• skisnow@lemmy.ca
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    2 hours ago

    I wouldn’t mind them having money so much if it wasn’t for them spending it on destroying democracy

  • thinkingofyouihaveananxietydisorder@quokk.au
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    4 hours ago

    too late for wealth tax.

    what does the wealthy having wealth do for me? its not as if my home or possessions are sacred. I gain nothing from the taboos that protect them.

    the time for a wealth tax was fifty years ago. most of us hadn’t been born yet. Now is the time for avenging the victims of property, for taking the world back, for casting off this great weight and unleashing human flourishing, production, art.

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      49 minutes ago

      I finally obtained a numerical value. 50$ mil and up is considered the ultra rich and the benchmark for a wealth tax.

      100mil and up would be more worth it be cause you were to do a fixed rate of 7% more than the general population redistribution would seem more worth it. Taxing the super duper rich 3% could’ve worked in 2009.

      I still think to myself : There’s people out there with all the money in the world… People who have the ability to better society and instead they just do shit like donate a wing for tax write offs and if there’s no tax write-off or passive income for 20 years there’s no point to those people.

      You know what, I looked at my fiancé sometime at the beginning of last month and I said to her: " If I had that kind of money if I had trillions of dollars to just piss away, I would buy up so many old hospitals and make them functional. I’d find all the people I’ve wronged and I’d build trusts for their kids to go to college and give them 5 million each to do whatever the fuck they want with, buy a house, invest whatever they want.

      I would donate a fuck load to every special needs school, I would overhaul my home city, I would overhaul the one I live in, I would put so much back into the lives of those that matter to me and others.

      And it’s crazy that there’s people out there with nearly all the money in the world and they won’t help anyone but themselves."

      She looked at me with her eyes wide with a smile, that like that of you son of a removed you would too kind of smile.

      In that moment after I said all of that it made me realize: THAT’S PART OF IT!!! FUCK!!! There’s people with nearly all the money in the world and will never have to worry about anything for generations to come unless they choose to indulge in a different lifestyle than what they grew up with and they choose to just never put any of it back into society.

      Well fuck that! , maybe they should be forced to give back some of their wealth back into society to better the planet instead of just keeping it all for themselves.

      I ultimately understood wealth redistribution after saying there’s people with nearly all the money in the world and they choose to not help a soul.

      • thinkingofyouihaveananxietydisorder@quokk.au
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        44 minutes ago

        why do we let them keep defiling earth with their caustic presence? they’re vile. they will never do anything for another person. why allow them in society? why allow them any power? any protection for their possessions? that’s real resources that could go to building schools and hospitals.

        • Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world
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          The real resource they have is their money. Other than that it’s all stuff they buy with their money to be able to have assets to hold their wealth and I don’t mean just mansions I mean paintings, jelwery, antique and vintage furniture of value. Clothing that needs to be stored a certain ways, wines and collectable foods, historical documents of value, historical artifacts in general…

          Things that we would never even think of is what they hold their wealth in which is why they use trusts and company holdings and offshore bank accounts so they’re not holding their full assets and net worth.

          Like that one painting that they all say is worth 20 mil, is that 20 mil that’s not in their bank account but is always obtainable through auction. It makes you less of a target if your wealth is spread and diversified.

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    6 hours ago

    I am stunned Prop 40 is polling so badly. Billionaires really bamboozled the half of Californians dumber than the average Californian.

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      We can eat the rich and be sustainable

      Do you know how much water it takes to get 1 kilo of rich meat? Not to mention the carbon footprint.
      It’s worse than beef.

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      7 hours ago

      Eating fruit and vegetable scraps such as peels and stalks could provide a health boost that most of us are missing, say UK researchers.

      They say scraps are an overlooked source of dietary fibre and are encouraging people to try “root-to-tip” eating, including watermelon rind, pineapple core and butternut squash seeds.

      https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw5ynver15jeo

      I was going to agree with the article, but nevermind. There has to be a better way to get your fiber.

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        I eat the entire cauliflower, pickle watermelon rinds, and zest all of my citrus. I also make stock with all of my soup-ingredient-scraps (not garlic, thatll fuck up your stock)

        Article kinda stretching, but moat people i know would throw that stuff out but im getting free food from my food

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        6 hours ago

        There has to be a better way to get your fiber.

        There definitely are. This is some bullshit “publish or die” noise. Please ignore and focus on the class war. 😅💟

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        4 hours ago

        It was just this year that I found out I was peeling carrots for no reason.

        I am all about the watermelon rind, that is tasty. Not the skin though.

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        5 hours ago

        I doing know why people don’t like pineapple core; it’s like a crunchier, milder pineapple. And pumpkin seeds are eaten quite commonly as a snack throughout the world.