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1. tamimio · 1790201235 · focus · HN ↗

   This is a reminder to the naive people who think things are getting worse financially because covid/immigrants/gas/AI/supplychain/[insert BS reason], and not just the 1% greed. Things got bad and living wages are not enough substantially after covid at the same time when billionaires are getting exponentially richer, and all above excuses up there are only to distract the public from this simple fact: your life is getting worse because someone way wealthier is stealing your money, and unfortunately legally too because who writes and approves these legislation and laws is part of the game.

   1. method_capital · 1790201520 · focus · HN ↗

      Ok, I'll bite. How are the "wealthier ... stealing [our] money"? We don't have to use doordash or claude code or aws or amazon or anything else. We get to choose. When it comes to paying for government, however, I don't believe we're allowed to "opt out". Maybe Mamdani will give us stores so great we'll be forced to shop at them!

      1. watwut · 1790202318 · focus · HN ↗

         Wealthy choose the goverment amd most of its agenda. People dont get much choice and choosing from available options is framed as "support".

         1. method_capital · 1790202392 · focus · HN ↗

            Doordash - ie "the wealthy" - spent to prevent Mamdani from getting elected. They failed. What on earth are you complaining about again?

            1. thrance · 1790202949 · focus · HN ↗

               Mamdani is very much the exception that confirms the rule. And ever since he's been inaugurated, he's been turned into a boogeyman by the right, successively called a "communist", then an "islamist", and often both.

               And even in his own party, the dominant """moderate""" branch does everything it can to hide his success and popularity, from fear that the electorate would wake up to how utterly corrupt and ineffective the DMC is.

            2. jackb4040 · 1790204071 · focus · HN ↗

               You're insulting the intelligence of everyone on this website by even attempting this argument. The handful of upset elections by young socialists who want to decrease the political hegemony of billionaires does not amount to evidence that the political hegemony of billionaires isn't real.
            3. kelnos · 1790242145 · focus · HN ↗

               For every failure like that one, how many successes are there? Probably more than one.

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