underwhelmingpossumMar 13
Ericka Simone

What is actively happening now is exactly why Billionaires should not be allowed to exist without heavy taxation.

Never has a person obtained/hoarded up this amount of wealth… and actually done ANYTHING useful to better the society and people who they stole their wealth from. At this point, they end up harming society more than helping it.

Billionaires in all their forms are a cancer.

Mar 12 at 9:26pmWeb
Show threadEricka SimoneMar 12

Also, basic year one econ would teach you that you wouldn’t need to tax billionaires if you just paid workers fairly for their very valuable labor.

But yeah. Let’s just continue to play into capitalist psychosis.

Show threadMy camera shoots fascistsMar 13

@ErickaSimone

Pay and protect workers, protect the environment, protect society, break up monopolies, protect consumers — lots of other things in addition to extreme progressive taxation would, if combined, pretty much preclude the existence of billionaires. Let's implement them all.

Show threadさよなら皆さんMar 12
@ErickaSimone once your wealth surpasses 999,999,999 in whatever your local currency or equivalent you should immediately be executed. #NoBillionaires #Anticapitalism
Show threadDopes The FrogmanMar 12
@ErickaSimone and these same people will tell us working stiffs that we have to work harder. Working hard used to work when everything wasn't complicated, consumer goods lasted forever, and you actually OWNED things.
Show threadEricka SimoneMar 12
@macacator work harder for 1/10 of what you deserve and would normally be paid if labor laws were actually equitable and hadn’t been corrupted. It’s sickening.
Show threadNo WayMar 13
@ErickaSimone hey now, no one cares about housing.
Show threadCris 🇰🇵🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🏴🗳️💉Mar 13
Cancer at least is natural, billionaires are an abomination (you're 100% right)
Show threadLimey_TankMar 13
@ErickaSimone I submit for your consideration, the ONLY counter example I know of.
Chuck Feeney, who actively gave it ALL away and ensured that he died penniless.
Show threadEricka SimoneMar 13
@Limey_tank you know, there are a few like Feeney who made sure to give it all away before they died, to see their wealth distributed. A woman in NY just left a billion to a local medical school which pays off tuition for the next few years. We should make a list of those people.
Show threadLimey_TankMar 13
@ErickaSimone make it trendy to give it all away
Show threadEricka SimoneMar 13
@Limey_tank this reminded me why Dolly Parton is my hero. lol.