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Billionaire CEO of Canada’s Shopify demands abolition of right to vote for broad sections of the population (www.wsws.org)
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Social media comments by Tobias Lütke, the right-wing CEO of the Canadian online shopping site Shopify, in which the multi-billionaire attacks universal suffrage have been met with outrage in Canada and internationally.

Lütke declared that voting rights should be stripped from those whom he termed “dependents”—based on their payment of income tax. This would disenfranchise wide swathes of workers on low wages, elderly pensioners, the unemployed, students and the infirm. These proposals were met with support from within the Canadian capitalist oligarchy and international financial elite, including from the fascist Elon Musk.

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[–] 54 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Not all sociopaths are billionaires, but all billionaires are sociopaths, and sociopaths should be afforded zero influence on the structure of society.

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  • [+] -7 points 1 month ago* (4 children)

    I mean, that's blatantly ableist, and I suspect misinformed. There's not a bad chance you have friends who are sociopathic. Here is an interview with a sociopathic person. Do you think this person deserves to be ostracized from society and have their basic rights taken away?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    "Influence on the structure of society" is a pretty nebulous concept, albeit one that very few people have any capacity to actually change - Im not really sure it would qualify as "Having basic rights taken away." Unless "basic rights" includes the ability to create a massive company that exploit human beings for profit.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    One requires the other. You can't prevent someone from participating in society without taking away most of their rights.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    Did the comment that sparked this specify that "they should have all their rights taken away?"

    All that was said is "maybe we shouldn't let them have massive influence on how society functions." I fail to see how that means anything but "dont give them power" (which frankly, should probably apply to a lot of people...humans kinda suck)

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago

    The sociopaths who don't feel the need to hurt people like these billionaires does will not actually be impacted all that much.

    If they don't act like hateful assholes then nobody will know and they won't be targeted, and they'll have nothing to fear, but if they do act like hateful assholes then they'll deserve the response.

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