George Takei  🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽Apr 9, 2025
Thanks, Fox “News.”
Show threadKazinatorApr 9, 2025

@georgetakei

It's not even clear why the rich people would want to convince anyone those benefits are bad, since they aren't paying for it, and obtain indirect benefits: workers who feel more secure, and are healthier and better educated.

Who pays for it all is the higher earning working class. They carry it for the lower earning working class and the nonworking class.

Show threadJames M.Apr 9, 2025
@Kazinator @georgetakei the very wealthy want any safety net to go away, since they rely on a desperate labor pool to do anything they command. If people weren't desperate, they wouldn't have to serve the wealthy.
Show threadKazinator

@jamesmarshall @georgetakei

I don't know about that. Have you been to #Canada ?

People have health care and some free education, and are still desperate. Those things don't put a roof over your head or food on the table.

(Given that the wealthy have to do is buy up all the housing for investment, why do they have to be against social safety nets, too.)

Apr 9, 2025 at 8:41pmWeb