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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The thing is, you can't get that rich by playing fair, it's only possible at the expense of others. And I can assure you, most rich people are activelty making our lives worse.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Again that's a huge claim with nothing to back it up.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nothing? 💀 Show me a single billionaire that got rich by playing fair

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anticonsumer, anticompetitive practices, corruption and lobbying in their own interest, propaganda, tax evasion...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I lobbied in my own interest not 15 minutes ago, as part of Citizens Climate Lobby. Just got off a zoom meeting with my rep. Lobbying is not inherently bad.

Can you prove tax evasion? That's a serious crime.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, I didn't mean that lobbying in general is bad, I mean lobbying against the interest of the public. It's commonly done by basically any big corporation + propaganda to gaslight people into believing that its in their benefit ( an example i have on hand: https://web.archive.org/web/20201102203132/https://safeandsecuredata.org/get-the-facts/ )

By tax evasion I mean in general doing anything to not have to pay tax, lobbying against rich people tax, keeping your assets as loans, etc.

I'll look into the shameless plug