• RubberDuck@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Absolutely. I think the billionaire class has been hoarding all the wealth at the expense of everyone else and that needs to be adressed.

    Rutger Bergmans said it best at Davos. All these rich people doing philanthropy with a fraction of their wealth, paying big salaries from their charities to the people that run them, helping people they think are worhy. While systems to reach those most in need are already in place. Pay your taxes! Then we can finance social services like healthcare, education, psychological help, addiction treatment, housing, emergency services, social services, childcare and more… much more. We could even invest in poorer countries to help them get over the hump that they are stuck behind… and not in a “white man knows best” way, or let’s transfer a large sum of money to the dictator of the day… actual help (how and what I’ll leave to smarter people yet again).

    The market can take case of all things people can choose, but stuff everyone needs or you cannot choose should be handled by the government or at the very least be very very well regulated. Also the free market needs to be regulated to make sure they don’t end up poisoning us or something.

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      1 month ago

      I fully agree with all you’re saying in your second paragraph. My whole point is that, historically, this sort of progress isn’t achieved by voting, but by organized worker action through unionizing and strikes.