Qasim Rashid, Esq.Feb 12, 2025

Billionaires didn't become billionaires by caring about people. They became billionaires by exploiting people.

So when you see billionaires work to dismantle the CFPB, US AID, NIH, CDC, and social welfare programs in general, know that it isn't because they think it'll help people.

It's because all they know how to do is exploit.

That's who they are.

Show threadBeggar MidasFeb 12, 2025
@QasimRashid Some just became billionaires by semi-accident and do care. By overgeneralizing & lumping them in with the bad ones you're limiting their willingness to throw in with us. Nobody wants to join a side utterly hostile to them.
Show thread𝗖 𝗔 𝗧Feb 12, 2025

@Beggarmidas @QasimRashid

Working class movements don't need billionaires in order to be successful. They only make up about 1% of the population, while the workers not only make up 99%, but do all of the necessary work to keep society functioning. Workers are the powerhouse of society, and appealing to them is necessary for change. What we need is the unification of the working class, not pandering to "good billionaires who aren't really that bad."
#socialism #communism #capitalism #anarchism

Show threadBeggar Midas
@Radical_EgoCom @QasimRashid Buddyboy. This is about survival, and whether we will have a functioning democracy to even argue finer points like this after the dust settles. Worry about that, not your personal grudgematch with wealth. It's on hold indefinitely until we get our country back.
Feb 13, 2025 at 12:32amWeb
Show thread𝗖 𝗔 𝗧Feb 13, 2025

@Beggarmidas @QasimRashid

Wealth inequality, oligarchy, and their progenitor, capitalism, are the problems. Survival means people like you getting over your aversion of focusing on serious economic issues, focusing on them, and eliminating them, not chastising people for doing so. All you're doing is helping the capitalist ruling class stay in power with this comment of yours.
#socialism #communism #capitalism #anarchism

Show threadBeggar MidasFeb 13, 2025
@Radical_EgoCom @QasimRashid They're just a symtom, my boy. This is something that's been going on in one form or another since the invention of writing. Probably much earlier. Probably started when we as a species moved to agriculture.
And all your high minded goals & beliefs wont ever make a dent in it. The only thing that *ever* will is if & when we move to a post scarcity society, because that's where all the status signaling and social climbers expectations come apart at the seams.