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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (6 children)

We need to come up with a slur for billionaires...

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Billionaire is already a slur.

No one makes that much money without screwing over and abusing other people. There are no ethical billionaires.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just call them oligarchs, which already has a negative connotation

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

And also is completely accurate. Mainstream media, mainstream politicians and others who are members of the big club want you to think that only Eastern Europe and parts of Asia (not the parts they have lucrative business with) are mostly controlled by a few rich people.

The reality is that the US has more than a third of the world's billionaires in spite of having only 5% of the population and those billionaires and the rest of the. 1% ABSOLUTELY are oligarchs that control the country much more than any elected officials.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Leeches, vampires, parasites, oligarchs, scourges of the Earth, pure evil...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

There is one and you just used it

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

"rich fuckface"