You’re not voting based on logic if you vote based on money at the expense of everything else.

How much good is all your money if there is no health care for you because the health care system collapsed?

How much good is all your money if you are segregated again from most of the things it can buy you?

How much good is all your money if you are gunned down in the street because your state cannot afford to pay it’s police to protect your wealthy house and neighborhood?

How much good is all your money when you can’t buy food because there is no food? Did you think farmers were going to grow food for you at a loss because your so special, so wealthy?

How much good is all your money when your children can’t read because your state cannot pay it’s teachers? How will they maintain your wealth if they’re as educated as a box of bricks?

You won’t be enjoying lamborghinis either, at least not for long, if the roads cannot support driving them. They’re very low to the ground and don’t do well with potholes.

Or yachts. Who wants to go sailing in contaminated, polluted, dead water? So fun, I’m sure.

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During modern history the wealthy have not paid fairly into the nation they have taken part of and taken advantage of, relying instead on the middle-class to build this nation.

There is no middle class anymore, or very little of it. What’s left is dwindling by the day. They can’t continue to shoulder the burden of keeping the nation. So, you wealthy are going to have to do your share for a while. You’re going to have to support policies that rebuild the middle class. You’re going to have to support a more equitable financial spread and rebuilding of public goods and infrastructure.

Otherwise, 50 cent and Ice Cube …you can audition for the BET produced reality TV version of the beheading of Marie Antoinette. Because starving masses will come for you eventually. All action recorded live. They will not use kid gloves. They won’t care that you’re black when you didn’t care about them when you had the chance. And your money will not save you.

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In the Nordic economic model, businesses like Ikea pay heavy taxes. The wealthy in Nordic countries pay around 60%. If you ask them if this is too much, they wonder why you would ask such a ridiculous and foolish question. They have dedicated themselves to equality and equity after the ashes of WWII, and are much happier and stable for it.

Besides, at a certain point you’ve made more money than you can reasonably or responsibly spend by yourself. It’s worthless to you other than a large number in a bank account to brag about. But it’s not actually doing anything for you. The only real value that money has for you at that point, is to put it in public space for everyone in some fashion. Sure, you have to share clean air and water with other people, but you have clean air and water. Sure, other people drive on the same roads and maybe they’re slow in their beat up Fords, but you have roads to drive on. You have lots of things you wouldn’t otherwise have if you didn’t operate as part of a collective. And learn to f*$!ing share.

You’re life is improved. Immeasurably. Further, all those people you were looking down your nose at start building and creating things that make your life better when they don’t have to focus all their time and energy on surviving. You benefit from all those things they create.

What? You thought you were going to be the one to usher in the next leap forward? HA! You don’t know how! All you know how to do is hoard money.