Billionaires are looting the world.

[elfburgerman@mastodon.social]

@nickofnz
We're not in a recession; we're in a robbery that has the ones being robbed suffering from Stockholm syndrome.
They wouldn't be helping Elon M., Mark Z., Jeff B, etc. to get richer if they weren't. If they weren't, they would completely ignore the companies of those robbers.

[bartok@kolektiva.social]

@nickofnz Kleptomanic deadbeats.

[dyingworld@mastodon.social]

@nickofnz Oligarchs love recessions. It allows them the opportunity to steal wealth from the rest of us

[highlandlawyer@mastodon.social]

@nickofnz
The Klept (per William Gibson)

[jackpine@ohai.social]

@nickofnz
The ‘Essential‑Living’ surcharge puts a 90 % tax on any income above $761 K – the point where even the richest spend more than the average American’s grocery budget. Targeting the top 1 % only, it could pull in about $1.4 T a year and erase the $33 T federal deficit in ~30 years, while funneling a 20 % credit into affordable housing, clean energy, and workforce training. A laser‑focused, progressive revenue boost that leaves 99 % of taxpayers untouched.

[ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai]

@nickofnz

Inflation is robbery. Interest is robbery.

Profit are theft

[meneerdebruin@mastodon.nl]

@nickofnz Tax the greedy.

[cjmoorehead@techhub.social]

@nickofnz Luigi Mangione has the solution.

[reggiehere@mastodon.social]

@nickofnz

We're in a second Gilded Age and the oligarch objective is to control enough information and infrastructure to create a permanent monopoly based on State and individual dependency.

Individuals and govts can make a stand by no longer using US big tech, but how many people are prepared to give up their Facebook, Windows, WhatsApp, Apple, Google, Android, AWS, GCP, Azure, Xitter, BSky, Insta, ...?

[_l1vy_@mstdn.social]

@nickofnz ⬆️ THANK you

[_l1vy_@mstdn.social]

@sean @nickofnz

When I was a child we learned about them in history class; we have straight-up ROBBER BARONS devastating the earth once again. But exponentially worse this time.

[_l1vy_@mstdn.social]

@ReggieHere @nickofnz

A lot of us, even if bit by bit

[sean@mastodon.me.uk]

@_L1vY_ @nickofnz I mean they called themselves Kings and created huge rituals to mark themselves as special

But yeah they were ROBBER BARONS all of them

and to this day King Charles exempts himself from any law he doesn't like (including discrimination law, environmental protection etc)

There is a reason Trump wants to be a King

[_l1vy_@mstdn.social]

@vaishnav_k @nickofnz

You can't join them. They starve and burn everyone around them and you're not one of them.

Billionaire-posting not super welcome here; bye.

[_l1vy_@mstdn.social]

@sean @nickofnz

You're not wrong 😓😤

[reggiehere@mastodon.social]

@_L1vY_

I'm hopeful.

Afterall, who would want to be living in a Gestapo-style police state with a smartphone providing real-time intelligence updates?

@nickofnz

[_l1vy_@mstdn.social]

@ReggieHere @nickofnz

Many people still don't get it but more understand every day.

[vgarzareyna@functional.cafe]

@nickofnz (#EatTheRich)

[reggiehere@mastodon.social]

@_L1vY_

Agreed. Everyone mocked the Facebook doomsayers until Facebook proved them right.

@nickofnz

[bagofnails@mastodon.social]

@sean @nickofnz

I like Dummy Don is a greedy idiot!

Am watching the idiot speak at Davos. Nothing but lies.