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Class catastrophe (lemmy.world)

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[-] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago

This but the guy on top has a special umbrella that diverts all the water onto those below

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Trickle-down murder

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

@ClaireDeLuna @skhayfa
trickle down economics

[-] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

Theres a missing platform to the right of that where theres a giant step with a guy taking a piss on everyone below.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I don’t know if the graphic refers to the current floods in Greece, Libya and Morocco but it’s almost too relevant

I live in Greece and I’ve been cut off from the rest of the country because the roads (and the villages of course) are completely flooded

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yes it's exactly a reference to current floods and climate extreme events. It's a bleak reminder that we won't face the climate crisis equally, and that the one who are causing the most environmental damage are the ones who won't face any of it's consequences.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Poor plebs having to hold his own umbrellas

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

And the three lower steps fight each other for the only umbrella they have…

[+] [email protected] -23 points 1 year ago

Good take, we should make sure everyone stays on the lowest step

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I don't really get the picture. Is the steps the opportunitys given by money? I guess it's drawn inconsistent, but I thought the water that's diverted from the rich flows down to the poor.

Is the parent comment bullshit cause it implies not everyone can be at the top of the stairs, only be dragged down the stairs? (Meaning the poor people won't benefit from rich people being prevented from being billionaires or something?)

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

The steps are different levels of wealth and power.

And yeah, the comment is bullshit for being an oblique reference to the fallacy that increased equality invariably leads to increased poverty, which is the opposite of reality.

[-] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

Maybe the rain is the tax burden by income. The umbrellas are subsidies so the rich defer most taxes until the point where they get subsidized. The upper class get smaller subsidies hence the smaller umbrella. The middle class have a high burden of the taxes and the lower class are totally drowning under tax burdens. Only those below the poverty line aren't shown on here.

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