I agree. What’s the long plan on this accumulation of wealth?? It’s not like people wake up one day and say, hey, I wanna go live out on the streets, from here on out…They simply can’t afford to have a roof over their heads, & people act like its all because they don’t work hard enough or they are on drugs. Not true. Usually get on drugs after being down and out for so long to drown out the emptiness and suffering that has been overwhelming for them all. What do they want us all to do????? What’s the plan. Gates communities, everyone else roaming around the cities. It’s sickening to see these billionaires have no empathy.

Only if we allow it. It could get rough.

& yet they're admired & rewarded for actualizing the sickness of hoarding

Greed destroys everything.

Government should be afraid of the people not the people afraid of the government! Ladies you want to know why republicans struck down Roe vs Wade? Red States and republicans have been passing weakened laws for child labor. Letting kids do dangerous jobs for half the pay of adults and many have died. When public school is abolished and poor people can't pay for charter schools corporations will have all the cheap child labor they want! We will be a 3rd world country like China and countries in Africa and Asia. READ "Agenda 47" what they have planned is a nightmare for our children and grandchildren!

Donations to politicians needs to be banned. Also a publically funded fund needs to be set up for campaigns. I think political campaigns is something that tax money should be spend on. Also if tax money is spend like water during campaigns maybe it might raise a few eyebrows. Instead of it being overrich people who have more money than they know what to do with. A speech in the EU recently bashing US democracy said that there is a 2 billion dollar price ticket on the seat of president and I think that is very much true. You need to spend at least 2 billion to become president

Exactly. The USA is really a third world country the way politicians are allowed to be bought.

Then it is up to every patriotic American to work on getting those voters who vote for candidates that accept corporate funding Bernie Sanders showed us it can be done. By repeatedly saying Not me US. Showing us that it must begin at the local and state levels first. We have a blueprint on how to do it so let's stop clutching our pearls and begin organizing groups in all 50 states. I have a small group in my state.

@@Detrumpificator4377 Bernie? Really? You mean the guy who bailed on us not once, but TWICE after collecting tons of donations? And for no other reason than because his good 'buddy' Obama (the self proclaimed "moderate republican") asked (more like threatened) him to do so. Yeah.. Great model for standing up to these people.

@@MrMarinus18No public funds should be used, period.

We the people need money even more than government! The government needs to be the referee to ensure American prosperity lands in the hands of those who BUILT & DESERVE IT

Biden needs the house as well as the Senate he wants to stop all of corporation madness 😮

Republicans want to renew Trumps tax cuts at 1.8 BILLION more tax cuts for the rich and the 99% will have to pay more! Johnson is calling for a vote soon.

"For the people, by the people not at the expense of the people"! We need to demand as a country that huge companies, are split up and need to increase unions.

Blue has endless dumb catch phrases like this but they are all ill conceived and never explained.

Please do that! As a foreign citizen we would love if the rich folks move their business overseas!!!

They want non-rich slaves to do their work.

Exactly ​@@conniemcfalls4357

You want to stop them? Work somewhere else.

@@Silver-jv1us "Taylor is articulating the Patriotic Millionaires’ core message: a rigged economy is bad for everyone. The destabilizing effects of this rigging have left an entire nation feeling insecure and vulnerable. That insecurity often starts as malaise but morphs into something altogether unbearable as time goes on. Even as macroeconomic indicators show an indisputably rosy picture, it’s clear that workers themselves don’t feel like they’re experiencing economic boom times. On the contrary, they feel more squeezed than ever. We are beginning to see the status quo buckle under the combined pressure of crippling inequality and a fundamentally rigged economy. The effects are all around us: extreme politics are on the rise, xenophobic scapegoating is rampant, and our institutions are in a state of utter paralysis, incapable of meeting the moment (or worse, co-opted by oligarchs). But there is reason to be hopeful. The insecurity workers are experiencing - so incisively described by Taylor - has triggered an immune response in our body politic: organized labor is striking back." patrioticmillionaires.org/2023/08/24/economic-anxiety-and-the-labor-immune-response/

You should have lived in the Soviet Union during their reign of power and terror. You might have learned something about communism and human nature.

@@perlman7376 Grow up princess and get up off your knees.

Took the words out of my mouth

​@@perlman7376human nature ruins any system period. Capitalism isn't any better when the Uber wealthy are allowed to do whatever they want. The industrial revolution was under capitalism. They had people working 7 days a week 12 hours a day often for wages that only just covered a bare minimum of living expenses and under very dangerous working conditions. Unions and labor laws are necessary to keep ulra wealthy business owners in check in a capitalist environment.

@@olyokie How far did worshipping uncle joe and comrade reich get the US citizen? Trump believes in individual freedom as provided for by the US Constitution instead of creepy joe biden's "do as you are told or else" decree.

So it can be funneled into an ineffective, inefficient government never helping average people.

@@mmerkley402 probably , might trickle down when they pee on our heads . 🚿

@@mmerkley402 its better than going to grossly ineffective, and grossly inefficient private corporations of which you will see $0.00. Furthermore, did you enjoy turning on your tap this morning? did you drive on a road? safely? suddenly "ineffective" doesn't seem so ineffective.

​@@mmerkley402 How about that infrastructure bill that President Biden past. That is creating thousands of jobs and improving roads and bridges all across this country, removing lead pipes all across this country. Wouldn't it be great to spend more money on our environment. And just for the record.. The wealthiest got huge tax cuts and has been raking in billions in profits the last three years and what did they do, they raise the cost of their products and made the products SMALLER. They are literally price gouging the people, the small businesses, the family owned businesses. So tax them and if they continue to raise prices demand more pay, they are nothing without the people. Also raise the cap on Social Security. It's ridiculous the wealthy pay only one hundred and sixty thousand a year the same as the regular people, and then collect the highest amount Social Security pay out, when they don't even need Social Security. Don't you think the wealthiest and corporations has enough perks.

​@@grege5074all examples of things that barely work and getting worse.

That happened to me too.

That should be illegal. No employer should be allowed to even suggest employers not to join unions.

"unions just take a bunch of money from you and don't do anything for you" Some unions are or were like that. This may be some rationale for government regulation.

@@renanfelipedossantos5913 "No employer should be allowed to even suggest employers not to join unions." Think First Amendment here.

@@mjnyc8655Ask A real lawyer to explain it to you The first amendment protects you from The Government muzzling your right to speak it is not about your right not to have freedom of speech in the workplace... There are already numerous examples of things that you employer cannot ask you or tell you!

Perfectly stated perfect. THANKYOU. More people should be exposed to our Robert.

Dont forget Walmart.

And Tesla

I already do. Except Trader Joes. Haven't been to a Walmart either.

And all corporate media…….

I don’t shop at most of those, but what is your issue with them specifically? Did someone like Robert sell you some propaganda about them?

nationalize amazon

Been doing that for the past 8 years.

So difficult it would seem for so many though

Amazon sells the products of all smaller companies. It's a shipping service. Clean out the malls and stores of drug addicts and gangs and maybe people won't be afraid to go shopping in person.

I'd like to, but a boycott is really getting difficult by now. Amazon Tesla Nestle Oil every product from China, Russia or Italy because of their fascist governments. (yes, china calls itself communist, but it isn't. It is fascist by criteria of fascism.) Products from countries with the Sharia law. No tourism to Muslim dictatorship countries.

Some employers do just that, alas not all.

Maybe they weren’t hugged enough when they were growing up.

They want control and power.

@@mjnyc8655 A very small minority of them.

There are more people living in the Bay Area than the entire nation of Denmark. I can't think of a less relevant country.

@@leobigelow7021 what's your point?

@@mbjasniewski And what's yours as well?

@@mbjasniewski thank you for clarifying. I first joined a union as a lab tech and was actually a shop steward. Then, after grad school and moving to Europe, I was encouraged to join the union when I was first hired as an associate Prof. At that level, you are still represented by the unions in salary negotiations. As a full Prof you negotiate on your own but I remained a member and continue to be in retirement because I believe in the movement.

No we don't. I live in NC, and it hates unions

Should have done your own financial plan don’t rely on a union Union is just corrupt gangsters I hate unions so much

There's a hole in their souls. And, they are too stupid to realize throwing money and things thrown in there will never fill it.

We all need money to buy food and afford shelter. We now have that in America. Everyone has a cell phone. No one is denied health care. And no one is denied food. Why must everyone look at someone who has a Mercedes and want it taken away. This is all about envy.

@@mbjasniewski Go ask some Polish people what they thought of communism as opposed to how they live now.

​@@perlman7376Aren't women and doctors getting jailed in Republican-run states for having abortions which are a medical right? We're supposed to fear some authoritarian boogeyman that lives in your head when Republicans are doing their worst here at home?

In most communist countries, the government took control of what the mega-rich already and crushed ordinary people. We need capitalism but with effective unions, not communism.

Decades of propaganda and businesses disobeying the law, mostly.

Brainwashing from decades of anti-union messaging from the media and temporarily embarrassed millionaires. "that's socialism" "the unions haven't served their purpose in the 1950s" "joining a union will result in a loss of pay, due to union dues" As someone who works IT and has seen major labour abuses, I shake my head when my peers break out these unprompted chestnuts.

In places like NYC it's very difficult to join unions. You can't get a job without being in the union and you can't get in the union without a job. They don't make it easy.

To keep greedy owners from screwing over / taking advantage of their employees!

​@@michaelgreen5206they said "wouldn't"

Because YOU know better right?!?

@@nadominhoca At least I know we are stronger together, and that the union has our backs. What’s your problem?

I agree. What’s the long plan on this accumulation of wealth?? It’s not like people wake up one day and say, hey, I wanna go live out on the streets, from here on out…They simply can’t afford to have a roof over their heads, & people act like its all because they don’t work hard enough or they are on drugs. Not true. Usually get on drugs after being down and out for so long to drown out the emptiness and suffering that has been overwhelming for them all. What do they want us all to do????? What’s the plan. Gates communities, everyone else roaming around the cities. It’s sickening to see these billionaires have no empathy.

And of the players in the AI game there are two who are in the forefront named . . . . let me think.. . . oh yeh. . . . Musk and Bezos. "Amazon's AI Stores Seemed Too Magical. And They Were" per Bloomberg, April 3, 2024. Turns out some of these monied anti-unionists are hiring cheap labor outside the country when their AI doesn't work yet AI provides a smoke screen for hiring cheap labor.

There's a history of that. I don't know if there's any current unions for sales, but there used to be a few for travelling salesmen. There's precedent.

@toulousegoose1150 I hadn't even thought of that as a precedent! Thank you 🙂

...along with stock buybacks, lobbying and HUGE executive bonuses.

Unfortunately, Amazon provides a compassionate although imperfect service for disabled people or poor people in rural areas to bring them things they otherwise couldn't access so until there's something to replace Amazon service, boycotting won't work

Search for "Tesla Optimus Gen 2". Elon almost has his 24/7 robot workforce.

Machine repair and maintenance are viable professions.

AI and automation?

The term is violence

@@KenH60109 Violence, aren’t these the same peoples that complain about working 40 hours a week?

@@itsoktobehappy461 the fruits of that AI and automation hasn't been shared with the worker since 1971. Why would they start now?

@@AAjax Who said anything about sharing? If labor becomes difficult to work with, capitalists will replace them with technology if possible.

Yet another whiny boy who couldn't pass High School Civics....The constitution is not the sum of all law...You need to take the Remedial Course...Or ask a real Lawyer.... Simply no one dumber or more gullible than a Poor Conservative Republican....Send your last dollar to the Begging Billionaire!

Maybe

The rich won't need your dollars as a consumer if they already have all of it.