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Re:Report finds wealth of top 1% up $21T, bottom 50% down $9... by peisistratos on Saturday June 15, 2019 @12:01AM (#20188325)
Most work for wages. Workers work a few hours a day creating wealth and keeping the wealth they create. The last few hours a day, they keep absolutely none of the wealth they keep - it is expropriated by heirs. It is a social relationship - we work, they live off our labor. They are parasites, and they have little helpers who they give crumbs to and argue their case, including those who tell guileless fools that a magic man who lives in the clouds named Jesus will make sure they never die.
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Re:Report finds wealth of top 1% up $21T, bottom 50% down $9... by dvdhnt on Saturday June 15, 2019 @12:58AM (#20188453)
Man, you had me until you went religious. I think -

1) those people have appropriated Christianity since at least King James, as Jesus and his ministry promoted socialism aka selling all of your belonging to fund social programs; 2) we need to stop distracting from the primary topic of wealth inequality / late stage capitalism. Slipping in jabs against capitalism just gives "those" people a leg to stand on and the ability to redirect the conversation.

If anything, we should force them to confront the hypocrisy of their political/economic policies when compared to their religion.

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