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Maine Senate Candidate Graham Platner Says 'Nobody Works Hard Enough to Justify $1 Billion' | Common Dreams
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He's not wrong.
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These greedy fuckers won't even loose anything if they payed their workers a healthy wage, but they just want to hoard their wealth for whatever reason. Don't the realize society is more productive when people can afford to live?
It's not about money as much as it's about the power they can buy with it. When they look outside they only see an ocean of slaves to their wealth. People not being able to afford to live doesn't really concern them. They are trying their hardest to replace people with machines so they control all the wealth and the means of production leaving the mass populous helpless in perpetual destitute.
These greedy fuckers won’t even loose anything if they payed their workers a healthy wage
They might cry havoc and loose the dogs of war, in an effort to suppress wages
Are we talking about people with $1B in the bank, or people “worth $1B” though?
If you got rid of the stock market today, forgave all loans and capped property values, it would be interesting to see who is actually rich.
You have a good point, most of these billionaires have most of their wealth tied up in loans, stock market and property. Their wealth is calculated speculation on the value of their assets not in physical dollars.
It’s not even speculation on the value of their assets; in most cases, it’s speculation on the value of their speculation on someone else’s revenue growing power.
If you got rid of the stock market today
If only.
Mark Zandi, the chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, has calculated that Americans have $1.8 trillion in excess savings. Of that, he believes that more than half sits in households in the top 10 percent of the income.
There are
10 million (10,000,000) hundred thousands in a trillion, for people to make 100k a year and when these people make that much they will put it back into the economy making those billionaires more money.
Imagine 1 trillion…
What's the difference between a billion and a trillion?
About a trillion.
Well he already has a half trillion. So it would be 1.5 trillion.
The whole tattoo scandal might have ended up being a plus, it came to light too late to replace him so now he has to lean in hard or his chances are entirely gone.
too late to replace him
United States Senate election in Maine, 2026
- Filing deadline: March 15, 2026
- Primary: June 9, 2026
- General: November 3, 2026
We don't even have the full list of candidates he's running against yet (assuming he stays in).
Well how am I supposed to build my $500 million yacht so I can dicksize with the other big dogs? /s