Don't carry water for people who would let you die to increase their mountain of gold a little. What you've described might be true of millionaires, even multi millionaires; but no one gets to a billion dollars without stepping on those below them in the pursuit of more money than one person could ever spend in their lifetime.
Being a billionaire is pathological, if the human race was a biological organism and one part of it started hoarding that many resources, we would call it cancer and cut it out.
If we thought about this enough, we'd be two steps from nationalizing the (insert industry here)
This works for so many things, railroads, electric utilities, healthcare system, communication infrastructure, etc. Any industry which operates with a defacto monopoly and which maintains our nations critical infrastructure has no business being run by capitalists on wallstreet. They don't provide any value to these industries, they extract it.
Ironically their "reason" for why they can't afford to provide sick days ("we don't have enough manpower to give people more days off") is going to do the exact opposite by increasing attrition and making attracting new talent more difficult. But don't worry, they'll just lobby congress to repeal the minimum safe staffing requirements to address their created "labor shortage".
Don't believe me, look up how hard they're pushing for one man crews right now. Soon they'll have just one guy (who has been working 80 hour weeks and hasn't seen his kids in months) running a 3 mile long industrial machine solo, carrying hazardous materials through all weather conditions, likely right through your residential neighborhood.
Will there be casualties? Without a doubt. But the returns for shareholders will be glorious.
Everybody look! This worker has fallen in love with his chains and begun to believe wealth inequality is a good thing!
Doesn't matter, if the corporation can afford to pay its C-suite millions and rake in billions for it's shareholders, then it should be forced to pay it's workers a thriving wage. Solidarity to all workers, no worker in any industry should be making starvation wages, regardless of how menial or simple their labor.
Especially baffling considering that a community of people whose single guiding light is hatred for soul-less corporations should not depend on a platform that's hosted and controlled by a soul-less corporation...
You may have been exposed to a bit too much propoganda my guy. The USA doesn't even crack the top 20 in most major freedom indices.
Bro I'm pretty sure they were just playing off your binary joke by pretending that it reads "fuck off" in binary.
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