Post B05hCV8RoXS8LO0dQu by Jestbill@mastodon.world
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(DIR) Post #B05PUyAmnDzERMlAHo by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-09T23:13:42Z
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Listen. I know the wealth tax sounds bad especially for someone like you, but if working class people are doing better you must understand Economics 101. The wealth will ...trickle back up as the whole economy does better and soon you'll be doing better than ever and won't even remember that this tax happened.
(DIR) Post #B05PUzc7R5RcuQYVWq by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-09T23:17:48Z
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There I've explained it. Now everyone can stop crying and whimpering. It's getting very annoying.
(DIR) Post #B05PV0c9iR4I0pa3E0 by kevinriggle@ioc.exchange
2025-11-10T00:27:14Z
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@futurebird Really the mistake had always been to consider the wealthy as the mountaintops, when in fact they’re the oceans and money is water
(DIR) Post #B05PV1UOSmSAj2xMlU by kevinriggle@ioc.exchange
2025-11-10T00:29:11Z
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@futurebird (Rich people always struggle to realize that, and we cannot emphasize this enough, _poor people spend money_. If I could put rich people into reeducation camps and get one thing through their heads it would be this.)
(DIR) Post #B05PV27O7ne4fzCVXs by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-10T00:30:55Z
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@kevinriggle This can be done by having them live on a "poor" budget for a time in a country where they know no one who might help them.
(DIR) Post #B05R6mxf1fsoctDZZo by RaymondPierreL3@aus.social
2025-11-10T01:10:14Z
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@futurebird The healthiest economies are those where the sovereign weatlh is more equitably and equaly spread throughout society and where that wealth circulates through all economic sectors. Hoarding — as #TheRich do — is a healthy economy’s antithesis.
(DIR) Post #B05RB1s5X4hC1ldKu8 by sinvega@mas.to
2025-11-09T23:27:14Z
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@futurebird (guy whose wealth is predicated on taking money from poor people voice) "I think it would be good if poor people had less money to start with"
(DIR) Post #B05RB7e83t5vwD9Gym by sinvega@mas.to
2025-11-09T23:27:41Z
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@futurebird (obviously that's most wealth but)
(DIR) Post #B05RCb83vm6pfOqxlo by nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social
2025-11-10T01:11:18Z
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@futurebird It's really crazy when you realize that the ultra-wealthy — the ones actually affected most by a wealth tax — are the ones who also most can afford it and are least affected by actually being taxed. It just means one less superyacht per year really. (Which still isn't zero...)It's just a special level of greed in which they'd rather die than even let one cent go to anyone else if they can help it, despite the fact they are the ones who most can spare it.
(DIR) Post #B05RJvaoFIrZA1nKbo by cshlan@dawdling.net
2025-11-09T23:24:31Z
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@futurebird Wealth bubbles up!
(DIR) Post #B05RaME0zl6MOPy13I by taatm@mathstodon.xyz
2025-11-09T23:37:12Z
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@futurebird @stevegis_ssg The really dumb thing is that it actually does work this way. Raising the wealth of lower to middle raises the value of the whole economy.Put simply, raising the US poor out of poverty raises the value of your dollar to buy more Yuan.The current billionaire strategy is to have more dollars where all of them are worth less. That’s not a wealth strategy. It’s stupidity.I promise everyone. Wealth and socialism are on the same page. Always has been and always will be.
(DIR) Post #B05TfyJB1u55rWBbm4 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-09T23:45:30Z
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@taatm @stevegis_ssg The US president has been mumbling things about cutting $2 "tariff dividends" since he's in so much trouble with the public over the economy. I find this fascinating. I also don't think it will happen as it will erase all of the higher unemployment they have been trying to manufacture.
(DIR) Post #B05X7b4xHzeVmwOlyS by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-10T02:17:37Z
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@taatm @stevegis_ssg If he's going to call it a "dividend" it should be every quarter, shouldn't it now?
(DIR) Post #B05YQsdwJGipieWMam by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-11-10T02:32:21Z
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If there is any more complaining just say "trickle up" or "economics 101" and nothing more. That's how this works I think.
(DIR) Post #B05hCV8RoXS8LO0dQu by Jestbill@mastodon.world
2025-11-10T04:10:32Z
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@futurebird @taatm @stevegis_ssg Trickle down corruption.
(DIR) Post #B05oxqFNq0Bn6vm3zU by ira@beige.party
2025-11-10T05:37:33Z
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@futurebird yes!
(DIR) Post #B068auJgXXSA9e7ytM by kludgekml@sunbeam.city
2025-11-10T09:17:30Z
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@futurebird @taatm @stevegis_ssg Last US president to try UBI was Richard Nixon, I think. So maybe there's one upside to having a criminal president.
(DIR) Post #B069RebTguf8llbMcC by plsik@mastodon.social
2025-11-10T09:27:02Z
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@futurebird Come on. Wealthier poor people is a contradiction in terms. When the rich hide away in their residences behind razor wire, they will need some fundamental difference between what they offer their service staff and what those outside the fence will have. That is, those surviving outside the fence.