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Ontario billionaire under fire for arguing poor people shouldn't be able to vote (www.blogto.com)

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It's Shopify's Tobi Lutke.

A reminder that he's behind Build Canada and Build Toronto, and that Build Toronto's Eric Lombardi is running for the Ontario Librral Party leadership as we speak.

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[-] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

The middle class already decides most elections because politicians target the middle class as a voting bloc.

This is why housing prices always seem to trend up: middle class wealth is concentrated in their family home.

This is also why there’s so much government funding for universities (public universities). The middle class disproportionately benefit from it. Taxes on working class people to pay for higher education that their own children don’t benefit from are regressive taxes. Basically a wealth transfer from the working class to the middle class.

[-] ProudCanadianCitizen@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

In Canad, there is no wealth transfer from the lower class to the middle class through taxes. The wealth transfer all occurs at the retail and rental sectors.

[-] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 1 points 10 minutes ago

I live in Canada. That’s not true. Higher education is heavily subsidized here, yet many of the paths (STEM majors at the top schools) are essentially closed for all but the most gifted of working class students.

Once you realize how skewed education is based on socioeconomic status, you see how little the working class benefit from having their tax dollars go to pay for higher education.

[-] Jarix@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

They may determine the outcome of elections, but they don't determine what outcomes the outcome chases. That's the lobbyists

[-] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

The outcomes are what favour them though.

People who have a good job, plenty of vacation days, 2 cars, own their own home, couple of kids, money saved for school and retirement… these folks are not all that upset about billionaires.

[-] Jarix@lemmy.world 1 points 9 minutes ago

They may be dumb, but they are also affected by housing prices, oil prices, service cuts, taxes raised. They still don't get politicians that do good for them, just like rest of the bottom 50%

They aren't better off because of who is elected even if you are accurate and they are the ones that determine the outcome of the elections. The elected politicians still don't persue the interests of the middle-class. The middleclass may simply be the most complacent because they are too afraid of becoming one of the Poors they seem to hate so much

Crabs in a goddamned bucket

[-] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 1 points 1 minute ago

That’s the thing though. Beyond a certain point, people don’t care that much about being “better off.” If they have it all, they have it all, and they’re content. I don’t think they’re afraid either. Fear is mostly the burden of the working class.