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Much obliged.

As long as the next one is me otherwise fuck no

You should be good capitalists and invest in pitchforks.

Have you decided which stadium you want your struggle session to take place in?

Has the Financial Times always been racist and xenophobic or is this something new?

Just know the rest of the planet hate your dumb fat american guts

We don't need any billionaires and never will. People cant survive on hundreds of millions? GTFOH.

Surely an increasingly larger portion of the labor force dedicating their lives to the whims of a few assholes is not zero sum, right?

Fuck off

Trickle-down economics? On bluesky? In this economy? (Note to self: do not post on Bsky after an afternoon spent huffing rich people's farts)

Huge fucking idiot writes world's most dumbass article, now a available at Financial Times: a publication uttterly unable to read the room on either financial reality, or the current times.

Billionaires aren't people Mulch the rich And the enablers

Your accusation is a confession, you laughable fakes.

Get off the damn floor, you're embarrassing yourself.

This is a bit desperate. Perhaps y'all should stick to giving him amazing viral nicknames? I'm personally looking forward to a hot commie summer with Zohran the Destroyer.

hey guys i think we should hear them out

Mama Mia May a thousand Luigis bloom

Billionaires is how we got to this point. Screw trusting them.

This was clearly written by a billionaire

When has the AEI ever been right about the economy? Or about anything, for that matter?

What we need are fewer poor people. Why does a rich country have so many people struggling? Why are so many working for less than a Living Wage? Heck even the richest there is sees some as the Porky Pig Party.🤣

hahahah shut up idiots

Michael Strain is a billionaire bootlicker.

The more frightened you ghouls are of him, the more popular he gets. Keep it up

You're lost in sauce, @financialtimes.com

Economics is not zero-sum, but political power, influence and control over capital allocation decisions are.

You are out of your fucking minds. Every billionaire is a policy failure.

FT why would anyone care what AEI thinks. What case would you make for publishing disingenuous reputation management on behalf of an organisation funded by the hyper wealthy to advance their interests?

Michael Strain has never been right in his life

@michaelrstrain.bsky.social owes me $1 billion then.

Heh, wands being the suit that represents the labour of mankind, I see what you did there.

You will not be spared

Consider this: billionaires should not exist

ok then give me some money

Get the fuck outta here

Michael Strain is a ridiculous person.

it rules that our entire financial system is basically held together by a bunch of guys going “just trust me bro” to each other

oh i can already tell this is gonna be stupid

How much did billionaires pay to have this shit on the site?

michael straining

Because you've proven trickle down works so great, right? The number of billionaires has only increased and everyone is doing so well, right?

May Luigi, our Patron Saint of healthcare drop a pox upon your house

michael straining his point

We should care what a guy from the gaggle of oligarch ass-kissers thinks?

you gotta be joking. PLEASE TELL ME THIS IS A JOKE.

U guys are so scared, lol, eat shit assholes

Michael Strain fails to understand that the “zero-sum game” that passed through the Senate yesterday is the end of having to pretend billionaires are anything more than a cancer.

It's a zero trickle down game

michael strain should be eaten

Michael Stain

No one needs billionaires except corrupt politicians who are willing to be bought.

shut the fuck up

What is this garbage? Every billionaire is a policy failure.

Nazi says what?

More billionaires.....to eat?

we will eat them, one and all

Fuck off a billion times

they cant get over it until we bring closure to it

yeah. ran through the whole thing and it only lasted 50 years before devolving into fascism.

Tell Michael Strain to kick rocks

Bootsucker Maclicker is a trust source of information

Michael should Strain so hard he pops a vessel, imo

Wealth distribution, French style

How about taking your zero sum bullshit and sticking it straight up your ass?

pee pee poo poo

more billionaires…we all could be one!

deeply unserious post. interesting how it does not cite any research, does not talk about how exactly the billionaires came upon their billions, or how they treat the people in their employ. delete this shit from this website and yours

Being a billionaire is having far more than is needed for a luxurious lifestyle so what is the incentive? Greed, pure and simple!

Wrong.

If the economy grows by 10% annually and the wealth of the richest people grows by 50% where did that extra wealth come from?

Sounds good. I hope everyone is billionaire. I also hope we can ride unicorns. 🦄

There's a billionaire shortage??! Maybe our best minds such as Musk and Bezos could figure out a way to create some new billionaires from their ~$500bn ? 🤣

Been waiting since Raygun, still no trickle down.

No.

@financialtimes.com I have a better idea

youtu.be/Wh3t49NsWBA?...

Is this the same AEI where Bell Curve author Charles Murray is still an Emeritus Fellow who believes that intelligence is genetically related to 'race' and which has received $millions in donations from ExxonMobile while funding bursaries for scientists to debunk climate change? Great work the FT!

Hahahahahahaha talk about a publisher that’s out of touch with the majority of people. This timeline SUCKS!

And the rest of us just become slaves.

Wow. The American Enterprise Institute, a rightwing thinktank, thinks redistribution is bad? What a shock

🙄

No, the world needs zero billionaires

Get fucked

You ask for $40 a month and publish aei nonsense?

I don't need the article to know that Financial Times is useless. Actually scrap that, what ply are the pages?

What the fuck? Rofl my dudes if every billionaire died at once the world would be a better place.

Utter nonsense. Arguably the greater benefit comes from the World Wide Web, mostly developed by Tim Berners-Lee, who did not become a billionaire, with a little help from tax payers funded defence establishment.

Society has certainly moved past the need for “Financial Times”

Also the other monkeys would beat it to death

💯 “What if the DSM diagnosed the cultural pathologies of capitalism and colonialism rather than the individuals afflicted by them?” www.madinamerica.com/2025/02/turn...

Lol

"Say what?"

For every billionaire according to his guillotine

Counterpoint, shut the fuck up

The evidence to date is that billionaires are irresponsible, inclined to abuse their power and celebrate profiting from exploiting people and blatant theft of other people's intellectual property, knowing full well most do not have the resources to sustain a legal action. No thanks .

Just here for the ratio - y'all putting up JD Vance numbers

BULLSHIT.

Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven? No, but we could call it debatably debatable. But to crawl on your belly in hell for the chance to lick the crumbs from Satan's lips like a dog...demand more for yourself and from yourself, Michael.

And predictably the knocking articles appear out of nowhere! 😂

Michael Strain is an imbecile.

The singular royal we is desperate for the world to believe that it deserves absolute power. It fucking doesn't though.

Would have been easier for Michael Strain to write 'I'm a fucking dumbass who doesn't know how anything works.'

The minute I see a right wing institute talk about median income and not number of billionaires I’ll listen

It’s not worth subscribing; it’s mostly stories about converting working-class life expectancy into tax cuts for the wealthy.

Of course it's a negative sum game, since all the billionaires' money landing in offshore accounts disappear from the economy.

@michaelrstrain.bsky.social actually wealth inequality sucks shit. We will remember this during the revolution

Ha ha. No.

Define mentally unwell

lmao