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Re:California plan for wealth tax on anyone who spends 60 da... by throwawaysea on Saturday December 19, 2020 @01:27PM (#25479741)
Hatred towards the rich when our quality of life has never been higher IS jealousy and petty envy. The fact that slogans like “eat the rich” have been normalized by Millennials and Gen-Z on Tik Tok is clear evidence of it. Imagine the irony of an entire society having leisure time to burn on Tik Tok (or other social media) via a handheld space age device that we couldn’t even imagine 15 years ago, and yet whining about how life is tough and the system is broken. The greed isn’t in those creating value and accumulating wealth - it’s with everyone else, who are enjoying an amazing life in an amazing time and yet are greedy enough to complain about not having more for free.
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Re:California plan for wealth tax on anyone who spends 60 da... by ketzo on Saturday December 19, 2020 @02:33PM (#25480401)
More could be had. That's impossible for anyone to argue against, I think -- there is a lot of wealth in the pie that most people don't have access to.

This idea that poor people need to shut up and stop complaining because "you have TikTok!" when there are tens of millions of people who don't know where their next meal will come from is, frankly, sickening to me.

I don't understand your perspective at all, and I don't know how you can look at the lives of the millions of people in the in the richest country in the world who can't afford medicine, food, safe housing, good education and say that "they should stop being so jealous."

Please, please change my mind. Tell me how your point makes any kind of moral sense.

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