A Boring Dystopia

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The world we live in isn't just dystopic, it isn't just stupid, trying to describe all the ways it sucks just makes for a really boring story.

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These Poor Billionaires Are Melting Down Over Taxing the Rich (jacobin.com)

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“I must say that I consider the phrase tax the rich — quote tax the rich — when spit out with anger and contempt by politicians both here and across the country, to be just as hateful as some disgusting racial slurs, and even the phrase ‘from the river to the sea,’” Vornado Realty Trust CEO Steve Roth recently said on an earnings call, commenting on New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s recently announced plans to tax luxury second homes owned by superrich people who don’t live in the city.

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[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago

"Calling me a greedy hoarder when I'm greedily hoarding more wealth than hundreds of millions of people combined, by am doing it by exploiting them, which is also indirectly destroying the only planet known to support life... is exactly as offensive as a genocide"