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[–] kamen@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

As a photographer I'm wondering why would billionaires give autofocus about poor people...

/s obviously

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (6 children)

For the amount of references to people defending CEOS and billionaires, I never actually see any unless I walk by a TV blaring Fox News.

[–] sockenklaus@sh.itjust.works 11 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Come to Germany. We had a wealth tax until 1996 and whenever it's revival is publicly discussed you can see that the majority is against it even when the majority of our people would never have to pay it and would profit from it. It's mind boggling that the people are still willing to defend our current "don't tax the rich" policy...

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah the whole AfD situation is extremely worrying to me.

[–] sockenklaus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago

It's not even the AfD. Most of the politic parties don't or at least didn't want to touch wealth tax.

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

You can see some in this very thread

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world -3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

So they're in the room with us right now? Can you describe them to us?

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Threads on Lemmy are open for everyone to see, isn't that neat?

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Fascinating. Are they there all the time or only when you think about them? Is there a specific trigger that causes you to see them?

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 points 18 hours ago

I've seen plenty of corpo bootlicking even on Lemmy.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

My younger brother. He is entirely sold on billionaire philanthropy and believes Elon is a visionary genius that constantly finds ways to upturn the status quo.

He also thinks Jeff Bezos is a nice guy because he's so nice in interviews.

[–] frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 11 points 1 day ago (8 children)

That's silly, a shocking amount of media sources are in cover their ass mode not just fox. LinkedIn has posts. Twitter has posts. Even SNL, shockingly, is a little bit "can we not be cheering a killer on air?"

So..I call bs, this is everywhere.

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[–] CaptnNMorgan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Nobody I work with is on the same page as me about this subject, but they also don't know enough about it to feel comfortable disagreeing with me. I think a lot of people relate more to a CEO than Luigi for the simple fact that they think or feel that it's more likely for them to be in the CEOs position than a shooter. As delusional as that is, it's a factor that has always put the working class against themselves.

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