72% of Americans Say the Rich 'Have Too Much' as GOP Pursues Another Handout for Billionaires
72% of Americans Say the Rich 'Have Too Much' as GOP Pursues Another Handout for Billionaires | Common Dreams
6% said "the poor have too much"
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Are you not aware that poor people have smartphones these days? Back in my day being poor meant having absolutely nothing. I say we take their phones away and their shoes too for good measure. That way they’ll know what true poverty is like /s
Are 6% of respondents 12-year-olds that identify as "your dad's a cuck"?
Mentally, about 45 % of the voting population are exactly that.
I'm more surprised that the survey even had that as an option. I think the survey options were just:
Kind of a braindead survey tbh and probably doesn't justify an article.
I mean the literal definition of poor is that they don't have enough.
The ones who organized the republicans
72% is way too low given how insane the current wealth distribution is. Fully 1/4 of the population have drunk the kool-aid
"I'm going to be rich, soon" they say while they're considering payment plans for a Taco Bell order.
I think more than 3% of the population considers themselves rich
Most people don't think of it this way, but if you live in North America or Europe, you are part of the global 1%.
There are more poor than rich. We just have to come together. There is strength in numbers.
No way. Americans are proud they are not communists, meaning they complain but ultimately worship the rich
Numbers are less relevant when the other side has the most sophisticated surveilance system on the planet coupled with the most deadly military.
Key people inside the system have to defect in order to short-circuit that power.
But muh “dey took er jerbs”!
In related news, 28% of Americans are complete and utter fucking morons.
28% of Americans think they are billionaires that are just suffering a temporary financial setback.
"If it wasn't for those Democrats, we'd all be rich!"
friendly reminder, it would take 1,460,714,285 weeks of minimum wage to earn musks net worth. That's 27 million years.
Friendly reminder that even someone making $1M per year today still has less true buying power than a 10 year old child laborer earning $1 per hour in the late 1950s
Where the fuck were they during the election?
Dumbfucks believed the orange guy who was sitting in front of the billionaires. Lets not forget that a third of the us isn’t capable of reading above the 6th grade level.
It's more about lack of Critical Thinking Skills than anything else.
It ain't about "having too much". Billionaires shouldn't exist. Ipso facto, their very existence only shows that corruption and greed can influence anything to point that whatever that thing is only serves those corrupted. End it. There should be no Billionaires.
In other words, a billion is too much money for one person to have.
It's the POWER that a billion bucks holds that's dangerous. We now have numerous billionaires with enough money to negotiate their own terms with foreign governments, without regard to how it might affect America as a whole. Eventually, world-wide power will be held by the Sociopathic Oligarchs, and instead of countries regulating THEM, they'll be regulating the countries to suit their own selfish purposes.
And eventually, that will lead to Sociopathic Oligarchs making conflicting demands, and they'll end up going to war with each other, with countries and citizens caught in the crossfire.
The rich have too much by definition, but billionaires in America have an historically obscene amount of wealth. Wealth inequality in today’s America has surpassed pre-Revolution France.
The survey only involved like 950 people and it only defined it as, "the rich" which seems pretty vague. Given the survey also mentions Bezos and Musk it wouldn't surprise me if that is the group having too much on this survey, not humble millionaires like you and me.
Don't forget all of the people who will certainly be millionaires in the future! They will definitely not be middle class and delusional for the rest of their lives
Middle-class people will be millionaires.
$1M equates to $40k/year income in retirement at a 4% SWR (safe withdrawal rate). In 2025, that's not actually a lot, even if you have Social Security on top of it.
If you're not a millionaire by the time you're retired, you're damn near impoverished. The only way for that to count as "middle class" (in the "close to the median income" sense) is if the middle class is destroyed (in the "existing separate and distinct from the lower class" sense).
(INB4 somebody chimes in with "it never was separate and distinct" -- yeah, yeah, I know, working-class solidarity and all that. But you get my point, right?)
The difference between a million and a billion is about a billion. So even millionaires look like pathetic poors to Billionaires.
No they don't, their voting clearly shows the opposite.
"Donald Trump stands up for the little guy like you and me" - the mental giants we're dealing with
Voting doesnt mean shit.
Assuming the numbers aren't straight up fake and red team didnt cheat at the last mile.¹
Assuming everyone who wanted to got to²
And most people weren't so demoralized by every option that remotely represented them or ehat they wanted be ratfucked or blatant lies that just flipped and did the same old shit anyway³
You still have a shitty system made to disenfranchise people by choosing aristocratic proxies rather than members of their communities, keeping them alienated at every step from the actual decision making that effects their lives.
¹you'd have to be dumber than a box of disposable hammers
²delusional, bigoted or both
³have you talked to an american this century? Just read a history book?
Be nice if they fucking voted that way.
Only 72%?
Fucking reruns. I’ve seen this one before.
This is the one that ends with rich people’s heads in baskets.
No, this one ends with these same people continuing to vote for Republicans because they're awful people.
I wish but I dunno... Occupy Wall St fell apart, and I think without a dedicated leftist group organization this is bound to fail as well. The red scare broke any chance of a labor party in the country for generations, and assuming we survive the current dictator (and I'm somewhat optimistic so let's go with that), I think we'll be back to status quo soon enough. There was a brief period during lockdown where even normies could somewhat tell that money is all just kinda made up, but that's a distant memory at this point.
I think the absolute limit of what we can realistically hope for during a regime change is better health care, and don't get me wrong that would be a huge step in the right direction. But otherwise I don't have much expectation that we'll stop being wage slaves, let alone be eating the rich any time soon.
no shit Capt. obvious
I guess their solid grasp of racism and bigotry always wins
The other 28% are the rich
Not quite. The other 0.1% are the rich, and the remaining 27.9% are either just stupid or are delusional enough to think that they'll ever become the rich.
And yet, about half of voting Americans will actively ignore those impulses and choose a party that openly campaigns on tax reductions while it drums up fears surrounding issues they largely agree with (when presented in a non-partisan context) so does it really matter what they say?
45% of voting age Americans didn't even fucking bother to vote
Well, a lot of them decided the genocide half way across the world was more important than the genocide they would help to trigger back home.
How any didn’t vote, and how many were removed from voter rolls or didn’t have the right ID or were gerrymandered or
And they won't next time either. Stop worrying about them and focus on those who do vote.
Well to be fair they also know democrats only say they will fix the issue and then immediately do the same things the republicans do because they just cannot do without that sweet corporate cheddar.
I figure their logic is that at least the republicans are honest about it.
I missed the part where the Democrats were cutting social security, Medicare, and Medicaid. And repealing the ACA. And attacking LGBTQ people. And deploying the military against American civilians. And sending people to foreign gulags en mass without trial. And attacking voting rights.
Yep, they sure are the same.
If you can't tell the difference between Biden and Trump, then you need to quit sniffing glue.
That's the narrative pushed by Russia anyway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics