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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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[-] Jarix@lemmy.world 1 points 22 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 21 hours 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 19 hours 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 19 hours 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.

[-] Jarix@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

I don't think you have that many middle-class friends, judging by your opinion here. I could be totally off base on that presumption but I don't understand how you can hold that view if you do. That would be my failing then.

Middle-class isn't a month vacation every year anywhere they want. It isn't even retiring early. It's not getting the best version of everything. It still comes with cares concerns worries stresses challenges and a host of other afflictions that can almost always be solved by more money, just like everyone who is not as well off as the middle class.

It's a certain amount of comfortable survival, enough to also do more than a few things just because you want to and you have the means, but it's not a place that has no view of a higher place, it's just not always having your feet in the muck. Water waiting to drown you with a higher tide than usual or a moment of loss of vigilance and diligence to do the things you MUST do just to keep your head above water

At least that's been what I've come to given my life's windings