The Epstein Class believes that providing citizens with enough money to live a decent life while not requiring them to work will spoil them and turn them into useless marshmallows with toxic ideas, anti-social behaviors, and will actively tear at the social fabric.

Many experiments in Universal Basic Income have proven this to NOT be the case.

However, empirically, it turns out that giving someone 50 billion dollars causes them to cease making useful contributions to society, turns them into useless marshmallows with toxic ideas, anti-social behaviors, and they actively tear at the social fabric.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mralancooper/116256044021488351

I just want to stop here and point out how unconsciously ironic this is.

From the people who have more money than would be needed for a decent life many hundreds, if not, thousands of times over who do not have to work and who spend their time fucking up the lives of everyone else

When the Japanese live translation goes silent because the translators are too stunned to repeat your Pearl Harbor “joke” to the Japanese PM, you’ve officially reached a new level of diplomatic failure.

Those seconds of silence were the most honest reaction of the day.

In just over 1 year Trump has:
•Bombed 8 countries
•Perpetuated genocide in Gaza
•Stolen Venezuela's oil
•Blocked all oil to Cuba, sending Cuba into catastrophic & deadly energy shortages
•Cut USAID, which has already killed 700K people
•Bombed Iran & spiked a global fuel prices
•Eased sanctions on Russian oil & given Russia hundreds of millions

Meanwhile at home groceries are more expensive, unemployment is rising, manufacturing is collapsing, & democracy is in shambles.

Are we great yet?🧐

RE: https://helvede.net/@jwcph/116187391261317757

Also BTW, this mindset is fundamentally anti-democratic. You cannot act as a responsible voter in a democracy if you only care about yourself.

This is one of the reasons I'm finding that I can't in good conscience consider what is now known as right-wing policy to be a legitimate position in a democracy.

They say it's about having a small, effecient state but what they actually mean is having as little democracy as they can get away with - preferrably none.

#democracy #politics #valg2026