• ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Is it just the opposite? Is he actively hindering the black people of Atlanta? Is he doing something differently than all the other wealthy people in GA? If not then I don’t see why he alone is called out here.

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      11 months ago

      Well he famously sued the IRS and got $9m out of that. Pretty sure lots of public programs needed those 9 millions more than a guy who already have more than a thousand millions.

      All obscenely wealthy people are contributing to poverty through pathological hoarding of resources best used elsewhere. Other people doing it too doesn’t absolve Perry from his complicity.

      As for why he’s being singled out, it’s probably because every other time he’s mentioned, the press fawns over his charity and he’s constantly promoting it himself. Even got at least one award for it.

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        11 months ago

        I don’t have any details about him suing the IRS but I do know that you don’t win a lawsuit against the IRS without a strong case so he probably had a strong case. If they overcharged him $9,000,000 in taxes or something then he shouldn’t have to pay it just like the rest of us shouldn’t have to overpay our taxes. I’m sure the Pentagon could have found plenty of ways to vanish that money but they seem to be doing just fine without it.

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        All obscenely wealthy people are contributing to poverty through pathological hoarding of resources best used elsewhere.

        This isn’t how wealth works. Rich people don’t have Scrooge McDuck vaults, because then they’d get poorer every day

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          11 months ago

          I’ve never claimed anything of the kind. Still, that more and more of the world’s income and wealth are concentrated with just a few rich people while the rest gets poorer and poorer is a fact so well-known that you’d have to be wilfully ignorant to not be aware of it.

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            11 months ago

            I’ve never claimed anything of the kind.

            Still, that more and more of the world’s income and wealth are concentrated with just a few rich people

            This is you making that claim.

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              11 months ago

              No. Back when all wealth was physically represented like the caricature your strawman is claiming, wealth and income concentration and inequality was much less severe than it is now. That you can’t differentiate between the hoard of Smaug and the hoard of Musk isn’t my fault.

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                11 months ago

                That you can’t differentiate between the hoard of Smaug and the hoard of Musk isn’t my fault.

                This isn’t how wealth works, so I’m pretty good at differentiating between them.

                Did you mean to say “if I can’t see the similarities between them?” You’d still be just as incorrect, factually, but the sentence would make more sense.

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                  11 months ago

                  What I’m saying is that it doesn’t have to be physical hoarding to be hoarding and detrimental to the rest of society.

                  For example, wealth that stays with the bottom 90% wealth-wise circulate throughout society, benefiting everyone.

                  Conversely, once it reaches the 10% wealthiest people, the vast majority goes towards nothing but accumulation of more wealth for the top 10%, effectively removing it from the larger economy and thus making the 90% poorer.

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                    11 months ago

                    Conversely, once it reaches the 10% wealthiest people, the vast majority goes towards nothing but accumulation of more wealth for the top 10%

                    How?

                    Through investment. Meaning it is back circulating.