The diagram is missing "Tax evasion".
Or is it part of the "How the rich stay rich" diagram?
Taxes exist for public benefit, so tax evasion easily fits in the "merciless exploitation of the working class" category.
Not to nitpick, but tax evasion hurts everybody, not just the working class.
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State pension plans, disability benefits, education... Those are things that concern people who aren't working class, that the state can provide less of, and that working people have to contribute more heavily to, because the rich don't.
Ergo, everybody is impacted when the rich don't contribute to the society they are part of.
All those services are what Mr Money Bags wants privatized so they can profit from providing those services. That's why you hear this talk about social security - the incoming administration wants it privatized.
You're thinking like a human, the rich are thinking like a class above the rest of the humans. Yes it's dumb, but here we are cooking our planet at an ever increasing rate.
Ah that's making sense now, the rich benefit but they're not part of society.
I support that.
Honestly I'd say that is both a part of how the rich stay rich, and also can be classed under exploiting the working class because they don't pay their share and so all the burden falls on the working class, and then we get worse public infrastructure which hurts primarily the working class.
Oh and then the also exploit that public infrastructure for profit while not paying their taxes for it
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Bottom chart is missing compound interest. This makes the birth lottery so unbalanced in the first place.
The focus on the hyperrich forgets that there is also inequality between someone who owns a house/has some hundreds k€ invested and the rest of the population. Which will then get compounded in the next generation.
Finally, I do not think it is even close to half/half. In order to be in the position to exploit the working class you more than likely where born rich first.
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