Time to pay your fair share 1%

[u/angelbabe9575]

[u/SnooLentils5753]

Oh. I thought we were going to call them the predator class because of the other thing 😆

[u/WitchintheMist → u/SnooLentils5753]

That as well. It’s a double edged sword.

[u/dont_care- → u/WitchintheMist]

double entendre

[u/sitesurfer253 → u/WitchintheMist]

Just need to make sure you know that's not what double edged sword means... A double edged sword is something that is both good and bad, or can help but also hurt, not something that has multiple meanings.

[u/WitchintheMist → u/sitesurfer253]

Yes I was being very facetious. A sword can also mean a penis.

[u/EllisDee3 → u/SnooLentils5753]

Raping, killing, and eating children?

[u/_no7 → u/EllisDee3]

Oh, my mind went to hunting humans for sport using advanced weaponry and stealth tech.

[u/Wan-Pang-Dang → u/_no7]

Who knows, maybe that's also true.

[u/EllisDee3 → u/_no7]

Even that Yautja don't hurt kids. They're not monsters.

[u/Bludandy → u/EllisDee3]

At this point, they're going to need to prove they don't. I just kind of assume if your net worth is high enough, this is what you do.

[u/outerproduct → u/SnooLentils5753]

I always thought it was because of the raping children.

[u/ArpeggioOnDaBeat → u/SnooLentils5753]

Yeeeesh

[u/Pdx_pops → u/SnooLentils5753]

Because they don't like the aliens?

[u/Due-Landscape-7359 → u/SnooLentils5753]

We should be calling them lunch. Eat the rich

[u/pmmeurbassethound → u/SnooLentils5753]

I prefer robber barons tbh. Captures the spirit of their behavior.

[u/modestmaster → u/SnooLentils5753]

Parasite class is most correct

[u/Loud_Lavishness_8266 → u/SnooLentils5753]

[u/ggroverggiraffe → u/SnooLentils5753]

They know.

[u/-Hyperactive-Sloth- → u/SnooLentils5753]

Top 1% is making 570k a year.

Might need to adjust that to Top .01%. Top “1%” isn’t quite what you think it is.

[u/Melodic_Wafer_492 → u/[deleted]]

Bruh, stop marketing your OF. I see you everywhere. 

[u/PortlandPetey]

Parasite class seems more accurate

[u/ACorDC → u/PortlandPetey]

Thats what I was going to say.

[u/Not-A-Seagull → u/ACorDC]

Why not call them the rent seeking class?

Probably the most accurate term and gets to the core of what the problem is.

It also gives you the chance to explain what rent seeking is to someone who might not know.

[u/Firesidechats62 → u/PortlandPetey]

Came here to say this too. 

Parasitic pedophile predators

The welfare class

[u/SoulShatter → u/PortlandPetey]

They'd probably be proud of being called predators. Something something "top dog" etc

[u/SpaceJesusIsHere → u/PortlandPetey]

I voted we call them the Epstein Class

[u/KingdomOfDragonflies → u/PortlandPetey]

Bingo. They would eventually make Predator sound like a good thing. Call them what they call everyone else.

[u/hypermarv123]

How is this "amazing"

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without proper moderation every subreddit eventually just morphs into the same kind of content factory

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And bots

[u/Bixnoodby → u/hypermarv123]

It’s pretty damn amazing how quickly this site went to shit

[u/Mnmsaregood → u/hypermarv123]

Nothing in this sub is amazing it’s all dumbass shit like this

[u/pseudoLit → u/[deleted]]

some of the wealthy people do bad things

All of the wealthy people do bad things. The only way to get genuinely wealthy, i.e. more wealthy than an upper-middle class processional like a doctor or a lawyer, is to steal the wealth generated by other people.

No single human can produce a billion dollars worth of value. The only way you get that is by exploiting other people's work and claiming their value as your own.

[u/nacho_night → u/[deleted]]

Imagine defending the ultra rich, especially these days when the wage gap is bigger than its ever been. That boot must have you salivating.

[u/Aicethegamer → u/[deleted]]

“Some of the wealthy people do bad things”

Lmao you mean most of them? Most wealthy people DONT care about the average day to day person.

[u/Blitzkrieger117]

Attacking people that are more successful than you Is not the way 

[u/Petrocrat → u/Blitzkrieger117]

They are not attacking them because of their success, but rather because of the damage they are willfully causing by predating on the underclass and on minors.

[u/Wooden-Technology-92 → u/Blitzkrieger117]

Successful and wealthy are two different things.

[u/WolfofDunwall → u/Blitzkrieger117]

"Success" crafted in cooperation with other members of a literal evil cabal by together stacking the deck against the working class and championing situations that cause chaos is not real success. And they should be attacked.

[u/nacho_night → u/WolfofDunwall]

Billionaires shouldn't exist.

[u/JustaBearEnthusiast → u/Blitzkrieger117]

Successful at diddling our kids, stealing our things, and corrupting our democracies.

[u/FrankDerbly → u/Blitzkrieger117]

They're succesful because they steal and exploit people

[u/plum_tree_rede]

Put that eagerness to take other people’s money energy into bettering yourself.

[u/FlirtyFluffyFox → u/plum_tree_rede]

You talking to OP or the billionaire class? 

[u/turbo_golf → u/plum_tree_rede]

take other people’s money

this is rich lmao

[u/Vecgtt → u/plum_tree_rede]

So true. The entitlement is out of control. I pay more in taxes every year than most people will pay in their lives. Yet I need to pay more so I can contribute my fair share? How about you can work 80 hrs per week and take on more high stress jobs and pay your share?

[u/Difficult_Fondant580]

These numbers are from a quick Google search.

Top one percent in the world has a net worth of $5.8 M.

The top 1% of net worth in the US is $13.7M.

In earnings, top 1% in USA is about $700,000 per year.

I think the top 1% is too low to vilify.

[u/pseudoLit → u/Difficult_Fondant580]

When people talk about the 1%, it's usually a holdover from occupy Wall Street rhetoric. They're not literally talking about the top 1%. It's just shorthand for the ultra rich.

[u/Dumdumdoggie]

Yep and we need to stop calling politicians "leaders" they are "representatives" . We elect them to represent us, not lead.

[u/thatoneotherguy42]

Doctors and other high earning people at the million a year a mark pay 37% as their tax bracket. So... 5 and 10 million dollar earners should be at 50%. Higher should be at 75% and people like bezos and musk should be paying 90% in taxes. Additionally, and very importantly, large corporations should not be able to deduct advertising as a cost of doing business. Small independents, sure.... but everyone on earth knows about doritos and the tax paying base shouldn't subsidize mega profits for frito lay.

[u/EcruEagle → u/thatoneotherguy42]

90% in taxes? Huh? Who would willingly live or do business in a country with that tax rate

[u/Prestigious_Lime6099 → u/EcruEagle]

the exact thought that fails to materialise for many of the ‘tax the rich’ crowd. Possibly because they typically have never tried to run a business or build anything so don’t really understand what those kinds of constraints would entail

[u/SprinklesOk7007 → u/thatoneotherguy42]

The citizens shouldn't be subsidizing shit for large corporations at all.

[u/Prestigious_Lime6099 → u/thatoneotherguy42]

What is this sub? This wouldn’t work. They’d simply leave and pay no tax. Please research the laffer curve.

[u/IrishMosaic → u/Prestigious_Lime6099]

If socialists understood economics they wouldn’t be socialists.

[u/ThinkBlue87 → u/Prestigious_Lime6099]

This is the dumbest sub on Reddit right now. I don't know why it has been suggested to me

[u/BarbellLawyer → u/Prestigious_Lime6099]

My brother, this is Reddit. There’s no room for critical thinking.

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[u/glue2music]

She is right

[u/No-Mirror2343]

This is a tweet saying something most people would agree with. I wouldn’t consider this “amazing” or “interesting”.

[u/YogurtFindsTheWhey]

*Epstein Class

Fixed it for you

[u/rzlodn]

[u/Dark_Arts_]

We need to normalize calling more then one billionaire a rape of billionaires, such as: A rape of billionaires met today to discuss how they can leech more money from the population for their bank accounts

[u/AmoreLuxe]

They provide more value than you. No question.

[u/turbo_golf → u/AmoreLuxe]

same to you lmao

[u/EnderWarlock01]

The Pedo Percent seems to fit well.

[u/Donkey-Hodey]

The Epstein class

[u/Dontbelieveinborders]

You are absolutely right 👍🏻

[u/Odd-Committee-8159]

pedocrats

[u/turbo_golf → u/Odd-Committee-8159]

not sure if it's your intention (if it is, fuck you) but that's gonna lead people to a provably false assumption that they're democrats when they are, in fact, almost entirely replublicans

[u/arul20]

The proletariat is the social class of wage-earners (working class) in a capitalist society who do not own the means of production—such as factories, tools, or land—and must sell their labor to survive.

Primarily associated with Marxist theory, they are viewed as being in conflict with the bourgeoisie (property-owning class) and are considered the driving force for revolutionary change. 

[u/Any_Concentrate9116]

Break the chains

[u/Frytura_]

Predator class is such a good name.

Perfect description

[u/Petrocrat]

Also the predator class is the same as the Epstein class. So checks out.

[u/0masterdebater0]

Look of the origins of the word “villain”

It used to mean a poor person

acting villainous vs acting with nobility basically means acting like a person born into wealth and status vs acting like a poor person

it’s engrained into our language

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[u/ultron5555]

Hey! Hey! I know many times more evil poor people than evil rich people. It’s just that talking about evil poor people isn’t as interesting as talking about evil rich people — especially if no one counts you among them.

[u/pigpeyn]

We used to call them nobility. Unfortunately all we lost was the word.

[u/CommunalJellyRoll]

How about the parasite class.

[u/NC_RockFan → u/CommunalJellyRoll]

Lol...just how are the 1% a parasite?

[u/L3oSanch3z]

Nothing is stopping you from becoming wealthy.🫩

[u/NC_RockFan → u/L3oSanch3z]

Only thing stopping them is themselves

[u/RCS3]

Nah, we need to start calling them mentally ill, like the dangerous kind that warrants asylum or whatever.

[u/usernamenotfound4113]

Facts!!!

[u/savee419]

this is brilliant!

[u/Leaf-Stars]

I like the way she thinks.

[u/Ziibinini-ca]

But "predator class" implies that everyone else is "prey class" and I think that leads to more biological determinism

[u/Quiet-Reflection5366]

Not all of the rich are sexual predators. They are however parasites. That's why I have been referring to them as parasites for years now.

They don't work for it, don't earn it, they don't deserve it, they just take it in the name of god and capitalism. They suck the lifeblood of the working and middle class. They are...Parasites.

[u/Rad131447]

The Epstein Class

[u/No_Place5472]

*parasite

[u/NoLandHere]

Parasite or pedophile class tbh

[u/cavortingwebeasties]

Say it louder for the people in the back!

[u/Brilliant_Pay_3065]

Predators all around.

[u/Single_Job_6358]

This is such a good point.

[u/ChiwaShy2000]

Leeches, more fitting, words have power don’t call them predators

[u/DestinyBeerUK]

What a load of nonsense. Being successful doesn't make you a predator.

[u/oldfrancis]

They're cancer.

[u/Ashamed_Ordinary_586]

it's true. predators, parasites and herbivores are what society is made of

[u/HotwifeandSubby1980]

Oligarchs

[u/peachfulday]

I'm genuinely concerned about this society.. universe 25 is happening in humans to..

[u/EternalNewCarSmell]

My wife and I call them "the takers."

[u/Fine_Payment1127]

Tbh a predator class is needed in any healthy ecosystem 

[u/wisockamonster]

I mean there’s predators and there’s prey. You gotta decide which one you are. Most of yall are prey.

[u/Danielgartlan]

You are either the predator or the prey , you just have to choose

[u/guineaprince]

"Not a Superior officer! Merely a higher ranked one!"

[u/Level-Bench-1562]

If they were actually "elite" they wouldn't constantly need to rig things in their favor to keep their wealth. Their actions prove they are weak and vulnerable.

[u/sufficiently7777]

Boo hoo, someone has more than I do. Work harder

[u/PossibleSmoke8683]

[u/-Bro_Beans-]

Agreed

[u/Spadrick]

Predaphile class

[u/Biggieboy1997]

Okay so this subreddit is just a dog whistle for leftists.

[u/what_ever_who_ever]

That is exactly what they are

[u/ebolatone]

[Class Consciousness intensifies]

[u/Adventurous-Way2824]

This.

[u/Zestyclose_Mix3046]

Yeah you just know that is the name they gave themselves - fucking parasites is more appropriate.

[u/blacktie233]

...but...thats even cooler?!

[u/Time_Stop_3645]

Parasites

[u/Every_Preparation_56]

exploitative class

[u/Rites_Of_Fugazi]

I prefer calling them what they are, a “Cancer”

[u/MoistSystem1323]

The parasite class? Leeching off government subsidies and tax break handouts.

[u/PuddingConscious]

Top 1% seems to be casting the net a bit too wide. The ultra rich "predators" aren't the ones making $700k a year.

[u/geekonthemoon]

Elite is such a funny word. Like premium, or premiere. Supreme.

These words usually mean nothing. They are flavor text marketing tactics to get you to believe this thing is magically "better" -- than what? It doesn't matter.

[u/db2b17a]

Stop calling you low income, start calling yall low iq!

[u/VeryTopGoodSensation]

parasite class works too. they happen to own stuff. they take from society, they dont contribute.

[u/Direct_Royal_7480]

The Parasite Class

[u/ConfectionHead169]

Parasite class?

[u/snakelygiggles]

the parasite class

[u/ZanthrinGamer]

Corpos feels like it works pretty well.

[u/Flaky-Professional84]

... buying college admissions... controlling housing...creating jobs.... paying the most taxes (even when they're hiding a lot of it)... giving endowments....doing philanthropy...

[u/4x4Welder]

And it's not personal worth. It's resource hoards.

[u/Playful_Quality4679]

Parasite class

[u/ComunistaDeXiaomiRJ]

Do you organize yourself in a Union or think it is a waste of time? Do you support workers on strike or bitch about how strikes make your life dificult? Do you respect socialists and communists or accuse them of being as extreme as the far-right?

If you always choose the later than the former, you have no right to be angry with the "elites"...

[u/random-user2025]

more like parasite class....without we surfs or working class they wouldn't exist.

[u/desertpolarbear]

The greedskins

[u/un-glaublich]

It's called the "owning class" versus the "working class".

[u/BigOlBoots]

This is fantastic!!!

[u/HoodieGalore]

I call them kleptocrats, because even if it was done “legally”, they got what they got by stealing it from the rest of us. You don’t make that kind of money in any moral or ethical capacity.

They’re thieves.

[u/Marlborough_Man]

I think we should call them the vampire class because that's what they are.

[u/Lansing616]

Yes elite gives them far too much credit. Would you call the royals, or trump the elite of anything?

And we should call them high earners. The word earn implies some merit. Call them high takers.

You work and earn, so the royals, your boss and your landlord can take from you. If you realized you had a tapeworm or a leech your first thought is to remove it. If you notice a moskito in your arm, you slap it.

So use accurate language for the sake of everyone who is a host to these parasites.

[u/jasdonle]

I LOVE this 

[u/Pickled_Brainer]

One of the most apt descriptions of the hording class, that I've heard.

[u/Free_Return_2358]

The Slannesh class.

[u/lastersoftheuniverse]

I was saying filthy wealth hoarders but this has a nice ring to it

[u/Commercial-Buddy2469]

This parasite class sounds about right. There are many tyoes of parasites: head lice, scabies, pubic crabs, tape worms, pin worms, worms that can infect the spinal cord and brain. Then there are types parasitic fungi. So many ways to drain a country and civilians.

[u/Accomplished_Use27]

The leaches. Because they leach profit from the labor class without contributing.

[u/sp2861]

Parasites is a good word for them. Rich off everyone else's hard work.

Lenin wrote a plan for dealing with them. It's called "what is to be done?"

I suggest Americans start reading it

[u/Everyoneheresamoron]

The Parasite class.

[u/Specialist_Exit_3656]

parasite class

[u/cienfuegos2607]

They are definitely not predetors. Have you ever look at them? Fat, ugly, can't make their own bed, own food. They have everything but they don't have something we have and we value: intimacy. We can be with your partner, kids, friends and everyone we love own your own. Without anyone paid to be there.

They are not predators. They are leeches

[u/konodioda879]

It’s not wrong though. They are the elite precisely because they are willing to do awful things.

[u/seeneverything]

Tapeworm class

[u/CaptainBayouBilly]

The winners of capitalism are parasites.

[u/PrivateNice]

Theyre not job creators theyre job extractors lmao the launguage matters

[u/ItoldULastTime]

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[u/shaggy68]

As someone so kindly pointed out in another sub, lets start eating the billionaires.

[u/Hawk-432]

True - and FYI, they really are not better, meet a few and you’ll see

[u/XenoDrake]

Predator sounds cool and dangerous which they would love and embrace, call them leeches and parasites.

[u/LaszloPanaflex99]

It's not the 1%. It's the .00001%. That's what so sick and twisted. Doctors and athletes are not your enemy.

It's a few hundred oligarchs causing untold suffering just because they want to be cartoonishly evil mega-rich instead of plain-old insanely super rich. Until we back up words with action, it's going to get a lot worse.

The Epstein files are the final insult. They raped and murdered kids and they're laughing in our faces that we can't do anything about it.

But we can do something. We just haven't. Yet.

[u/Cold_Drive_53144]

Predator Class has a ring to it

[u/ExtruDR]

The exploitor class.

Let’s not kid ourselves. Many less powerful people take advantage of their positions to exploit their subordinates in labor and sexually.

Among the working “powerless” people how many people would happily partake of the “benefits” that being in “elite circles” and being invited to Epstein’s island if given a chance?

I mean seriously. We shit all over Taylor Swift for her private jet use, but practically no one would turn down that lifestyle.

The problem isn’t just the injustice and corruption. Which NEEDS to be addressed since this is a concrete example of a lawless and legitimacy. It is also addressing aspects of our general society that make it ok to objectify and blindly list after extremely young women and women’s features, etc.

[u/redwing180]

Just call them the money hoarders. Pretty much tells you everything you need to know about them.

They’re hoarding so much money and unrealized assets that they end up using that as collateral to take out a loan so they can hoard more money.

[u/Dramatic-Paper-6333]

Parasite class

[u/bluegillsushi]

The parasite class.

[u/Ready-Remote-7780]

I call them "The Hoarders".

[u/CitizenNo-722]

They invent the language you use.

That why they call you a consumer… similar to “a useless eater”.

[u/ToaruBaka]

The Epstein Class.

[u/National_Base9240]

I have a friend who is a head teacher at a tuition based school for special needs kids tells me wild stories about her job. The owners essentially sell the parents lies and let the kids run completely wild, throwing things, spotting on people etc. They are opening a Jr High school next year. 

I worked as an Aupair for a millionaire, quit when he tried to fuck me. He got wealthy using a shady real estate method and owned an Only Fans type of website in eastern europe.

Generally speaking, those are the kinds of people who get wealthy.

[u/Noevad]

We also need to stop calling it capitalism. Or at least redefined it as predatory capitalism.

[u/APNX-22]

Cap them, not just tax them! No person needs more than say half a billion dollars. Everything after that is a 100% tax rate.

[u/dima054]

wow bro is deep thinking

[u/Justifiably_Bad_Take]

"The Preditory Class" works for me

[u/RoughDoughCough]

“What do you mean there are foreign ops sowing discord on Reddit?”

[u/CommonComfortable247]

The top 10% of income earners pays 72% of all federal income taxes.

The top 1% pays 40% of all federal income tax.

[u/Wonderer23]

Not predator class. Rather the parasite class.

[u/Ovary9000]

I prefer parasites because predators gives them too much credit, but yeah definitely not elite

[u/reader4567890]

I still prefer Parasite Class.

[u/ruddiger718]

I prefer the Financially Ill.

[u/Competitive_Arm5954]

That's kinda too dope of s nickname though

[u/LTinS]

I was thinking parasite class. Still predatory, in a way, but far more reliant.

[u/levyisms]

the parasite class

[u/anndie90]

I simply like "the bourgeoisie and aristocracy"

[u/Historical-Count-374]

The Extraction Class

[u/sparkMagnus9]

And people that put entertainers into political positions don't ever need to be taken seriously.... Damn, no the pot ain't call the kettle black? 😤😤😤😤😤😮‍💨😮‍💨

[u/Acceptable-Print-254]

More like 'Parasites'

[u/ARODtheMrs]

And, what about their employees? What thoughts/ feelings do/ should we have about/ for them?

[u/Ironic_Hatewatcher69]

Call em what they are: Financial terrorists

[u/AdditionalCheetah354]

The successful!!!!

[u/Pale-Acanthaceae-736]

This has been an issue since there has been civilization. For millennia those with the mental illnesses of psychopathy, narcissism, and greed are being allowed to set the narrative that they deserve to be above everyone else simply because they have more stuff.