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At least since the French Revolution, equality has served as one of the leading ideals of society, yet the further we get into human history, the less likely it feels that we’ll ever get to its truest form. And yet people keep fighting, keep searching for a means of achieving it for the 98% of the population. 

The first step—call out the ridiculousness that the privileged are pushing as the norm. The Facebook group called “The Other 98%” has been trying to do just that with their informative yet witty memes and posts. Bored Panda has previously covered the good work they do, so if you’re interested in reading more about that, please click here

But today, dear reader, we’ve got you some more hilarious remarks on the current state of affairs shared by people sitting in the same boat as the rest of us, whilst the millionaires laugh at their tax write-offs. As you scroll through, please upvote your favorites and leave your opinions in the comments below. Now let’s dive straight into it! 

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Class conflict, also referred to as class struggle and class warfare, is the political tension and economic friction that exists between the rich and the poor. In the political and economic philosophies of Karl Marx and Mikhail Bakunin, class struggle is a central point and a practical means for effecting radical socio-political changes for the social majority, known as the working class.

Mike Savage noted back in 2016 that economic shifts started to pose challenges to understanding how social classes are changing more broadly. The shifts—especially the wealthy elites pulling away from the majority of middle- and low-income earners—seem to be shaping world events. There is a strong anti-elite feeling across developed nations, and it’s not difficult to see why. 

Before we dive further into these topics, we must touch upon a very important aspect of the current world, and that is the trade war. According to Investopedia, a trade war happens when one country retaliates against another by raising import tariffs or placing other restrictions on the other country’s imports.

Despite Donald Trump’s claim that “trade wars are good, and easy to win,” neoliberal economists generally believe that it is a poor policy choice, as they restrict, rather than liberalize, trade. As argued by Ka Zeng and Wei Liang, the effect of trade wars is uneven and complex. 

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And the rest of America is still convinced that they live in a country with “FreEDoM fOr alL”. Come on yall, wake up. Congress ain’t doing s**t, and everybody is still following them like dogs.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How do you forget that once you already know it? The man is the biggest charlatan since The Music Man.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And yet everytime corporations lose a dollar of profits, they fire 1000 people. Why doesn't anyone talk about the millions that the corporations saved by cutting back on office space, by not having to provide everyone a desk anymore or a phone, and having the employee now pay for their own electricity and internet so we can work. We could all get our phone, internet and part of our electric bills paid and they would still be saving hundreds of thousands.

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New trade barriers imposed by the initiator of trade wars will protect or even create jobs in specific industries, but other related downstream sectors will lose due to the higher costs associated with their imported parts and intermediate goods. In addition to creating winners and losers at the domestic level, trade wars will also have an impact on the rest of the countries that are not directly involved in them.

What is it that drives class wars? A common answer is taxation and a seeming lack of fairness. Polls show that most voters across the political spectrum support higher taxes on the rich, with about 80% of Americans saying they are frustrated that very wealthy people and corporations don’t seem to be paying their fair share of taxes, according to the Pew Research Center.

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And yet, for whatever reason, it seems like an impossibility. A lot of the wealth that we are talking about is in the form of private business wealth, and therefore, there’s not a readily available market value for this form of wealth on which a wealth tax might be based. 

Dirk Krueger—Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences and professor of economics—argues that if you then impose a wealth tax on this form of wealth, the owners of these businesses might take all kinds of actions to artificially lower the value of this form of wealth.

Furthermore, Jim Powell argued that class warfare is a mortal enemy of economic growth and jobs. At the very least, class warfare means “progressive” taxation—higher tax rates on investors and entrepreneurs, eventually reaching confiscatory levels. 

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This should be at the f*****g top. I am sad to say i had to look up what a partisan is. The school system is teaching the wrong things.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes all folk have the right to believe what they want UNLESS it harms other Folk or is an Unspeakable Crime

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Whatever tax revenue is realized means less money available for private employers to hire people and less money for consumers to buy things. He continues to say that pay is a matter of supply and demand, meaning that whilst progressive taxation can make the rich poorer, it makes the poor poorer, too. 

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So what should be focused on? The first priority should be to ensure that taxes are indeed raised to finance the infrastructure spending plans and to maximize the share of spending that is in fact an investment into infrastructure for the future. “The biggest potential injustice I see is leaving our kids with a rotten, overheated planet and a lot of government debt to pay for the spending programs discussed now,” discussed experts on Penn Today

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

what the moses is this censorship "dOnT leT tHe ChIlDren SeE tHe WorD 'do' or 'ce' oR hEaveN fOrBid TheY BecoMe GaY"

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It seems like we’re all in this together, and yet we’re very much apart. If taxing the rich is not the way forward, then what is, as people that are living paycheck to paycheck have very little to grasp onto. I suppose another revolution is inevitable one day or another, but we shall have to live forth to see it. 

Dear readers, as you continue scrolling through this list, make sure you’re upvoting your favorites and leaving your opinions in the comments below. I wish you the best of luck in this chaotic world in which we live and a very Merry Christmas! 

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

why would people still buying from Amazon lmao support your local shop

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Seriously, how else do people think we got a 40 hour, as opposed to 80 hour work week? Hint, the anwser doesn't rhythm with Jeebus Crispies

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm starting to become nervous for my son, but I also know he has me and everyone in this family, and we won't ever let him feel as if he's alone. At the very least, he will have that love from us.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A man who barely knows how to write his own name, who "opposes" abortion, but paid for multiple abortions for women he was not married to.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm old enough to remember when Newt Gingrich, a man who cheated on multiple wives, went after Bill Clinton. I have yet to see the apex of Republican hypocrisy.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

billionaires, don't have empathy...it's why they are billionaires. More likely, he doesn't understand the hate.....

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Dustin Hoffman playing Tootsie was brilliant and was actually a step towards gender equality. More men should go into the world in drag, experience life with boobies for a bit.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

smh. sometimes I wonder how many brain cells some of those people have put together. anyone wanting to take a gander?

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes! But also in all seriousness, I hate daylight savings time, it completely throws off my already wack circadian rhythm

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Amen. And all those women who sacrificed to get those rights in the first place are watching all their hard work go down in flames

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, I'll get downvoted for this, but religion is for those who can't regulate their own morality. Someone has to tell them right from wrong and a lot of the time, they only follow those tenets that suit them.....

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What these loons didn't figure is that Dump was never about "the cause", he was about himself. Hope these guys ruminate on that, while they rot in prison.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Christians confuse me, no offense to any of you Christians out there, unless you choose to take offense then that’s not my problem

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But who picks up the bill??? Taxes? None of the above paid enough so surely that comes out of the pocket of the working man??

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

what the heck? I just looked up the $8 thing and I'm amazed. wasn't verification supposed to DETER spam bots or impersonators? now I could get verified and I've never even BEEN on twitter much less amassed a group of people who agree with what I say or anything

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It’s disgusting people even have to have a plan for this, some people are awful

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