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Real estate titan compares 'tax the rich' slogan to racial slurs (www.politico.com)

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[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 93 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Roth on Tuesday stressed the significant contributions of the city’s wealthiest residents to its tax base and said these members of the so-called one-percent are “not enemies” and are “at the top of the great American economic pyramid for a reason.”

There it is. The "we're better than you and deserve more" conceit.

[–] badgermurphy@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago (2 children)

That reason: they are so pathologically greedy that they grubbed up way more money than anyone could need and more than anyone else around.

[–] tmyakal@infosec.pub 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If all it took to be rich was pathological greed, there would actually be even more billionaires.

It's pathological greed and generational wealth.

[–] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Don’t forget the theft. Workers create value that capitalists steal. Profit is stolen wages.

[–] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

And that grubbing explicitly is stealing from the people who actually create the money, the workers.

[–] brax@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 days ago

Interesting how they're there for being stains on humanity, but they think they're special.