• snooggums@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    The wealthy do not deserve praise for spending the money they leeched from society to solve problems that could have been paid for by taxes they avoided paying. The wealthy are NOT going to solve society’s problems long term, just drag them out so society relies on them instead of solving it themselves.

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      9 hours ago

      Inbe4 the starter-home priced housing is bought up, demolished, rebuilt, and sold as luxury housing on the market, as airbnbs, or rentals with no rent control.

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      8 hours ago

      Do you chuds ever get tired of repeating the same drivel over and over?

      Yeah I’m am pretty glad my taxes totally went to buy more missiles and tanks. /s

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          7 hours ago

          Yeah, ok. Look at our governments since the dawn of time and tell me when that’s happening moron.

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            7 hours ago

            Look at the wealthy since the dawn of time and tell me that they are a net benefit to society.

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              7 hours ago

              Such a problem that has yet to be solved by any government.

              And you expect those same governments to just magically spend that money wisely.

              Hilarious.

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      7 hours ago

      He’s a millionaire, not a billionaire. Calm down. A millionaire most likely worked hard and earned their wealth. It’s billionaires who cheat.

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        6 hours ago

        Millionaire covers everyone from having a million or two due to home equity all the way to 999 million because they just haven’t hit a billion yet. Someone who can drop a million dollars or more and still be a millionaire has multiple millions.

        Equating the two is “not all millionaires”.

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          38 minutes ago

          From my little bit of research, he created and sold a software startup for around $320mil. He seems to consider it something he “won” through luck instead of earned through merit

          Reading up on him, it seems he researched successful programs for helping people out of homelessness with the intent to make sure nobody in his hometown would be unhoused. He appears to be pretty involved in the community too