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Erik Kemp 🇪🇺

@Strandjunker Agreed! And yet when people try to organise a European Citizen's Initiative called 'Tax the rich' it only receives 349.674 out of the 1.000.000 needed signatures: tax-the-rich.eu/ .

So either:
1) People agree on taxing the rich, but don't care enough about changing it to become politically active

2) Those who find this topic important don't know how to bring together people and movements along a common goal.

25 October at 17:38 | Wall-to-wall | Open on tukkers.online
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Gilbert Pilz

@erikkemp - You can't use a system that is owned by the rich to constrain the activities of its owners.

The pandemic showed us what to do. If even a significant fraction of us were to simply stop working for even a couple of weeks, their system would hemorrhage trillions of dollars.

25 October at 18:12 | Open on mastodon.social
yadarehey

@gpilz @erikkemp Agreed. And that may be the only thing that will be able to stop their continued and accelerating accumulation of wealth.

25 October at 20:04 | Open on mastodon.online
James Wells

@erikkemp
It it more likely option 3;
People don't want to tax the rich because they think they are going to win the lottery and become rich.

@Strandjunker

25 October at 22:46 | Open on mastodon.acm.org
floydgump

@nikatjef @erikkemp @Strandjunker Yep a lot of fools chasing the delusional fool's gold.

25 October at 23:24 | Open on mastodon.social
rootfake

@gumpfloyd @nikatjef @erikkemp @Strandjunker yeah, the whole "Americans don't view themselves as working class, they view themselves as temporarily embarrassed billionaires" thing is a huge part of the problem, it explains so much of American behavior.

26 October at 5:54 | Open on mastodon.social
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