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posted on 7/1/2025 09:12Re: people often accuse the left of the polictics of envy - Snout
when we propose wealth or income taxes on people with obscene wealth or incomes.
No, it's societal self-defence against the cancer of unconstrained growth in inequality. Trickle down economics is discredited and disproven.
And the psychopathically greedy in particular do everything in their power to hoard wealth, for no useful benefit that I can see.
There is the odd philanphropist like Gates but they're thin on the ground compared to even Victorian times. They used to build libraries and opera houses; now they have a race to space.
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No, it's societal self-defence against the cancer of unconstrained growth in inequality. Trickle down economics is discredited and disproven.
And the psychopathically greedy in particular do everything in their power to hoard wealth, for no useful benefit that I can see.
There is the odd philanphropist like Gates but they're thin on the ground compared to even Victorian times. They used to build libraries and opera houses; now they have a race to space.
- SS24 playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4dbGZi14fKkDLFwEtXMeeW?si=vDWz9bFIRHaizaBqa2dlPA&pi=fFPiuIwSSoyYX -
- This is so so morally wrong - Gav 6/1 14:48 (read 90 times, 3 posts in thread)
- Re: people often accuse the left of the polictics of envy - Snout 7/1 09:12 (read 87 times)
- as per your post below - Gramsci. 8/1 22:54 (read 71 times)
- Re: people often accuse the left of the polictics of envy - Snout 7/1 09:12 (read 87 times)