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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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[–] 5 points 13 hours ago

This is an interesting one for me, because I've talked with Tobias before, 6 years ago now

I knew him from the SC2 scene, before he started a team. It wasn't too long after Shopify skyrocketed in value. Then he came off as a normal guy, rather than the right-winger who fights against democracy that he's become

I'm of the opinion many people who become billionaires, like Tobias, are corrupted by the money and power

A good person can't have billions of dollars without it completely warping them as a person

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