Re:What do wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know not...
by cess11 on Sunday May 18, 2025 @01:14PM
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No, we should get rid of the rich. They all became that way through exploitation or crime so it is moral to redistribute their wealth, and obviously so if unions or other democratic organisations are strong enough to do it.
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Re:What do wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know not...
by criddell on Sunday May 18, 2025 @01:32PM
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What are the major crimes or exploitation that Warren Buffet is guilty of?
Re:What do wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know not...
by bombcar on Monday May 19, 2025 @01:49AM
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See’s Candy
Re:What do wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know not...
by cess11 on Monday May 19, 2025 @02:09AM
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Since you bring him up specifically I'm guessing you already know he's a capitalist but is perfectly fine with hereditary wealth extracted from other people's labour, so maybe look into his predatory practices towards the poor, e.g. in lending, or other corporations.
Perhaps you also recognise this quote:
"There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning."
Re:What do wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know not...
by kortilla on Monday May 19, 2025 @03:14AM
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Look at the context of that quote and you’ll understand he is not arguing either in support of your stance against the rich nor is he supportive of how the rich as a class are minimizing taxes through equity loans/etc.
Re:What do wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know not...
by cess11 on Monday May 19, 2025 @05:43AM
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If you look at the context here you'll notice that this is about whether Buffett is exploitative, and as the quote shows, he said that he is.
Re:What do wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know not...
by Mashimo on Monday May 19, 2025 @07:59AM
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> we should get rid of the rich.
In what way for example?
Re:What do wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know not...
by cess11 on Monday May 19, 2025 @09:27AM
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Why isn't material and financial redistribution good enough of an example?
Re:What do wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know not...
by Mashimo on Monday May 19, 2025 @10:27AM
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Maybe, but you declined taxation that could be used for financial redistribution and just said "we should get rid of them".
Re:What do wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know not...
by cess11 on Monday May 19, 2025 @02:02PM
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No, I did not. Why are you so protective of the people destroying our present and future?