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This refers principally to the Tech Giants and the people who run them
I've remarked how the bilionaires ought to be taxed, their power held in check, but it fell on deaf ears.
"No...leave the poor billionaire class alone! Don't tax them anymore than you have to! They're picked on as it is! Those poor guys! Woe is them!", said the Republicans in these forums.
In fact many of you thought it an even better idea to lower their taxes more, enrich them further and make these cuts permanent.
But now these billionaries running companies such as Facebook (Mark Zuckerberg), Jeff Bezos(Amazon), Tim Cook(Apple), Jack Dorsey(Twitter), Bill Gates (Microsoft) and Sergey Brin (Google) have lately flexed their muscles & decided to shut down the President of the United States on Twitter. In addition their big Tech Consortium also shut down Parler, the tech mouthpiece of Conservatives andthe alt-Right. So in effect, the Whiz kid billionaires now have the power to muzzle the Right/alt-Right.
Is this the future you wanted, Cons?
Having your lives, what you read & have access to dictated by these Democratic billionaire supporters? Because that's what undertaxing the rich & entrenching a billionaire class has created. a group so powerful that they can run society and own your politicians. Put the President of the United States on his knees. Shut down the compettion. They've essentially flattened the Republican Party and their alt-right supporters.
With excessive concentration of wealth comes excessive power. And you know what they say, power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Worse yet, now it's difficult to dislodge these people and limit their power, because you supported the conditions which enabled them tor rise and stay there.
You know what they say, be careful what you wish for, because you might just get it.
...but it won't necessarily be what you envisioned.
Conservatives won't be running the show. It'll be these prog neoliberal types.
I've remarked how the bilionaires ought to be taxed, their power held in check, but it fell on deaf ears.
"No...leave the poor billionaire class alone! Don't tax them anymore than you have to! They're picked on as it is! Those poor guys! Woe is them!", said the Republicans in these forums.
In fact many of you thought it an even better idea to lower their taxes more, enrich them further and make these cuts permanent.
But now these billionaries running companies such as Facebook (Mark Zuckerberg), Jeff Bezos(Amazon), Tim Cook(Apple), Jack Dorsey(Twitter), Bill Gates (Microsoft) and Sergey Brin (Google) have lately flexed their muscles & decided to shut down the President of the United States on Twitter. In addition their big Tech Consortium also shut down Parler, the tech mouthpiece of Conservatives andthe alt-Right. So in effect, the Whiz kid billionaires now have the power to muzzle the Right/alt-Right.
Is this the future you wanted, Cons?
Having your lives, what you read & have access to dictated by these Democratic billionaire supporters? Because that's what undertaxing the rich & entrenching a billionaire class has created. a group so powerful that they can run society and own your politicians. Put the President of the United States on his knees. Shut down the compettion. They've essentially flattened the Republican Party and their alt-right supporters.
With excessive concentration of wealth comes excessive power. And you know what they say, power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Worse yet, now it's difficult to dislodge these people and limit their power, because you supported the conditions which enabled them tor rise and stay there.
You know what they say, be careful what you wish for, because you might just get it.
...but it won't necessarily be what you envisioned.
Conservatives won't be running the show. It'll be these prog neoliberal types.
A long-awaited report from top Democratic congressional lawmakers about the dominance of the four biggest tech giants had a clear message on Tuesday: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google engage in a range of anti-competitive behavior, and US antitrust laws need an overhaul to allow for more competition in the US internet economy.
“To put it simply, companies that once were scrappy, underdog startups that challenged the status quo have become the kinds of monopolies we last saw in the era of oil barons and railroad tycoons,” the report’s introduction states.
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