tiktok users are making videos on... class conciousness?!!

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• NeedyPlatter@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Ya know, I’ve always assumed that being a billionaire was an extremely rare. Up until now, I assumed that there are around 10-15 on the entire planet… but 2,000? What the actual fuck.

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  • atro_city@fedia.io ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    1% own more wealth than 95% of humanity. There are more than 2k for sure. About 1% of 8M = 80k

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    • bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There are now over 3,000 known billionaires in the world, and about 30,000 people with more than $100,000,000. The “game” is broken which means countless poor people are dying miserably.

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  • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I remember reading that, globally, there are closer to 4700 billionaires. Europe has lots of old families with inherited wealth that get split between handfuls of families. Africa and India have huge markets that the West ignores and have made at least a dozen billionaires.

    Billionaires are pervasive, like mold that grows in the fridge if left unchecked.

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  • crusa187@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You won’t believe how many of them were minted just since 2008. Rampant criminals.

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    • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Gee I wonder why that year /s

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  • Carmakazi@piefed.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Still very very rare compared to the 8,000,000,000 people on the planet, or whatever the number is at now.

    Of course one is too many yadda yadda

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• foo@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Another reason they choose to demonise immigrants is because they can spin rhetoric that energises the working and middle classes together, like a 2-for-1 deal.

  They convince the working classes that immigrants are stealing their jobs and abusing benefits. They convince the middle classes that immigrants cause more crime.

  They have influence over social media algorithms to ensure that each demographic gets the message that most infuriates them.

  Finally, with all the hate stirred up, their chosen political allies/pets can make a promise to crack down on immigration and gain the votes for both demographics in one go.

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  • yucandu@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    But they do use desperate immigrants from poor countries to suppress wages, since their precarious situation makes them more easy to exploit and less likely to demand things like labor regulations or unions.

    Then they use accusations of racism or “hating immigrants” to distract from the practice.

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• atro_city@fedia.io ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Perfect for !twnw

  We need to tax the wealth of these billionaires (and I think there's even one trillionaire) back to a normal level of "rich".

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• Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Of course they are, my fyp is full of it

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  • SuluBeddu@feddit.it ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Me too, far more than on other platforms

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• passepartout@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  inb4 being shadowbanned

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  • Battle_Masker@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Shadowbanned nothing. Tiktok’s new owners are gonna full on ban them

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