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Billionaire people shouldn't be able to vote.
They have power through capital already, they don't need more.
this post was submitted on 28 Jul 2026
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It used to be that only property owners could vote. The laws all favoured the property owners.
Why is everyone that has worked on Ruby on Rails a total and utter douchebag? should be studied how that one project seems to have spawned some of the biggest bigoted asshole douches in the tech industry.
Lutke is a moron just like DHH is a moron and surprise surprise they're both from RoR.
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Maybe naming projects based on expensive pebbles attracts people with an affinity for signs of wealth?
"Poors under fire for thinking that killing billionaires should be legal".
I do understand the frustration with the fact that people who are working have less time to be politically active than retirees, but I don't really see any way around it. The flip side is that a lot of great volunteers retire into community service and have a lot of extra time to help the community because they no longer work.
Doing political things, like attending town hall meetings or party fundraisers, could count for tax rebates like donations do, and a certain amount of days off work each year could be required to be available for such things.
Election days could be national holidays, and local election days local holidays.
If being poor or being required to work is really that much of an issue, I'm sure a billionaire could afford 60k UBI for ten thousand people.
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This is the same company that simps for PP and MAGA
under fire
Oh?
figuratively
Oh.
Every single billionaire admits they've been lucky. They aren't special, they're just lucky to have more than their fair share.
That's not my experience. I've only ever heard them claim that they worked hard to get what they have. Admitting that luck was involved would mean they don't deserve to be that wealthy, and they would never admit that.
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He should be on fire, not "under fire".
Assuming Tobi Lutke makes at least 8% roi on his investments, he could give every homeless person in canada 20grand a year using just the interest.
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Better idea - only the middle class can vote.
The middle class already decides most elections because politicians target the middle class as a voting bloc.
This is why housing prices always seem to trend up: middle class wealth is concentrated in their family home.
This is also why there’s so much government funding for universities (public universities). The middle class disproportionately benefit from it. Taxes on working class people to pay for higher education that their own children don’t benefit from are regressive taxes. Basically a wealth transfer from the working class to the middle class.
They may determine the outcome of elections, but they don't determine what outcomes the outcome chases. That's the lobbyists
The outcomes are what favour them though.
People who have a good job, plenty of vacation days, 2 cars, own their own home, couple of kids, money saved for school and retirement… these folks are not all that upset about billionaires.
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They keep talking like that and “the poors” might have to do something about it. There’s a historical precedent. At the end of the day there a lot more of us than there will ever be of them.
Classism is usually brought up as a word when identity politics writers want to pay lip service to it. But this is classism.
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