Ned Yeung

Things that are not the problem:

"Inflation"
Unions
Minimum wage
Immigrants
Public spending
Social Services
Welfare
Homeless people
Gay people
Carbon Tax
Bike lanes
Mass transit
Trans healthcare
Women's healthcare
Genderqueer people
Indigenous land rights
Urban greenscaping
Public education
Public healthcare
Public libraries
Vaccines

#capitalism #NoBillionaires

May 22, 2024 at 5:47pmWeb
Show threadChurch of JeffMay 22, 2024
@ned -- #NoBillionaires
Show threadDoreen32128 ready to rumble!May 23, 2024
@ned Billion?? What a mess this world is in.
Show threadGrumbleMay 23, 2024

@ned A guy as disliked (maybe even as hated) as Elon Musk would be pretty fucking stupid to create a mob of 15000 people.

#EatTheRich

Show threadRalph (AF4EZ)May 23, 2024
@grumble209 @ned In Texas, with guns.
Hey, there are probably a dozen Barretts in that bunch. He's not going to be able to let an of them within a mile of him.
Show threadDave NearyMay 23, 2024
@ned Nice to see one of these getting orders of magnitude right!
Show threadiweinMay 23, 2024
@ned why is the board even asking it, and why aren't the shareholders not definitely going to deny this? Are those the same people by any chance, trying one last grift before the ship sinks?
Show threadKing KaufmanMay 23, 2024

@ned

$56 billion is enough to give the 15,000 laid off workers $3.7 million each — and you'd still have $500 million left over.

You could give $3.7 million to ANOTHER 135 people after that.

And you'd STILL have $500,000 left over.

Show threadStationkeeperMay 23, 2024

@ned Also nicely pointing out that every single one of those things that aren't the problem, Elon rates from "I don't give a shit" to "It's evil because it scares me"

12/10. No notes.

Show threadHelen LHMay 23, 2024
@ned philosophy tube has a great video that explains how some people use these things as phantasms to avoid thinking about or dealing with problems mostly caused by capitalism. It's the later half of the latest video. https://youtu.be/QVilpxowsUQ?si=6A09ZNyxhin1LSXn
Show threadhikewithrichardMay 23, 2024
@ned corruption. Musk is corrupted
Show threadSearingTruthMay 24, 2024

@ned

"Nothing for the poor, because they have been negligent and irresponsible.

Everything for the rich, because they have been negligent and irresponsible."
SearingTruth

Show threadFelixjkMay 24, 2024
@ned
If every employee of those 15000 earned 100000 per year, you could let them work for 37 years each. I mean they could have been productive.