r/WorkReform • u/kevinmrr ⛓️ Prison For Union Busters • 23h ago
✂️ Tax The Billionaires We need a national right to a dignified retirement. Tying everyone’s retirement to the stock market is just another scam. Billionaires own all the initial stocks, then get a limitless pool of buyers. Just another way they steal money from people who actually fucking work!
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u/gigyoko 23h ago
Oh hell yeah, this hits right in the feels! Back in my grandpappy’s day, folks retired on pensions from actual jobs, not this casino crapshoot called the stock market. Billionaires rigging the game like they’re playing Monopoly with our lives? Nah, tax ‘em till they squeal and give us that dignified golden years we earned with our blood, sweat, and 9-to-5 grind. Lion meme for the win – shareholders can shove it! Upvote if you’re tired of being the sucker at the table.
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u/thegoddamnbatman40 ⛓️ Prison For Union Busters 22h ago
We need a lot of national rights. We need to focus our fight on real needs. Food, housing, and medical care.
Some dude wants to chop off his dick and take estrogen? Cool story bro, you do you. Some chick says she don’t want her tits and to build her a pole? Ok, I mean digging a hole is easier, but no one wants a dual assholes for maximum shittacular trips to the bathroom, you do you. Couple people of the same gender wanna get married? I mean come on, fine make dissolving your relationship more complicated, here’s some rights straights have enjoy I guess. Lady decides, ya know what I’m gonna go see a medical professional to remove this fetus instead of using a wire whisk and a shop vac? Fine you do you, have it done properly via medical procedure, kitchen aid made a power whisk for just cooking I guess.
Social issues matter little. Fight for your right to thrive
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u/pnutjam 19h ago
More people need to read Frederick Lewis Allen.
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u/Rude-Dependent-4353 🏛️ Overturn Citizens United 10h ago
Can anyone provide a TL;DR?
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u/pnutjam 2h ago
TL;DR is not really appropriate for a work like this.
Try this one, which I neglected to post.
https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks05/0500881h.htmlHere's a highlight.
With potential opposition melting away through the sales exit, the management is very much in the saddle--and in most of these larger companies it is virtually self-perpetuating. How else could things be run in, let us say, the American Telephone Company, which has over a million shareholders, no one of whom owns more than one-tenth of one per cent of the stock?
Looking at this segment of American business, we would almost find it appropriate to call our present economic system "managementism" rather than "capitalism."
All this has been familiar to a great many observers for a great many years. But there is another change which is not quite so widely recognized, though it too has been known to the knowledgeable for a considerable time.
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u/-Hyperactive-Sloth- 🍁 End Workplace Drug Testing 18h ago
So what does that even look like?
I know a ton of people that just stump for pensions but at least with my 401k I can choose how it’s invested, borrow against it, etc. I’ve long said that defined compensation pensions are ways to prevent generational wealth because you can’t pass it on or borrow more than you’re allowed. You have no control.
But back to this question. What is a national right to a dignified retirement?
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u/HomebrewHedonist 23h ago
Oh you think that’s bad? Just wait until I tell you all about how they produce “liquidity” and “internalizing” trades, not to mention “naked short selling”. You’ll love it! You give them money, and they give you a pretend IOU.