"The problem with the billionaire system is that it just so happens the notion that it is a virtuous and generative thing for fewer and fewer people to seize more and more of a system's resources by robbing and murdering everyone else simply isn’t true.

[susankayequinn@wandering.shop]

@wdlindsy this is an excellent, scathing, and damningly true article

[lupus_blackfur@mastodon.world]

@wdlindsy

Can't have both...

And the steal-ionaires obv know this as demonstrated by their prevailing anti-democratic goals.

Robber Barons Unite!! In favor of unfettered capitalism!!

But they're the smarterer... Simply cause they have the money... Even if they didn't make that money themselves...

FFS.

🫏🫏

Sociopathic?

[burnoutqueen@todon.nl]

@wdlindsy we don't have a democracy.

We never had a democracy.

At first, it was a slavocracy. Then, it was a white supremacist ethnostate. Now, it is a dictatorship of the billionaire elite.

[peterbutler@mas.to]

@wdlindsy

FYI, @JuliusGoat is on Mastodon and is an excellent follow

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@peterbutler @JuliusGoat Thank you — yes, I've been following him and agree.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@burnoutqueen I think any honest and informed person knows that democracy in the US has been from its inception aspirational and unrealized — and deeply flawed. Facing that, we can either give up the democratic experiement altogether and succumb to authoritarianism, or keep fighting to realize what hasn't yet been realized.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@lupus_blackfur Yes, I agree.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@susankayequinn I agree!

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Paragone Adam Smith created a system that Reagan and his cronies tried to turn into the trickle-down theory. And you're right: does not work.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@GreenRoc Yes — many of us stand right with you in this experience and these convictions.