• Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
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    13 hours ago

    Yeah, I don’t want them to be profitable, but sustainable.

    Even if taxpayers are paying for it, you can’t rely on the (struggling) general population to lift people out of homelessness. Let the rich carry that burden. They are the ones who’ve hoarded money that should have gone to everyone else.

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      8 hours ago

      hoarded money that should have gone to everyone else

      That’s not how money works?

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        8 hours ago

        Yes, because hoarding billions means it was stolen from someone else. Either through low wages, low taxes, loopholes, or unethical business practices.

        Nobody should ever be able to accumulate billions of dollars. We have people who will be trillionaires in our lifetime. Unjustifiable.

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          6 hours ago

          means it was stolen from someone else

          No it isn’t? Usually it just means owning stock in a company, that others want to buy. That stock isn’t “stolen”, neither is the value that others assign to it.

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            3 hours ago

            Maybe not stolen, but capital is definitely extracted from the working class and the people who actually create the things that are making these stockholders money.