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Every country with low poverty has billionaires. The same systems that create abundance also create billionaires.
3 upvotes, 9 comments. Yik Yak image post by Anonymous in US Politics. "Every country with low poverty has billionaires. The same systems that create abundance also create billionaires."
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Anonymous 1w

You mean every western country. Fucking classic. If only the global south wasn’t murdered in millions by your countries. Then it might be kinda funny to see the average citizens of western countries in a race to the bottom to pleasure the billionaires the most with the very same tongues they use to spout this drivel.

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Anonymous 1w

This seems like a rather misleading “correlation does not equal causation” thing. Also I don’t give a fuck about billionaires I don’t think they should exist. There’s no way to become a billionaire without stepping on someone’s back to get to that spot.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1w

Also places like Japan, New Zealand, and South Korea. The Japanese were murdered by the millions in WW2, but seem to be doing pretty well today.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1w

Ain’t no way you just mentioned both Japan and South Korea and said “Japanese were murdered by the millions” bro Japanese were literally doing the murder in the millions wtf are you talking about. Are you also gonna cry about white Germans dying in the Nazi army? Regardless, all of these countries you just mentioned have so much western capital influence there’s practically no difference

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1w

100,000 innocent Japanese civilians died in just a few hours during the firebombing of Tokyo. You don’t think thats a tragedy?

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1w

the actual total of civilian deaths is still fewer than a million. I don’t know where you’re getting your numbers lmao. In any case, don’t get me wrong it’s evil that America targeted civilians but it’s just wild work if someone is like “man it sucks all those poor white Germans died in ww2 from the EVIL axis powers” Like it does suck civilians died… but uhhh

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1w

That’s nonsense. Poor countries in the global south have very few billionaires and they are often terrible places to do business in large part because property rights are poorly protected.

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Anonymous replying to -> shazam 1w

The poster did not imply causation. They said the same system that creates billionaires also leads to lower poverty. So the idea is that a third variable (liberal democracy is what leads to both billionaires and low poverty.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1w

It’s a tragedy but it was part of a necessary strategy to obliterate every aspect of Japans economy.

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