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> I'm not going to make any prescriptions about how the money be spent, but the important part is that you take it away from those damn rich people!
by tengbretson 6y ago
> I'm not going to make any prescriptions about how the money be spent, but the important part is that you take it away from those damn rich people!
- Supermancho 6y agoYou can't take a capitalist society's costs from the poor unless you want to dispense with the whole idea, eventually, anyway.
- RandomBacon 6y agoThat statement reminds me of this saying: "If I can't have it, neither can you." I just did an internet search, and it's called "crab mentality" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_mentality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_mentality > While any one crab could easily escape, its efforts will be undermined by others, ensuring the group's collective demise.
- klmadfejno 6y agoPeople feel really entitled to what they earned, because, they earned it. The thing is, their ability to earn it is predicated on society being set up in such a way that the resources available to them make that path of earning possible. It's hardly unreasonable to think that one should pay extra back to society to accommodate that.