The orange baby is happy about the financial vise it’s tightening on those of us who are not billionaires. “We’re making a freaking fortune,” it said. One of the characteristics of socialism and communism is the redistribution of wealth. By the book, redistribution in those systems was supposed to lower the “peaks” (the super wealthy) so that “all boats were lifted” by the tide of more uniform distribution of wealth.
Socialism and communism in practice often stray from that theoretical ideal. We seem to be living in a communist system ourselves now, with many, many subsystems of redistribution operating at full tilt, but instead of lowering the peaks and lifting everybody’s boat, it’s operating in reverse, raising the peaks and lowering the tide.
I think I feel the bottom of my boat scraping against the rocks.
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