wodneswynn:

handstolearn:

wodneswynn:

jadefire02:

antifainternational:

fromacomrade:

Anitfascist:  *knocks over a trash can, rocks Dick Spencer’s dome one time*

Fascist: *drives a car through a crowd of people, commits a school shooting, blows up the Oklahoma City Federal Building, etc.*

Liberal:  these are the same!!!!

False equivalence.  See our essay about it from last August.

I’m pretty sure it’s the conservatives who believe Antifa and Fascism are the same.

Naw, friend, liberals do it just as much. It’s less insidious when conservatives do it because we expect it of them; liberals will pretend to be your best friend and then either claim all the credit for your success or be on the phone with the cops as soon as you do anything even vaguely direct.

*neoliberal

I said liberal and I meant liberal.

Thought: I do NOT think that 50% of the world’s billionaires should be women. I think there shouldn’t be any billionaires at all.

firedra6on:

fandomsandfeminism:

whenandwhereienter:

twodotsknowwhy:

fandomsandfeminism:

aflawedmind:

fandomsandfeminism:

caosdth:

fandomsandfeminism:

cardboardfacewoman:

So you are saying 0% of the world should be billionaires?

Yes.

Why shouldn’t their be billionaires? That makes no sense.

Because the existence of billionaires is predicated on the exploitation of human labor and unsustainable environmental harm.  That level of wealth hoarding is harmful to economies, as it reduces the amount of money in circulation. No one person, no family, could ever conceivably even SPEND a billion dollars anyway, and  it is inherently immoral to accumulate wealth so narrowly while so much of the world lives in abject poverty.  

Better then to create a wealth ceiling, a point at which all wealth over a certain point  is taxed at or very near 100% to incentivize people to actually spend their money rather than hoard it, stimulating the economy and bettering the lives of far more people. Better even still to create and regulate economic systems that protect workers and the environment in a way that such extreme levels of wealth accumulation aren’t even feasible. 

The problem with this is that it reduces the incentive to actually do fiscally well. What’s the point of starting a business if you can’t become wealthy?

There is a very real difference between “reasonably wealthy” and A BILLIONAIRE

No one is saying you shouldn’t have a nice house, we are saying that having multiple really, really ridiculously nice houses while your employees are either homeless or at serious risk of becoming homeless is immoral.

I’ll never understand why this concept is hard for people. I think it’s because they can’t actually fathom how much $1 Billion is.

Seriously.

Let’s say you have a badass job. A great job. You make $100 AN HOUR. You work 10 hours a day ($1000 A DAY), 5 days a week ($5000 a week!!!), every week ($20,000 A MONTH), thats $240,000 Every Year.

It would take you 4,167 years to make a billion dollars.

You could buy every expensive thing in the world 5 times over and still have millions of dollars. Billionaires shouldn’t exist when most of their employees are barely living.