I know plenty of millionaires ... people who own property, vehicles and wealth that all amount to one or two million ... and they are still just getting by. They aren't that terribly wealthy - they don't live with any more luxury than most people, they just have more things.
Billionaires on the other hand are something else ... it's like comparing someone with a weight problem and calling millionaires slightly pudgy and billionaires are grossly overweight behemoths that can affect the structure of your house.
Here's a visual comparison using grains of rice of what a millionaire and billionaire and the wealth of someone like Jeff Bezos is
Millionaires with a few million dollars aren't the problem
The biggest problems are the handful of billionaires and the billionaires that are not Canadian but have a strangle hold on companies or corporations that affect Canada.
If the government could just tax the ever loving shit out of billionaires, they'd remove the single root cause of a lot of problems in the country and actually allow some sort of competition in all industries. This would allow the economy to spread the wealth to more Canadians than to a bunch of non-aligned billionaires who could care less what country they are attached to because their wealth is so great, they are basically their own country at this point.
Millionaires aren't the problem .... Billionaires are
No need for a tracker, predictions or allusions .... we're going to have proof soon when the country gets hit with a major hurricane, tornado or extreme weather storm.
I'll take a guess that it will take about three or four major events before everyone will say or do anything about it ... but even then, their corporate media will play it all down while the country continues to break down.
Yes there were ... we just didn't call them billionaires ... we called them Kings, Queens, Supreme Rulers, Emperors, God Kings
The world looks exactly the same now as it did 2,000 years ago politically because the idea of supreme and infinite wealth never went away. We've always had men who believed they could rule or own the entire world ... and we still do.
I always say and think about all this from the perspective of billionaires .... all they ever care about is money and the free flow of money everywhere. As long as money is moving and people believe in it, praise it and worship it, everything else can be tolerated and controlled.
The internet and free flowing communication allows for money to flow a lot .... without it money would quickly become segmented into tight regions and countries and everything becomes closed .... which makes it harder for money to flow, which makes it harder for a billionaire to make more money.
Same with World War or even nuclear war ... I don't think it will ever happen on purpose because once that first bomb goes off, billionaires will cease to be billionaires as the world financial system collapses. The billionaires won't care how many millions die, they'll be more upset that their imaginary digitally managed wealth will either decrease a lot or even completely. They know that in a post apocalyptic world, no one will care if you claim to be a billionaire if banks no longer exist. You might say that billionaires will have gold stashes around to fund their own personal army .... but that won't work either because their army will just kill them to take the wealth.
All of it is possible because of human greed .... all of it is under threat because of human greed .... and all of it is held in balance because of human greed.
Why bother? Just hire some guys pay them whatever money you can raise and get the hired hands to hunt down the bounty hunters. They put on masks call themselves ICE and Bob's your uncle. It's the wild west again ... just do whatever you want with a mask on and a gun. Everyone is doing it and it's the only way to get things done because the government isn't involved in anything anymore.
The privately controlled media that manipulated the image of this presidency, downplayed / ignored its failings, exaggerated the contempt for opponents and generally just passively accepted all this insanity as normal is not just complicit but an active participant in the rise and installation of authoritarianism in the US.
It's not an independent media any more ... it's a direct arm of corporate America ... the same corporate America that wants to usher in authoritarianism
Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario here - Ojibway/Cree from northern Ontario.
Happy Canada Day to all my Canadian brothers and sisters, landed, immigrant, nation-born, First Nation, Arch-Linux-users, Metis, religious, non-religious, whatever denomination, Lemmy-user, Fediverse-user, corpo-Social-Media-user, straight, bi, none-sexual, LGBTQ++++, black, brown, white and every shade in-between.
We have our differences, we have our troubles, we have issues, good, bad and whatever ... but at the end of the day we will always be national brothers and sisters who inhabit this land.
My parents were survivors of the Residential School system but they always celebrated Canada Day never knowing the politics or history ... they just enjoyed having a fun day in the middle of summer. I've grown to learn lots of good and bad about Canada but in all that history, I may have grown negative and dark but at the same time, as I grow older, I also realize that we have to keep hope alive and always reach out to others, especially to any potential allies. We can create a country where we can all co-exist in a cooperative way that can be equally beneficial for every individual in this country. I will always hope for that.
So good day to you all!! Kitchi-Meegwetch Misiway (Thank you very much to everyone) Nee-nas-kah-moon! (I give my praises!)
The biggest takeaway for me with all this ... whenever there is another level of stupidity in American government or the president ... is not how dumb he looks .... but instead about how the entire country just passively accepts it. How the media just rolls over it like it's normal now.
Yeah right talking to their friends .... they're googling ... 'what is the survival rate of fractured spine' ... 'will I bleed out' ... 'can I trust a fireman?' ... 'is there life after death?' ... 'will I go to heaven?'
Canadians are great hockey players ... but no matter how good they are, they'll still cave in if they are offered a million dollar contract and throw the game
I was going to make fun of this thread by saying some dumb thing but then I noticed your comment ... this is your thread now ... my condolences to you and your family ... and you should clear coat that section of the wall to preserve it forever ... and if you ever renovate or change your house ... carefully carve out that section of wall, frame it and display it as a family heirloom.
I know plenty of millionaires ... people who own property, vehicles and wealth that all amount to one or two million ... and they are still just getting by. They aren't that terribly wealthy - they don't live with any more luxury than most people, they just have more things.
Billionaires on the other hand are something else ... it's like comparing someone with a weight problem and calling millionaires slightly pudgy and billionaires are grossly overweight behemoths that can affect the structure of your house.
Here's a visual comparison using grains of rice of what a millionaire and billionaire and the wealth of someone like Jeff Bezos is
Using Rice to Show How Rich Jeff Bezos Is | NowThis