, we’ve decided as a society that even global leaders, scientists and life saving doctors who do the most important work don’t earn that much.

The US doesn't even pay the President $1 million a year salary. Arguably the most powerful person in the world isn't even considered a millionaire status job. And yet we allow shitfuckers like Elon to scam their way into hundreds of billions. It really says that the majority of Americans are A-OK with scams and cutthroat tactics representing them.

William Jennings Bryan, who was a three-time Democratic presidential nominee and served as Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson, said "No man can earn a million dollars honestly". He campaigned under the idea that all of the wealthy are corrupt, and the United States needed reform. It's a sad state of affairs that the majority of our citizens won't vote for politicians that represent the interests of the working class. Almost all of our politicians support and assist the wealthy, and refuse to acknowledge the issues facing the working class, yet people keep putting them in office.

Every billionaire is a wage thief.

What makes Buffet exceptional is that he agrees with you. He has said our system is perverse in that it rewards him more than teachers who actually work for a living.

I have screenshotted and quoted you to a half dozen people now. Well said.

Buffet and Gates are just playing from The Gospel of Wealth, by A. Carnegie.

Bill Gates: No u

Id love to see people apply dialectical materialism to their life and society and still think "yeah but there are still good things about capitalists siphoning value out of worker's labor!"

He isn't surprised, he's doing PR.

Man has direct quotes saying you need to figure out how to exploit people or you will be exploited.

I used that word against BoA for a $35 overdraft on half a dunks coffee. It felt apt at the time but I’m pretty sure nobody knew what it meant.

It’s not late stage capitalism or crony capitalism or über capitalsm: it’s capitalism.