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[–] 101 points 4 months ago (1 child)

I'm homeless. I have a PhD and I guarantee I've contributed more to society than this fat cat.

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  • [–] 75 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Looks like an evil muppet.

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  • [–] 61 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Baron Harkonnen over here.

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  • [–] 61 points 4 months ago (1 child)
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    [–] 49 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    Why are all rich parasites so gross looking? He looks like a bloated tick.

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    [–] 34 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    A very, "in the coming collapse we will target you and your entire class. Only then will you feel a quarter of the oppression you've dealt to the entire world. There will be no escape." to all billionaires.

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  • [–] 34 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    The most recent estimates of unhoused people in the United States is 771,000 (https://www.security.org/resources/homeless-statistics/). At $8.13 per day, that works out to 2.3 billion dollars per year. Since he is too stupid to do math, I’m not sure he is aware of how much it would actually cost him for his plan.

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  • [–] 45 points 4 months ago

    We’re spending about that much per day right now pissing away western hegemony in Iran. pity, that money could do so much more good as UBI.

    In fact, I’d argue we should increase federal income taxes on the billionaires to 80%, then use the proceeds to give every US citizen free healthcare, and outlaw homelessness by building public housing to place them in if someone needs/wants it.

    If billionaires such as this guy don’t like that, I’m sure the good people of Uganda would gladly take them in considering the great value they add to a society.

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  • [–] 31 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    The most heinous part is he would ABSOLUTELY not even pay the $8.13 a day. He'd rage and fight it in court for several thousand times what it would cost to just pay it.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    The problem there is that getting him to pay would set an example. Billionaires can't be seen to be coerced by the state into doing anything. That would show they are not untouchable, and would probably destroy the apathy from the general public which keeps them in power.

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    [–] 24 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    If he's ready to give the homeless $240 a month, he can go do so and it would actually help them quite a lot.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    He wouldn't even pay them once they moved to Uganda.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago

    If you consider the US relationship to Uganda, its very possible he'd pay them to function as mercenaries for the repression of Ugandan locals and the extraction of their domestic resources via compulsed and trafficked labor.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    Gotta charge them back for transit, fuel, productivity time lost and discrepancies in projected profits. Looks like once in Uganda they owe $4.39 per day for ten years at which point they'll start to look into paying towards that daily $8.13. Unadjusted for inflation of course.

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  • [–] 24 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

    Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

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  • [–] 22 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I vote we send the billionaires to live on $8.13 a day.

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    [–] 21 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    How about he go live there instead.

    Also just, beyond the cruelty of it all, imagine being down on your luck and between homes and jobs and now you're shipped to the other side of the world (where you may face death for your sexual orientation) and now what might have been temporary for you, a rough period of living in your car or on the street before you get back on your feet, is now the rest of your life spent desperately trying to get back home.

    I was housing unstable in college and had to sleep in my car a few times. I took that pain in order to become an engineer rather than dropping out and entering the workforce. A friend took a harder path and was homeless in college off and on, now she's in law school after years of working as a public servant. When you throw away the homeless you throw away human beings, both those whose value is entirely in that fact (which should be enough) and those who will return to having a home and will contribute to society and the economy.

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  • [–] 20 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    That's $2,967.45 a year. I promise you, if you told this guy we were going to start taxing billionaires $3K a year to care for the homeless, he'd say that was a Marxist wealth redistribution plot that would destroy America.

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    [–] 16 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    "Billionaire businessman John Catsimatidis lives on Manhattan's Upper East Side in New York City. He has resided in the same 14th-floor apartment at Fifth Avenue and 63rd Street for over 20 years, and also purchased a home in East Quogue, NY, according to source 2 and source 4."

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    It's probably reasonable to assume all of the 14th floor windows are his ..

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    Did he got stung a bee while having a bee allergy?

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    [–] 14 points 4 months ago

    He could just pay his taxes.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago

    He looks like he eats the unhoused.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago

    Absolutely no understanding how terrible of an idea this is and he probably considers himself a "thought leader".

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago

    Give people over an hour of minimum wage for nothing every day? Fucking socialist!

    Descend, Republican ghouls!

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago

    "For the rich, by the rich" personified

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago

    If he was a smart capitalist he would go where it only costs $8 a day

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago

    Oh let play this out you Tonedeaf fucker. Everyone who can’t afford to live like you do leaves. You and your rich buddies have no lower class now.

    Which means you have no lower class to serve you.

    Which means you soon starve to death.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    If I had a name like catsinmuhtiddies, I would change that shit immediately upon being of legal age to do so.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (1 child)
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    [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    Jabba the Hutt looks weird with hair and pink lips.

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    [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    He should be living at the bottom of the ocean.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    How about we shoot you to space but as a token of good will you can take all of your money with you.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    His last name sounds like a disease.

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