AMERICAN GREED IS BOUNDLESS!
American millionaires will donate thousands to political parties to corrupt the electoral process so they’ll become billionaires.
American billionaires will donate millions to political parties to corrupt the electoral process so they’ll become trillionaires.
American trillionaires will donate billions to political parties to corrupt the electoral process so they’ll become quadrillionaires.
The same greedy characters will not pay an extra 5 percent in marginal taxes to maintain the public infrastructure that made them wealthy.
The same greedy characters will spend 10 to 40 percent of their wealth to avoid paying taxes.
The same greedy characters will pay poverty wages to their employees to keep them mired in poverty.
Are these greedy characters ever going to be satisfied by any amount of money? No
If Elon Musk, a trillionaire can spend 40 percent of his wealth to elect “leftists”* but refuse to pay 5 percent in marginal taxes to benefit society, the same society that made his wealth possible, what type of a person is he?
Can he do this in his native South Africa? No.
*https://africastallestman.com/2016/07/12/the-new-right-is-the-old-left/
Ama Ndlovu explores the connections of culture, ecology, and imagination.
Her work combines ancestral knowledge with visions of the planetary future, examining how Black perspectives can transform how we see our world and what lies ahead.
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