• @ExtremeDullard
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    286 days ago

    The diagram is missing “Tax evasion”.

    Or is it part of the “How the rich stay rich” diagram?

    • @grue@lemmy.world
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      246 days ago

      Taxes exist for public benefit, so tax evasion easily fits in the “merciless exploitation of the working class” category.

      • @ExtremeDullard
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        46 days ago

        Not to nitpick, but tax evasion hurts everybody, not just the working class.

          • @ExtremeDullard
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            16 days ago

            State pension plans, disability benefits, education… Those are things that concern people who aren’t working class, that the state can provide less of, and that working people have to contribute more heavily to, because the rich don’t.

            Ergo, everybody is impacted when the rich don’t contribute to the society they are part of.

            • @zbyte64@awful.systems
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              76 days ago

              All those services are what Mr Money Bags wants privatized so they can profit from providing those services. That’s why you hear this talk about social security - the incoming administration wants it privatized.

              You’re thinking like a human, the rich are thinking like a class above the rest of the humans. Yes it’s dumb, but here we are cooking our planet at an ever increasing rate.

    • @astropenguin5@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      Honestly I’d say that is both a part of how the rich stay rich, and also can be classed under exploiting the working class because they don’t pay their share and so all the burden falls on the working class, and then we get worse public infrastructure which hurts primarily the working class.

      Oh and then the also exploit that public infrastructure for profit while not paying their taxes for it