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Canada’s Richest 1% Nearly As Wealthy As Poorest 80% (www.readthemaple.com)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/canada@lemmy.ca
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19% would be the complacent middle class 🤮

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[–] 18 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

How are you (OP) blaming the "middle" class? What could you suggest nurses, teachers, fire fighters, etc do to solve the problem of wealth inequality?

I genuinely want to know because it seems to me that we control nothing and have no excess to give.

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  • [+] -10 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Stop performing those services. En mass.

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    ...so let people die, stop caring for our neighbours, allow ignorance and illiteracy to fester. Seems extreme and misplaced.

    A better, less-nihilistic approach might be: stop buying things, cancel subscriptions, sell dividend-paying stocks, etc. Or even better: a general strike.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    Wait, what difference does it make whether the stocks pay dividends or not?

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    I suppose there isn't much.

    Dividends are free cash that the company distributes to shareholders whereas it ought to reward the workers imo. I see it as peak siphoning profit away from the working class to the "ruling" class (who don't contribute anything).

    Capital gains and the whole stock market are bad too. As is our tired, biased tax code.

    Jesus... a lot to fix.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    You get that they'll just de-professionalize those roles and let untrained, unskilled hacks and quacks loose on the general populace, right? I mean you want to have your kids taught by some goof quoting Grok, and your grandma getting her life saving treatment from Bobby Kennedy approved witch-doctors that's where you end up if the professionals all decide to quit En Masse.

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