Ok so how does a cancer kill its host?

It grows until it consumes so many nutrients that the other living cells don’t get enough. The host literally starves even if he eats plentifully.

The same applies for the US: The billionaires are not only hoarding wealth, but by doing so they’re crippling the economy for workers and everybody besides themselves.

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    Been saying it for years. Sadly there are too many at the bottom mesmerized by the elite propaganda telling them “you can also be like me, if you work hard”, as if they earned billions that way without any dirty tactics along the way, and despite even with success still needing such tactics to take more and more.

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    At this point radical measures are necessary to right the wrongs committed by the rich. Taxes are a good start but not enough.

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    Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

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      Not a fan fat shaming that gets bundled in with that but basically. It’s the vice of greed, plain and simple.

      Like imagine rolling up to a potluck and just buying the table, leaving naught but a bag of chips for the rest of the party. Even if you can afford it, it’s still a crime against your fellows.

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    We should start call them hoarders instead. They are just as obsessed and wierd about it.

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      Right? Billionaires should be seen in the same light as someone with a house full of cats and feces. Hoarding for the sake of hoarding is mental illness. Instead: we put them on Forbes and look to them as royals. Kill the rich.

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    Each billionaire is an individual problem AND allowing billionaires to grab and monopolize so many resources and even looking up to them is a systemic problem.

    Without the systemic problem which is Capitalism and the shallow, greedy present day society, billionaires would be treated the same as other hoarders - seen mentally derranged and stopped from going too far for their own good and the good of others.

    There will always be nutters, but if the social system we have wasn’t broken, this very specific kind of nutter would never be allowed to cause the damage they do with their mental disease.

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    What are you talking about? Billionaires are what’s saving this country! Everyone just needs to stop eating and be homeless. But also fuxk homeless people and you turn to drugs for comfort? Jail obviously. They’re totally fixing everything! /S

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    I am incensed by the use of the word “literally” here almost as much as I am incensed by the hyper rich denying the vast fraction of the human race basics rights and freedoms. Almost.

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    You’re right about the similarities, but having similarities is not what “literally” means. That word is so fucking overused.

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    9 days ago

    Corporations with more than 1 billion are more of a cancer than individual billionaires