@QasimRashid On this topic of billionaires, has anyone watched #KeanuReeves' new #film, Good Fortune 2025? It's a #MustShare #filmastodon 🙏

@QasimRashid back in school we were told energy is like money, it only does something when transferred.

Ie heat to light etc.

Money can only do good if its moving.

Money is a means, a tool. It's what we use when we need something or get something done. However for too many it Is now "the ends" the result that they went. To have more money. A bigger number.

It's tragic really, and psychologists could have a field day.

For the good of the planet, tax billionaires out of existence.

@QasimRashid Here in Australia we have the Fair Work Tribunal which sets minimum wages tied to the CPI. It goes a a long way to protect the lowest paid in our community.

@QasimRashid There is a federal minimum wage and a state minimum wage. In California, it is $16.90 per hour, with some cities having higher values (e.g., $19.18 per hour in San Francisco and $20.25 in West Hollywood)..

@QasimRashid 👋🏻 Who wants to participate?

@QasimRashid OTOH, they are yummy with hot sauce.

@QasimRashid and so off with their heads! Or they can give up their money. They can choose.

@QasimRashid And, on top of that, manipulated us into believing that the economy and prices would explode if we pay workers a living wage.

@QasimRashid Makes one wonder why a #DemocraticSocialist movement has been centered in one of the most expensive cities in the world, New York, when scaling up from a smaller movement is arguably more #Sustainable.

#GenZ #Resist

@QasimRashid Billionaires are stealing THE MOST. Not all of that money went to them. But yes, it's a class war.

@QasimRashid not only has pay not kept up with productivity, prices have increased far faster. Not prices of the “basket of goods”, but of the housing, healthcare, and education that dominate most of our expenses. There was an article circulating recently that tried to recreate the original calculation behind the poverty line, multiplying the price to feed a family by typical fraction of a family budget that goes to food, and found that today’s value would be $140k/year, or at least $70/hour

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It's just inhumane to pay people who don't have higher education or access to higher education $7.25/hr. Their work is as important as any CEO's work. It grinds my gears to hear people complain about paying someone $20/hr to flip a burger, but don't complain about CEO's making 300x's what the hourly employee is making.

@QasimRashid Bowley's Law broke around 1980. As long as it held, anyone could pay for their lifestyle--for themselves and a family--with any commonly available laborer job. If prices went up, wages went up. The money flowed around in orbits. Now prices go up and wages stick. The money goes into blackhole hoards that warp the fabric of the economy towards what rich idiots think will grow their blackholes even further.

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Here's a list of people who used the money from that theft to fund a corrupt fascist movement & buy Supreme Court Justices to end voting & civil rights.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/27/koch-americans-for-prosperity-trump-tax-breaks

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/01/guardian-koch-trump-tax-cuts-extension/

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/dec/05/trump-billionaires-dell-investment-accounts

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/12/05/jeff-yass-school-choice-trump/

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2025/dec/01/case-that-lets-billionaires-spend-big-on-elections/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-03/dell-s-6-25-billion-gift-marks-new-path-for-billionaire-charity

1. Elon Musk $291,482,587
2. Timothy Mellon $197,047,200
3. Miriam Adelson $148,304,900
4. Richard Uihlein $143,498,936
5. Ken Griffin $108,402,284
6. Jeff Yass $101,128,680

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@QasimRashid not to mention that wage theft is one of the most common financial crimes surpassing much more widely reported issues like robbery to those already depressed wages!

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