Mamdani, the presumptive Democratic nominee to be the next mayor of New York and a self-identified democratic socialist, said Sunday billionaires contribute to inequality.
but it doesn’t make sense in the post-scarcity world we live in today.
Money is the scarce resource. If people don’t have money, they don’t get access to any of this post-scarcity food.
The poor having access to resources would actually increase the wealth at the top
Yeah, and then it gets stuck up there.
Billionaires are not just a funny artifact of the system, they are the leeches draining it of all its blood. They are giant reservoirs collecting our river water and keeping it from the water cycle.
You’re essentially defending the market as it is today by pointing to how it was 40 years ago. We could fix it, roll time back and lift the house, but then we’ll be dealing with this again 40 years from now; it’s not just citizen’s united, the house is sinking.
How do you have billionaires in a system that doesn’t pool money into fewer and fewer hands? This is a contradiction.
Money is the scarce resource. If people don’t have money, they don’t get access to any of this post-scarcity food.
Yeah, and then it gets stuck up there.
Billionaires are not just a funny artifact of the system, they are the leeches draining it of all its blood. They are giant reservoirs collecting our river water and keeping it from the water cycle.
You’re essentially defending the market as it is today by pointing to how it was 40 years ago. We could fix it, roll time back and lift the house, but then we’ll be dealing with this again 40 years from now; it’s not just citizen’s united, the house is sinking.
How do you have billionaires in a system that doesn’t pool money into fewer and fewer hands? This is a contradiction.