and withdraw $10 from the $1 trillion, but he won't.
That is the kind of man we are dealing with right now.