Can you believe there are people who want universal healthcare? I mean, imagine getting cancer and expecting the state to pay for your treatment! Ugh!

/s in case it wasn't obvious

keep the gears turning

I'm sure some billionaires would like to think of themselves in this way.

I just saw a Peter Thiel documentary; that person is monster. As if I hadn't known that already, but his tentacles seem to extend everywhere.

But ultimately I agree with you:

I think that what you're frightened of more than anything
Is knowing you need workers more than they need you

Not buying. Companies will stop raising prices when people stop buying stuff. You can't stop buying essentials of course, but companies selling nonessentials like food delivery apps are also posting their most profitable years ever. There's absolutely no reason for that.

Even if it doesn't cause a macroeconomic change, your own wallet will thank you. I have more money than I've ever had in my life thanks to cutting back on most nonessentials. My life is a little boring, but I also have a lot in savings!

Step one is making sure your union has the collective bargaining power it needs to get a good wage and benefits for everyone. Some striking may be involved, so the strike coffers should be robust as well.

Beyond that, wealth taxes and exit taxes on those who want to flee to tax havens with no wealth taxes. Public ownership of some stuff like utilities.

So more or less joining a union if you're not already a member and voting no further right than social democrat.

Mitigations like spending less might also be a good idea or even required, like wearing dust masks in polluted areas, but just like how the dust mask doesn't make the pollution go away, spending less individually doesn't really tackle the fundamental problem of distribution and wealth extraction.

We need actual politics for that.

Well yes, that's the point of the tweet. That, and politicians paid by corporations actively promoting this narrative.

I've come to the conclusion that an absolute cornerstone of Republican economics is that all supply and demand are perfectly elastic. So any increase in costs goes 100% to the consumer's prices. Any increase in property taxes (or UBI) go 100% to rent increases.

They're super confident about economics despite very obviously never having passed an econ class.