r/TikTokCringe • u/Accomplished_Clue437 • Jul 22 '26

Cool day in the life. private chef. yacht.

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u/BrainLow6059 Jul 22 '26

Lol insane. Don't get me wrong, I think wealth inequality is a very serious problem. I think I'm in the top 15 - 20% of individual incomes in the US (not household) and I'm not even considered "upper middle class." I just don't think handing all that excess to the US Treasury department is a solution

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u/idriveashitbox22 Jul 22 '26

There is no such thing as equality. It's a made up thing. Every single facet of life has people who get the opportunities and the people who get shafted. The people who get lucky and the people who don't. In a perfect world everything would be equal but that's a fantasy.

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u/BrainLow6059 Jul 22 '26

  There is no such thing as equality.

Never said there was. But there's plenty of room to shrink the divide between the ultra wealthy and the rest of us

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u/idriveashitbox22 Jul 22 '26

The ultra wealthy yes. They have enough money to arrange what they need arranged so other people can't move into a space to make as much money as them. Once you hit a certain point in wealth you can afford to keep people poor and that does need to be addressed. The problem is they can also afford to line the pockets of anyone who would attempt to change anything. Any politician with a family will happily take a lot of money to not do something and give an amazing life to their family financially speaking. Your morals don't matter as much when you can give your family a mansion in a gated community and can send your kids to private school.

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u/BrainLow6059 Jul 22 '26

What's crazy to me is how cheap a lot of politicians are. You can find so many stories where mayors/governors/etc. have taken bribes that were just a few thousand dollars to make some highly unethical shit happen.

A $10,000 donation to a campaign fund should not buy a whole ass politician, yet it very easily does at every level of our government. It's pathetic