Congratulations to Colombia for losing their ticks and rats.
- accumulate absurd wealth
- worry about government finances
- don’t pay taxes
- leave
- complain about having to leave
They’re not actually leaving, besides a small minority. Right now they’re a big fish in a small pond, and leaving it behind isn’t as easy as they say it is.
leaving it behind isn’t as easy as they say it is.
🍻🎈🎉
“People have already tasted the drug of welfare.”
States the 30 year old American-educated “heir to a business empire”.
Welfare hits differently when it comes from inside the family.
to them it’s isn’t so much “doing nothing and getting paid is a crime”
it’s “being nobody and getting paid is a crime.”
So you’re saying they’ve already tasted the drug of excess wealth.
It’s always nice when trash takes itself out
Edit: the gif isn’t working for me but the sheep gives 2 thumbs up 🙄
Looks like it uploaded as a .webp
Try this link https://media1.tenor.com/m/7Ypq9_9najcAAAAd/thumbs-up-double-thumbs-up.gif
Gifs don’t stay gifs if you paste them in from the clipboard, but they do stay gifs if you upload them as a file. It’s an annoying bug.
c/upliftingnews
The more of them going out, the better the hopes for the country. I wish the super rich in my country did the same, but those fuckers won’t get away so easy.
I can’t wait for the day the last country these leeches run off to, bring the same legislation into effect. I’d love to be a fly on the wall in one of their rooms, just see the desperation in their eyes…
nah they’ll buy some island and spend an ungodly amount of money lobbying for it to be their own nation
Did they at least take the hippos with them this time?
The gov’t should hunt them like rabid animals to the ends of the earth.
The government should treat them like the US treats trans people
It’s ironic that the left and the right share the fantasy of Atlas Shrugged: that all of the rich people would fuck off and go live isolated inside a mountain to show how much (little) we need them
Which part of the right thinks that?
Libertarians, most commonly. It’s the plot of their favorite book, Atlas Shrugged, as I mentioned
It’s the same story, but the right reads Atlas Shrugged as a cautionary tale, where the left reads it as aspirational.
That seems like a misrepresentation of the “left” (pretty much a useless term, but oh well).
Most of the “right” indeed believes “rich people” are essential to the economy and their abandonment of a country leads to economic collapse.
I’d argue the “left” agrees that the owners of capital play an essential role in most economies nowadays, but also believe that it doesn’t have to be that way. In a capitalist economy (like most in the world), the need to appease capital owners, constantly growing, desire to accumulate capital leads to unwanted outcomes like democratic backsliding and without resistance economic power subverts democratic institutions.
I’ll admit I don’t know the work you mention in your comment, so I might have missed some context.
I’d argue the “left” agrees that the owners of capital play an essential role in most economies nowadays, but also believe that it doesn’t have to be that way.
So… they don’t play an essential role. If we can make do without them, we don’t need them!
My comment was a little tongue-in-cheek, I don’t think leftists truly want billionaires to go live in a mountain. Personally, I’d rather bring them to justice for their crimes against humanity.
Oh well.
This might present a problem for Trump. Trump wants American companies to control the oil. If the left takes over, they will certainly want much of the profits.
the oil of… Colombia?
I know Colombia has oil, but I assume you’re talking about Venezuela.
Yes, my mistake.
