• 33KK
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    311 months ago

    The thing is, you can’t get that rich by playing fair, it’s only possible at the expense of others. And I can assure you, most rich people are activelty making our lives worse.

      • 33KK
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        111 months ago

        Nothing? 💀 Show me a single billionaire that got rich by playing fair

          • 33KK
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            111 months ago

            Anticonsumer, anticompetitive practices, corruption and lobbying in their own interest, propaganda, tax evasion…

            • @SCB@lemmy.world
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              111 months ago

              I lobbied in my own interest not 15 minutes ago, as part of Citizens Climate Lobby. Just got off a zoom meeting with my rep. Lobbying is not inherently bad.

              Can you prove tax evasion? That’s a serious crime.

              Also, shameless plug - consider joining your local chapter of CCL! Took me 5 minutes to sign up and all meetings have been via zoom.

              https://citizensclimatelobby.org/

              • 33KK
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                211 months ago

                Yes, I didn’t mean that lobbying in general is bad, I mean lobbying against the interest of the public. It’s commonly done by basically any big corporation + propaganda to gaslight people into believing that its in their benefit ( an example i have on hand: https://web.archive.org/web/20201102203132/https://safeandsecuredata.org/get-the-facts/ )

                By tax evasion I mean in general doing anything to not have to pay tax, lobbying against rich people tax, keeping your assets as loans, etc.

                I’ll look into the shameless plug