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.
You see a lot of communist accounts that get very upset about paid labor. I need job done, I give you X dollars, you do the labor. Somehow the idea that the dollar is expressing the appreciation and value of the benefit the employer receives is lost.
The employee has been exploited somehow. The employer hasn’t received a benefit.
Here we see the same fundamental breakdown in understanding. A consumer purchases an item. They pay money for the item. According to many on the left like Amy, the consumer has not benefited.
They lack some key point about exchange. About this for that. They don’t get it, it’s something they view as unfair, as unbalanced. The worker should just get money, the consumer should just get the things. Why do they have to trade the employer/ merchant has plenty. A critical failure in being able to abstract the thoughts, needs, and inner life of someone who is not them. Another failure mode caused by a lack of empathy.
@ZachWLambert You are probably too uniformed to know that Elon offered the World Food Bank $6 Billion years ago. His only condition: that the accounting was transparent and public.
The WFB refused the money.
You are an uniformed, brain-washed, NPC.
@OG_DrC Doc, Mr iet, long time follower, first time in a long time responder, I’ve never seen you post about soccer, I am new to the game but that sure was an exciting game of futebol!!
Elon Musk just became the world's first trillionaire.
The typical American household would have to work more than 11 MILLION years to make Elon Musk's level of wealth.
We need a wealth tax.
@memeticsisyphus If races were reversed, and professional white people responded this way, it would be a pretty solid exhibit A for the claim America is a white supremacist society.
This case is too unabashed for the usual cover. I think even white liberals are taken aback by how out in the open the hatred is. Those that would usually be front and center to provide cover with impressive sounding rhetorical nonsense are quiet. They’re watching their pet alligator eat a baby and they don’t know what to do.
🚨 Dr. Stacey Patton, a professor at Howard University, wrote an article in which she blamed Austin Metcalf – and his family – for Karmelo Anthony's decision to murder him.
Titled "Dear Jeff Metcalf: Your Son is Dead Because You Failed to Teach Him That Black Boys Have Boundaries," the article argues that Jeff Metcalf failed to teach Austin that "black children have boundaries." In other words, Jeff should have taught Austin that black people will try to kill you if you ask them to stop violating social norms.
While Patton falls short of outright defending Karmelo's decision, the entire purpose of the piece is to rationalize his behavior. Kind of like "Sure Karmelo shouldn't have stabbed him, but it was Austin's fault at the end of the day."
She writes, "We have to talk about Austin's decision to approach and confront." As if Austin didn't have the right to tell someone from another school to leave his school's tent. As if somehow that minor confrontation justifies stabbing him in the heart. It is complete insanity. Patton ties Austin's behavior to "a long cultural tradition of policing black bodies and space."
Right.
Patton's Substack has nearly 50k followers. He has 300k followers on Facebook. She is an accomplished professor and journalist. The article received thousands of likes. We've all seen the low-class black people causing a scene outside of the courthouse. But it appears that even many educated blacks believe that people of their race have the right to murder anyone who asks them to stop playing music in public, respect physical boundaries, and so on.
"Let us do what we want or we'll kill you" appears to be the message being broadcast by a sizable share of the black community. You don't have to be a far-right radical to recognize the many unsettling implications this holds for the future of American race relations.
St. Louis, Chicago, Atlanta, OKC just four random cities pulled from their local crime sections. A gang member shooting a random 13 year old girl to gain favor with his gang, show how hard he is. A family ripped apart by stray drive by bullets into their home. Fatal stabbings and muggings on public transit. A nothing argument in a park resulted in a double shooting. It’s the same every city you look. One could dedicate their entire lives to just looking these cases up.