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Well said.💙

Love the way you think

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I used to eat oatmeal for almost every meal all week when I was on foodstamps, just to save up to have something nice and ice cream on Shabbat, and the looks I used to get on the checkout line…

How about we encourage the poor to not buy non-essentials so they can stick it to the rich for making a profit? Encouraging people to be frugal and to make better choices is not shaming. It's helping people to free themselves from the prison of malignant capitalism.

And how about we acknowledge that we are fully dependent on their liquid spending. And that even if they did everything right, there is not enough room to climb the ladder. Demand for better jobs doesn’t create jobs. Jobs aren’t products - but we act like they are. Labor is bought. So screwed up.

Right???

I couldn't agree more.

How about we get rid of the poor? Real Progressives wouldn't let society degenerate by allowing the unfit to live.

Friendly reminder 📌: If you buy cheap, you exploit someone else who cannot defend themselves, and you exploit the planet, which is even less able to defend itself. Both the social and ecological backlash have already started to kick in.

Thank you!

Truth !!!!!!!!!!

Like healthcare. That should NEVER be a for profit industry.

Thanks for the tip!

….shame the rich…..then have them pay their fair share of taxes….

Love your wisdom.

I hate the idea that hard working people don't deserve nice things every now and then because they're poor. Being poor is a HARD, soul crushing existence and we all deserve a little reprieve.

I second this proposal.

Love this

Yes. Perfect.

Or paying millions of dollars for the instructions for taping a banana to a wall.

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And shaming the rich for competitive yacht purchase while people starve on the streets. And shaming the rich for pissing contest rocket creations while people sleep in the streets. And shaming the rich for buying elections and selling out the country for a chance at more deregulation(monopolization)

Should be a basic moral standard.

Great idea!

If we're going to constantly go at them for their lack of political insight and general stupidity, and we definitely do, why not go the whole hog? The contents of their shopping trolley is so unimportant I can't see why you're even posting about it.

Exactly

Well said, Andrea.

Important shift. What people buy is none of my business. That my government's system of taxation is FAIR and reasonable is EVERYBODY'S business.

We follow one another at the Nazi bird site.

Great to see you here.

Absolutely.

Bravo👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👆👆👆👆👆👆

How about us shaming the rich for not sharing their immense wealth to help others? They need to be treated like the garbage they are.

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed. -Herman Melville

I’m in!

Yes, this exactly.

A nice change that would be!

Let’s take it a step further and not have commentary on what may or may not be “essential” for people we don’t know.

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And a good thought it is.. I am coming to realize how much of a negative factor the wealthy are to improving life for the poor and working class they literally ruin everything they get involved in

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And the whole disaster profiteering thing maybe make that shameful again?

This has been the claim of the wealthy forever---people are poor because they are lazy. Ergo, they deserve no compassion or support.

No kidding. Subsidized housing is another case in point. The owners can be close to slumlords while getting full market rate because people have nowhere else to go. Afraid of retaliation and too poor to hire an attorney.

A poor person needing a cell phone I can understand . Elaborate nails treatments and hair weaves..? Ok, I’ll shut up.

And meanwhile their precious little Breighlynn or Harrison is starting a measles epidemic because mom saw that gal on Facebook who turned magnetic from getting the Covid vaccine.

Exactly. It's infuriating and incredibly sad.

Not to mention just how fucking stupid that is. It takes thousands of dollars to move into an apartment. When I started out my rent was $250 and my deposit was the same.

Thank you, and bless you.

How can people get jobs without a permanent address? At the very least they need a constant phone number to be able to apply for a job. It’s infuriating that people judge the unsheltered for having a damn cellphone.

A strong thought indeed.

Well said 😊

Being shamed for buying something when you're poor by someone who thinks it's none of your business if they buy a $30,000 handbag says something about the rich.

How about people in general, make better choices with respect to the use of their own disposable income. That would be much more effective than attacking the rich - corporations? I am not standing-up for corporations. It’s just that one has to understand how they work, which would be a long thread.

As well as the more people that can participate in the economy, the better the economy and it's opportunities. Sadly that idea is to much for people that want to control all the money.

Hmmm. Great thought. Let’s do it.

Spot on!

Soild idea.

Sounds really cool and I do share the actual sentiment. But why would anybody do work without compensation? (rich people do not get paid a salary, they make a profit in this simplified view). Is the author exempt because she makes nonessential things , but a wheat farmer has to work for free?

You mean like this🤡🤡🤡🤡

Yes!

I only shame those that spend their money on non essentials then VOTE against their own interests because they can’t afford the essentials. 🤷‍♀️

FAUX CHRISTIAN WORSHIP $$$

Glad to see you again. I left Twitter/x. Always enjoy your take on things.

Oh, the convenience! 🙄

It IS in our power.

Except we can continue to shame MAGA for buying Trump crap while complaining about the price of eggs

As long as they didn’t camp out at Best Buy for ten hours yesterday to make someone get up at midnight and open the store for it. Black Friday needs to end.

But those who we need to feel shame never will. Impossible to shame the shameless.

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If I may, "a morally just society" is an utopia as long as money has "value", I think.

I only need one home. And I’m always on the lookout for a boating friend 🚤 😁

And this fuckery www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Can we Shane them for buying nonessential things while electing a fascist because of the price of eggs?

I agree.

Great idea. 😊

Water is next.

Absobloodylutely! 👊💙

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word

So true. It’s important to nourish the soul.

Love this thought 🙌

When someone reaches $1 billion, we need to give them a medal, shake their hand and say “congratulations, you won at capitalism.” But then take every fucking penny from them after that.

Bread & roses!

Who's shaming them?

Exactly!

We forget the pressure capitalism puts on consumers at all levels. That urge to participate is real. Giving into the urge with little indulgences, eases that pressure. 😊

Amen!

Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours, Andrea. ☮️🍁🌍🥂

Amen 🙏🏼

Guillotines are a couple hundred bucks. How essential they are is debatable for now.

Very good point.

🙌 but…how very un American that would be.

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Well making a profit of non essential things is worse; Making essential things deserves a reward.

Do not forget the politicians that kneel down to suck off the corporations and rich while saying they are liberals there to help the poor.

100%

Personally, I think the French had it right the first time about the rich and entitled:

Also, as if the rich don’t buy non-essential things? That’s truly rich indeed. For far too many of the them, the vast majority of what they buy is non essential. For far too many of them, they also don’t add much if any value back into society. I mean if they want to generalize we can go there

Well said!!!

As if people don't deserve to treat themselves just because they're poor. 🙄

It would be a good idea, but you can't shame the shameless!

Keeping up with The Joneses must be exhausting.

Agree, I also think we’re going to have to let go of the “we told you so, pretty soon” or we going to remain in the elitist democratic camp vs. the camp of caring and being for the middle/lower class.

And the $350M+ super yachts they all have to show off now. These barely existed 30 years ago.

Nice to see you here.

True!! What someone else regards as essential is their business!! Meanwhile rich people who try to exploit buyers with no consumer watchdog should be called out!!

Can billionaires feel shame?

#goldentoilet

It is time to shame the rich for not paying their fair share of taxes! The rich need to be pay taxes at a progressive rate so the rich pay higher rates than secretaries, firemen and working Americans. Get rid of the loopholes & lower rates for dividends & capital gains!