the rich and powerful like to tell us we'd be nothing without them leading us. in reality the reverse is true

They created the system that requires the capital they just so happen to have in order to do anything and then act like we need them because of their Risk Taking Qualities™®©

As AI steals more and more jobs I'm really curious what the "I'm A Job Creator"™®© ~~lie~~ argument is going to evolve into.

They'll use AI LLMs to summarize meetings, write emails and "advise" them on business decisions, all while still touting their importance despite automating what little work they still did.
I'd say they at least act as seat warmers, but you can buy one of those for a couple of bucks.
- How can they be a seat warmer when theyre on a golf course the entire time theyre "working hard,"?

My elderly father had this idea that "workers don't know how to run the business". I told him about all the idiotic things the management at my old job did over the advice of the people actually doing the work, and I think it made him think about it.

But they do create!... problems? We could be so boring without fighting them back! /s

But the oligarchs sweep crumbs off their table for us! Surely if we put more food on their table there will be more crumbs for us!

They told us a rising tide lifts all boats. They didn't tell us they'd strand us on the beach when the tide came in.

They do sometimes raise children...

But have you seen oligarchs' children?

Musk has a daughter that seems to have turned out okay, clearly they don't all suck.
- She was certainly not actively raised by him, that's why.

Yeah, but they figured out a loophole in the system that allows them to stack dollars for no real reason. That has to count for ~~something~~ everything

Not a loophole, it’s how the system is built. Publicly owned for-profit companies legally cannot perform actions that can be perceived as hurting their profits, such as raising wages or lowering prices to benefit workers/customers. Shareholder primacy. Executives are employed by the shareholders & owe workers nothing other than what the government mandates.
- Right, and whoever figured out that system was likely not working for tips, nor are many of the beneficiaries of that system today. So I guess I should clarify, I mean the system itself is a loophole that allows people who figure it out to avoid doing anything productive as long as their investment is large enough for them to live off others, whose work is part of a collective effort to ensure that the fantasy of a company's eternal growth continues unabated.
  The problem is you can never tell when that rabid pursuit will lead a company to ruin, and cause that investment to collapse overnight.
  So that means people spread their investment over multiple concerns attempting to pull off the fantasy of eternal growth so that the inevitable failure only impacts them a little bit at a time, assuming they aren't quick enough to move their investment to a different inevitable catastrophe in time to avoid the current catastrophe.
  You know, a house of cards.

You know what else they can't do?
Vote.

Yeah, but you know what they can do? Select the representatives we're allowed to vote for.

I've been thinking of this lately. Do bureaucrats even add anything to society? They're usually there as a way to make sure tax payer money is spent "efficiently" but in a capitalist society they seem to be there to prevent taxpayers from getting assistance? Genuine question.

Vague quote:

You the people have the power! The power to create happiness!.. As long as men die, liberty will never perish

I really wish I could have seen Charlie in person. Alas, it won't happen. But I do carry some of his flame in my heart

"It is we who plowed the prairies, built the cities where they trade

Dug the mines and built the workshops, endless miles of railroad laid

Now we stand outcast and starving 'midst the wonders we have made

But the union makes us strong

They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn

But without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn

We can break their haughty power gain our freedom when we learn

That the Union makes us strong"

Solidarity forever.