[a water pipe is delivering water directly in the mouth of a huge character sitting on a chair, gorging on the water, below a label]
Evil proletarian getting all the unemployment benefits

[a few little droplets are falling from the water pipe into the mouth of a thin character in a suit, next to the label]
Poor billionaire trying to buy their 7th yacht

https://thebad.website/comic/the_unfair_society_we_live_in

  • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
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    4 days ago

    I mean, it’s true. Billionaires are basically unemployed, yet when is the last time you saw a billionaire getting unemployment benefits? Justice for billionaires!

    • hector@lemmy.today
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      4 days ago

      The last time I recall Billionaires getting unemployment is Covid. 2008. Even the Silicon valley bank collapse Biden bailed out the banks that didn’t pay into the fdic.

      Because we can’t allow rich people to lose money, apparently. Better to tax working people, while the rich pay lower rates if not nothing, and use that money to subsidize the rich’s business and bail them out from crashing markets.

      They get subsidized, bailed out, we get unforgiving laws enforced by an aristocracy reared to have nothing but contempt and caprice towards us. They are elected positions too, and we don’t even field candidates in all but a few districts for prosecutors, or judges for that matter. Two of the most powerful positions in the country, and both parties being lousy is never more true than it is with country judges and prosecutors.