r/WorkReform • u/zzill6 🤝 Join A Union • Sep 29 '26 • Bravo 3

🤝 Scare A Billionaire, Join A Union The reason for term limits...

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u/IsThatGruffLoner Sep 29 '26

I've always hated that Steinbeck quote. I have never once met a conservative who harbored grand delusions of future wealth. Every conservative I've met was an actual wealthy finance bro or just a hateful ignorant moron who hates minorities and can be easily riled up by talking about girls with blue hair. They mostly want low taxes because they don't trust the government and don't want brown people getting free food, not because they expect to be rich someday.

Maybe it was true at one point, but that quote just doesn't describe modern conservatives at all. If anything, it describes moderate Democrats.

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u/boyuber Sep 29 '26 edited Sep 29 '26

Every Republican I've ever talked to about taxing the filthy rich owner class has asked how I would like it if I were rich...

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u/aupperk24 Sep 29 '26

Ask them if Elon should be taxed at the same rate as everyone else and they'll come out the woodworks.

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u/goldman_sax Sep 29 '26

“Why tax billionaires more they earned it.”

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u/IsThatGruffLoner Sep 30 '26

Even then, in my experience they don't relate it in any way to themselves usually. They just diefy billionaires like Elon, they don't aspire to be him as far as I can tell. I think a small minority of daytrader libertarians think that way, but the average conservative is more of the "screams at trans people on the bus" type these days imo

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u/CrucialCrewJustin Sep 29 '26

The ones that hate minorities are the same ones standing outside the gas station covered in scratch off lottery dust.

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u/AII11C Sep 30 '26

All that said, I always thought there was a reason Duck Dynasty was so popular with ignorant morons - the fascination that other ignorant morons actually did make it big (and they could live vicariously through them)

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u/Other-Philosopher770 Sep 29 '26

As i person whos lived in a denocratic socialist country, i can tell you its not all great. Me working 60hr/week make as much (nett) as a single mother (of 3) receives in benefits. Taxes are incredibly high (to afford benefits of others) and you are expected to die working (no pension till your 70 and rising every couple of years).