"The rich won't save us, no matter how much we cut their taxes"
Sticker spotted in in Hillsboro, Oregon
They won’t taste good, either, but we can make chili out of ‘em.
“They got you fighting a culture war to stop you fighting a class war”
Sticker spotted in San Antonio, Texas
“They got you fighting a culture war to stop you fighting a class war”
Sticker spotted in San Antonio, Texas
Nailed it!
…Gladys Kravitz is real. She lives in every third house on every block in this little Village of the Damned. And she drives a Prius.
the class war is not some hypothetical future event. class war is being waged right now, by the ruling class, against you, every single day of your life. the question is what you're going to do to fight back.
I’d like to point out that this is the same guy who told millennials to stop eating avocado toast 6 years ago
fight the class war or become it's victim
I was thinking about why he would say all that at a property summit. that's real estate. this is not about that. why does he want to punish workers until they worship him? why does a real estate investor want a 40% unemployment rate?
it's so you and your neighbors lose your homes or have to sell them for money to live. then he can buy them all for cheap, raise the rent, and sell them to other landlords. or use the land to build more big ass parking lots with chain stores that pay minimum wage
And on that note remember how people lost their businesses and houses when COVID first hit?
Yeah who do you think bought those up? Another mom and pop?
I just saw a TikTok where someone who owns an HVAC business is losing business. Corporations bought the competition. They said that they have $5k to invest for marketing to improve business. But that is laughable. They were told that their $5k investment would be worthless when the competition can spend $50k.
Private equity is moving into the home services market. On top of buying all the houses.
It was actually a response to this video that talks about wall Street buying up houses
And yeah it's a big fucking deal and actually something that every single American should be worried about. People have been desperately trying to get the government to regulate these markets.
People in real estate are about to suck us fucking dry. Buy up houses and make them unaffordable, rent them for ridiculous prices, and ALSO charge us ridiculous prices for the services that homes need.
THATS why he's talking about making sure workers are primed to be exploited this way.
It's vital for that man and his lifestyle that we are Not able to compete in that market and cause him to lose Any of the profit he stands to gain. It's VITAL that you don't earn enough to make housing affordable.
Jesus fuck. (Sorry to have to bring you into this Jesus).
It is crazy to me. This guy is a human being, and we are human beings. Why can’t he see that? Why can’t he just like… have empathy?
Read a damn book and be happy with living your stable comfortable life, stop working so damn hard to make peoples lives hell just so your damn number in the bank gets bigger.
You’re so close….
Non-Human Biological Entities.
They’re not “Human”.
ProTip: Forehead.
WHAT DOES ELON MUSK firing 6,500 people at Twitter have to do with the Writers Guild of America and actors in SAG-AFTRA going on strike? How is Meta axing 21,000 employees connected to more and more doctors wondering if they have to unionize? And how is this all related to Donald Trump taking a government map of Hurricane Dorian’s projected path in 2020 and scrawling on it with a Sharpie?
The answer is that America’s owners have opened a new front in their battle against everyone else, declaring war on the class of technocrats who once were their greatest allies.
The Class War Launched by America’s Wealthiest Is Getting More Savage
In 1962 the wealthiest 1 percent of American households had 125 times the wealth of the median household. Now it’s 190 times as much. Is that a case of a rising tide lifting all boats, just a few of them a little bit higher? No.
From 1950 to 1965, median family income rose from $24,000 a year to $38,000 a year. That’s close to 4 percent a year, close to 60 percent over 15 years. That’s a rising tide.
In 1964 there was a big tax cut. That’s when things started to slow down for average people. By the mid-’70s the rise of the middle class stalled. From 1975 to 2010 median family income rose $42,936 to $49,777. That’s not quite 16 percent over 25 years, less than six-tenths of 1 percent per year.
Briefly, when taxes went up under Clinton, median income rose, peaked at $52,587 in 1999, and then, after Bush cut taxes, declined. Keep in mind that this is median family income. In the ’50s and ’60s, family income was usually earned by a single person. Today, family income normally comes from at least two people.
Tomorrow we celebrate MLK day. What many don’t know about a hero of american history is that he was not only a pioneer for social equality, but also for economic equality. His fight during the last two years of his life before his assassination was lightly covered by the media, simply because they didn’t like his message. When his message changed from one of “our skin color makes no difference” to “we must not let our economic status make a difference” the corporations were much less interested in his promotion. Continue his fight!
5 million people in this country live on food stamps alone tonight. Sleep easy, Middle America. Sleep easy.
^^^^
Read this.
Food stamps and SSI do NOT allow for a comfortable or safe life.
It’s absurd to expect anyone anywhere to live on roughly $1k/mo + $250 for food.
The entire system must be re-thought and re-vamped.
