Graphic shows head shots of Bloomberg, Bezos, Musk, and Zuckerberg. Text says: The billionaire is not your friend. He is, however, an enemy of his workers, a defender of the corrupt status quo, a leech, and not a self-made man.

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1. Bread and Circuses (breadandcircuses@climatejustice.social)'s status on Thursday, 03-Aug-2023 20:16:41 UTC Bread and Circuses

   Billionaires should not exist.
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   It is impossible to *earn* a billion dollars. Take any exorbitant salary you like — let’s say $500,000 per year — and calculate how many years you would have to work, spending nothing, to earn your first billion. At $500k/year, it would take 2,000 years. Or, if you simply steal $3 from every single American, you can make a billion in a single year.

   Billionaires’ wealth comes only from wage theft from workers. It is never earned. It is estimated that ~5% of deaths in the US are attributable to poverty, making every billionaire a de-facto mass murderer. No one becomes a billionaire because they are intelligent or talented; people become billionaires because they are able to rob millions of other people into poverty, destitution, and early death — and still sleep soundly at night.

   These are the people determining our future. They are brain-damaged by power. [See https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/07/power-causes-brain-damage/528711/] Billionaires are, by definition, psychopaths. They believe they are chosen by the universe to live as gods. If you are counting on billionaires to save the planet because “it’s in their best interest,” you misunderstand their interests.
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   That's an excerpt from a long and very informative piece by Sam Hall (@SamYourEyes).

   FULL ARTICLE -- https://medium.com/@samyoureyes/the-busy-workers-handbook-to-the-apocalypse-7790666afde7

   #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice #Capitalism