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"I can pinpoint pretty much the exact moment that I started swinging left politically. [...]

"At that point in my life, I was working 24-hour shifts and 72-hour weeks. I made slightly less than $10 an hour for this. I got punched sometimes. And I was reading about people who would spend 10,000 of my hours on a necklace.

[...]

"I can defend the guy with the lake house. I'd kinda like to be him one day. While I'm not sure he *earned* his Lexus, there might be some kind of rational relationship between his work and the car.

"I can't extend this feeling to the ultrarich. Fuck 'em.

"Fuck them and their weirdass parallel universe. Because what supports it is, fundamentally, a tax levied on every worker and consumer in the world. We get paid less and pay more, and for what? For these people to not have last season's gazelleskin handbag.

"(The handbags aren't even the worst part. At least a leatherworker maybe made a little on that deal. The worst part is the money they *don't* spend, the money that just runs up the score in some offshore account.)

"'But they're job creators!' Yeah, that's my problem with them. They created the job where I got $9.75/hr to run $1500 ambulance rides. Without them, either I'd make $700/hr or an ambulance ride would cost $100.

-- Cliff Jerrison (pervocracy), 2019-05-09 (thread of 15 tweets -- long by Twitter standards but a still quick read for y'all)