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.
How do you forget that once you already know it? The man is the biggest charlatan since The Music Man.
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.
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.
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.
Yes all folk have the right to believe what they want UNLESS it harms other Folk or is an Unspeakable Crime
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.
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.
what the moses is this censorship "dOnT leT tHe ChIlDren SeE tHe WorD 'do' or 'ce' oR hEaveN fOrBid TheY BecoMe GaY"
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!
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.
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.
okay but unrelated that's the most badarse looking wheelchair I've ever seen
We are watching, and waiting, for the perfect moment… and then we revolt!
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.
no but that would be the funniest bugging c**p I've ever seen PLEASE
Correction: good things can happen when decent people with brains get organized
smh. sometimes I wonder how many brain cells some of those people have put together. anyone wanting to take a gander?
Yes! But also in all seriousness, I hate daylight savings time, it completely throws off my already wack circadian rhythm
Damn right he is, I need to work on expressing my emotions :/ thanks DAD
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.....
It’s not the religion, it’s people. Some religions actually are nice. Like an example, Hinduism, where you can believe in all the gods you want, and you can also not believe in gods. You just have to create more good than harm. You have to help people in the end. Not that bad. It’s not the religion, it’s extremest.
Load More Replies...Also, it shouldn't need to be pointed out, but Raphael Warnock is LITERALLY a reverend! You can't get more Christian than that.
Both Obama and Biden are pretty devout Christians but that didn't stop Republicans from calling Obama a muslim or making all sorts of claims about the White House lacking prayer etc. Meanwhile the man with several sexual assault accusations, who cheats on all of his 3 wives was somehow a messiah president.
Load More Replies...The truth is that American Christianity is not actually Christian and hasn't been for a long time. Do they follow the tenets that Christ laid down as rules for a good life? Like love thy neighbour as thyself, do unto others as you would have others do unto you, and the rest? Nope. They hate and they exclude and Jesus probably weeps looking down at how they've distorted his teachings to suit their prejudices. They've given Christianity a bad name all over the world. The hypocrisy is strong in these ones.
I am a Christian and unfortunately I agree with you. There are many Christian's who do their best to follow those core beliefs from the Bible, but many fail to do so. They give Christianity a bad name. But just as we accept anyone deemed by some to be unworthy into our church, we must also accept the Christians who make Christianity look bad. There's no picking and choosing who we let in the church and who we don't. I do not accept their behaviour and beliefs but we have to welcome all into the church, otherwise we are hypocrites. We are all sinners and fall short of the glory of God. Even the ones we might call "good christians". It's a frustrating battle, and I see kind, loving and giving people living out their lives humbly as a Christians as they're supposed to, but people not in Christian circles don't see that as much because it's not made public. It's all the loud, obnoxious opinionated, judgmental people who get all the attention and change the worlds opinion about us.
Load More Replies...This is why being a Christian is frowned upon. You do X but persecute those who do Y, not accepting you have done it as well and have no right to judge.
Yeah, but he was really good at football. He does really bring into question the educational standards of the University of Georgia though.
I’m convinced that Christianity has evolved into an excuse for bad behavior.
As far as I know, his behaviour is against Christian values. And I still don't get what one's religion do with politics.
Thank goodness, Warnock won! People came out early and in massive numbers! We voted at 7:30 am and voted Warnock. What I still don't understand, is why people voted for Kemp! His earliest commercial was about immigrants, and he said he'd drive them all back to the border himself ! While he stood by his pickup, with a shotgun!! Doesn't anyone remember these ads?? Racist and prejudiced in nature... he, is a fool that does what he is told to do.
For the Christians who say, "Not all Christians are like that!" - When more of them are than aren't, it's time for a schism. Start a new group that represents YOUR values. Call yourselves Nazarenes or something. If you don't share their values, but don't rebuke or reject their behavior completely, you are aiding and abetting their actions. And your avowed values are diminished and soiled by them.
I do speak out against them. But they are loud and get media coverage. I do not. Christian means "little Christ". It literally means we should be like Jesus Christ. And that name means a lot to me. It reminds me not to lose sight of why I chose to be a Christian. I don't really want to give it over to a bunch of selfish a******s. Many Christians are getting so caught up in their rules and traditions they completely have lost sight of what being a Christian is. They are destroying what they claim to be their purpose. It's aggravating and I hate it. And it's not necessarily most Christian's that are bad, it's just the loudest ones. It becomes a complicated battle when a portion of your church are judgmental idiots and the rest are lovely people. There's no way to separate that group. It's not as simple as you are saying.
Load More Replies...Clearly, a lot of people in Georgia feel this person represents them really well- or they wouödn't vote for him. I don't know much about Georgia, so I can't say if it is a deeply immoral and bigotted state or not.
It is both. They voted for the football player because they know or knew him and just couldn't and understand how he'd make a poor senator! " boys will be boys" the glory football star of Ga. Even though he lives in Texas, there are less white people in Ga. Than any number of other races, the good ole white boy standard still exists, and women need to understand even their bodies do not belong to them! It is awful!! For the good of the people.. escapes some people.
Load More Replies...Christians confuse me, no offense to any of you Christians out there, unless you choose to take offense then that’s not my problem
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??
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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I'm a little puzzled by the title of this -- if you read the memes, they're beating up on 1)Christians, 2)white people (guys, predominantly) and 3) anyone who might agree with Republicans. How does this mean "insanely rich people??"
Someone didn't read the definition of "Billionaire" very closely, nor check the latest list of world's wealthiest.
Load More Replies...🎶Old Scroogey loves his money 'cause he thinks it gives him power/If he became a flavour you can bet it would be sour. There goes Mr Skinflint, there goes Mr Greed/The undisputed master of the underhanded deed. He charges folks a fortune for his dark and draughty houses/Us poor folk live in misery/It's even worse for mouses! There goes Mr Heartless, there goes Mr Cruel/He never gives, he only takes, he lets his hunger rule/If being mean's a way of life you practise and rehearse, then all that work is paying off - 'cause Scrooge is getting worse!🎶
Dickens knew what was going on. Unions pulled us out of this but now we're heading back into it.
Load More Replies...Sorry, rest of the world. This was obviously another “what’s wrong with America” post lol
It's a what's wrong with capitalism post
Load More Replies...Whoever collected these tweets has an obvious bias. Just an observation...
A word about Dickens who wrote good books. He also gave his wife TEN children and blamed her because she didn't prevent pregnancy. Because of having given birth to TEN children sex with her was no longer satisfying. He kicked her out and wouldn't ket her see her children. While he had a long affair with a young famous actress of his time. His sad story of the blacking factory distorted the fact that he was enraged that he, with his brilliance etc. was forced into such a place. How dare they! He wasn't one of the filthy poor! The man had an enormous ego, was utterly selfish and revelled in his fame. I'm an English lit major with two degrees in my subject. He wrote well but Dickens was not a Saint just because he wrote stories about the poor. Look it up.
(I majored in Literature too!) It's one of life's depressing truths that the people who make it to the top are very often insufferable egomaniacs who treat other people like dirt. It's *why* they make it to the top, as often as not, and I've seen it happen more times than I can count. :(
Load More Replies...Down with Capital for the Working Folk, the Brain-washed Soldier the Young child, the Student, and the Intellectuals!
Thanks for this, sorry about what I replied earlier. FYI, @ing someone doesn't alert them, and people are down voting you because it seems like spam. I'd delete the comments to avoid being banned or suspended if I were you
Load More Replies...I'm a little puzzled by the title of this -- if you read the memes, they're beating up on 1)Christians, 2)white people (guys, predominantly) and 3) anyone who might agree with Republicans. How does this mean "insanely rich people??"
Someone didn't read the definition of "Billionaire" very closely, nor check the latest list of world's wealthiest.
Load More Replies...🎶Old Scroogey loves his money 'cause he thinks it gives him power/If he became a flavour you can bet it would be sour. There goes Mr Skinflint, there goes Mr Greed/The undisputed master of the underhanded deed. He charges folks a fortune for his dark and draughty houses/Us poor folk live in misery/It's even worse for mouses! There goes Mr Heartless, there goes Mr Cruel/He never gives, he only takes, he lets his hunger rule/If being mean's a way of life you practise and rehearse, then all that work is paying off - 'cause Scrooge is getting worse!🎶
Dickens knew what was going on. Unions pulled us out of this but now we're heading back into it.
Load More Replies...Sorry, rest of the world. This was obviously another “what’s wrong with America” post lol
It's a what's wrong with capitalism post
Load More Replies...Whoever collected these tweets has an obvious bias. Just an observation...
A word about Dickens who wrote good books. He also gave his wife TEN children and blamed her because she didn't prevent pregnancy. Because of having given birth to TEN children sex with her was no longer satisfying. He kicked her out and wouldn't ket her see her children. While he had a long affair with a young famous actress of his time. His sad story of the blacking factory distorted the fact that he was enraged that he, with his brilliance etc. was forced into such a place. How dare they! He wasn't one of the filthy poor! The man had an enormous ego, was utterly selfish and revelled in his fame. I'm an English lit major with two degrees in my subject. He wrote well but Dickens was not a Saint just because he wrote stories about the poor. Look it up.
(I majored in Literature too!) It's one of life's depressing truths that the people who make it to the top are very often insufferable egomaniacs who treat other people like dirt. It's *why* they make it to the top, as often as not, and I've seen it happen more times than I can count. :(
Load More Replies...Down with Capital for the Working Folk, the Brain-washed Soldier the Young child, the Student, and the Intellectuals!
Thanks for this, sorry about what I replied earlier. FYI, @ing someone doesn't alert them, and people are down voting you because it seems like spam. I'd delete the comments to avoid being banned or suspended if I were you
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