Dr Desirée KozlowskiJul 2, 2023
Michael Downey 

 Elon Musk Wealth
2012: $2,000,000,000.00
2023: $234,000,000,000.00

 Mark Zuckerberg Wealth
2009: $2,000,000,000.00
2023: $105,000,000,000.00

👷🏽 US Federal Minimum Wage Workers:
2009: $7.25
2023: $7.25

➡️ "The cage match we should pay attention to is the one the billionaire class is waging against the working class." - Warren Gunnels

Related: A new Stockholm Syndrome-like tendency to call regular folks "elitist" for fighting back against Zuckerberg:

https://floss.social/@downey/110611425913261012

Michael Downey 🇺🇳 (@[email protected])

@[email protected] @[email protected] It's not preemptive when we have a decade long pattern of privacy and human rights abuses.

FLOSS.social
Jun 26, 2023 at 9:00pmWeb
Show threadキャリーJun 26, 2023
@downey Elon has done a lot to redistribute his wealth by donating it directly to Twitter shareholders.
Show threadBrett Sheffield (he/him)Jun 26, 2023

@downey There's some astonishing maths going on.

Apple is, to my astonishment, the "world's biggest company by market capitalization".

It hit $1 trillion for the first time in 2018.

Then $2 trillion in 2020.

Then it became the first company valued at $3 trillion in 2023.

That rate of rise is insane.

There are only 9 companies in the world > $1 trillion. Tesla is on that list. Not Volkswagen.

This is imaginary wealth. What happens when we stop believing this crap?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_public_corporations_by_market_capitalization

Show threadLPSJun 26, 2023
@downey what we're witnessing/living through is absolutely obscene!
Show threadpaulJun 26, 2023

@downey

it is called cancer and its terminal

Show threadpaulJun 26, 2023

@downey

it is called parasitism and it kills the host

Show threadpaulJun 26, 2023

@downey

they have succumbed to a mindset where “winning” means earning enough money to insulate themselves from the damage they are creating by earning money in that way. It’s as if they want to build a car that goes fast enough to escape from its own exhaust.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prepper-bunkers-apocalypse-survival-richest-rushkoff

The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse

Tech billionaires are buying up luxurious bunkers to survive a societal collapse they helped create, but like everything they do, it has unintended consequences

The Guardian
Show threadHulk Smash COVIDJun 28, 2023
@downey I think one of the best ways ppl could say F.U. to Elon, and even to the rest of em, is leaving Twitter.
Show threadVicki KyriakakisJun 28, 2023
@downey 100%. It's grossly and inhumanely obscene.
Show threadDeusJun 28, 2023
People egging them on for stunts like this (PIC) is what’s nauseating. Wait for the fanboys come up with posts like, “What marketing geniuses!!”. :barf bag please: 🤮
Show threadRebeccaJun 28, 2023
@downey Thank goodness it's trickling down, though...
Show threadBen Ford Jul 1, 2023
@rebecca_meadows @downey _something_ is trickling down……
Show threadLuke PhilippsJun 28, 2023
@downey
Show threadRobCorneliusJun 28, 2023
@downey And we should be armed...
Show threadpiper, aka vickaJun 28, 2023
@downey i'd feel better if more of us poor folks fought back. but by and large we're too busy trying to stay alive and sheltered for this kind of nonsense, and neither the rich nor the press pay us any mind.
Show threadPampaJun 28, 2023

@downey

So they could remain billionaires and between them give $10,000 to every one of 33.5m poor, hungry or ill chlidren who could well die in pain.

But they chose not to.

Guess what I wish for.

Show threadDavid Mitchell Jun 28, 2023

@downey

To make the arithmetic plain:

Zuckerberg’s increase is 6.8 million years of minimum wage work

Show threadAnthonyJK-AdminJun 28, 2023

@downey

Wayament.... wasn't MusKKKrat gripping hard recently about how he was "forced" to pay $11 billion in taxes last year?

Which amounts to....less than 5% of his total wealth?

My last year of employment as a $16/hour stocker, I ended up paying 18% of my gross pay in Fed taxes.

Whose "fair share" exactly??

Show threadRSJun 28, 2023
@downey the rich get richer on the backs of the working class. It’s time everyone stood together & brought the countries to a standstill
Show threadDani DanisJul 3, 2023
@downey @breadandcircuses