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Washington Post Says Be Nicer to Billionaires

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Washington Post Says Be Nicer to Billionaires

The billionaire-owned publication runs a puff piece suggesting the mega-rich are misunderstood and deserve more empathy.

Peter Daou
Jan 31, 2022
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Washington Post Says Be Nicer to Billionaires

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Let me start by stating the obvious: Billionaires shouldn’t exist.

No individual should be able to wake up each day hoarding the resources to end hunger and homelessness. No individual should pocket more in a day than most people can earn in ten lifetimes. No individual should get to play astronaut with their spare change as children starve. No individual should be able to game the system and exploit workers to amass obscene wealth. And no individual should be able to double that obscene wealth in a pandemic while the vast majority of people suffer.

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The world's 10 richest men have gotten 2x richer during the pandemic, while 99% of humanity got poorer. @Oxfam found: ▪️ Elon Musk, who paid no federal taxes in 2018, got 1,000% richer ▪️ Total billionaire gains were $5 trillion, enough to pay for the whole world to get vaccines
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Elon Musk alone could completely eradicate global hunger with using just 2% of his wealth. Yet he chooses not to. #PoorPeoplesCampaign
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3:08 PM ∙ Jan 27, 2022
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Peter Daou @peterdaou
US billionaires amassed enough wealth this WEEK to give every homeless person in America $100,000.
1:30 AM ∙ Oct 27, 2021
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But don’t complain about obscene wealth to the corporate media, purveyors of capitalism. They’re busy doing PR for the super-rich.

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The Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post runs a puff piece on billionaire Leon Cooperman:

“I’m a great believer in capitalism,” he said. “We have the best economic system in the world.” “How do you become wealthy?” he asked. “You develop a product or a service that people want. The world is better off for a Larry Ellison, a Bill Gates. Look at the jobs they created. Look at the good they did for the world. The attack on wealthy people makes no sense to me.”

“What made America great is our system of capitalism, incentivizing work and effort and ingenuity,” he’d written. “Capitalism has flaws, but socialism has no benefits. Why not spread my work ethic instead of just my wealth?”

The WaPo story goes on to quote Cooperman speaking to a group of low-income college students:

“Believe it or not, I have a great deal of commonality with all of you … It’s gotten harder. But the 99 percent can still join the 1 percent. It’s possible with enough luck and commitment.”

“I can speak to the issues of both being rich and being poor,” he told them, and as a billionaire in the bifurcating American economy, there was one truth of which he felt certain.

“Being rich is better,” he said.

“Being rich is better,” says the billionaire.

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This is why we keep going...✊🏻 #EatTheRich #KrogerCEOsTasteLikeChicken businessinsider.com/1-in-7-kroger-…
businessinsider.comKroger workers experienced hunger, homelessness, and couldn’t pay their rent in 2021. Its CEO made $22 million the previous year.The median worker pay at Kroger was $24,617 in 2021, researchers found, meaning the CEO made 909 times the pay of the average worker.
3:26 PM ∙ Jan 23, 2022
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25 hedge fund managers make more than every kindergarten teacher in America combined, 500 CEOs make 350 times more than the average worker, 740 billionaires became $2.1 trillion during the pandemic and they tell us the problem is the dude at Chipotle who got a 50 cent raise. BS.
10:35 PM ∙ Jan 29, 2022
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@GunnelsWarren ...while Bezos and Musk took $100M+ 11=minute joyrides into space that spewed more carbon into the atmosphere than a billion of the planet's poorest emit in a lifetime.
gizmodo.comJeff Bezos’ Space Joyride Emitted a Lifetime’s Worth of Carbon PollutionA new report chronicles the staggeringly unequal distribution of carbon emissions tied to the ultra-wealthy’s lifestyles.
12:47 AM ∙ Jan 31, 2022
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Nancy Pelosi comfortably sitting in her mansion eating ice cream while her constituents die and work themselves into exhaustion for poverty wages. Goddam am I ready for a fucking revolution! #EatTheRich
11:45 AM ∙ Jan 21, 2022
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@pravikashkumar @kary_cee @katea76 @MickleOnion @philYoung17 Billionaires cannot exist without exploitation. Musk and his family blood mines, I don't even need to explain Bezos... No. Billionaires should not exist. Tax them the fuck into oblivion.
11:32 AM ∙ Jan 31, 2022
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“During the pandemic, 3/4 of workers said it was very or somewhat difficult to make ends meet, 40% said they couldn’t come up with $400 in the event of an emergency and around 20% said they went hungry because they couldn’t afford enough to eat.” nbcnews.com/health/health-…
2:43 AM ∙ Jan 18, 2022
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If you worked a job 24/7/365 for a $1000 an hour, it would still take about 124 YEARS to accumulate a billion dollars. No human being in Earth’s history has ever worked long or hard enough to justify “earning” a billion dollars. It’s literally physically impossible #EatTheRich
10:30 PM ∙ Jan 16, 2022
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