In the 1950s, when I was a child, (Bernie on Twitter)

[Uncle Joe]

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[UpInArms]

1. Bernie Sanders speaks for me

His unerring honesty refreshes my soul.

[FoxNewsSucks]

2. As Ted Kennedy thundered -"WHEN DOES THE GREED STOP?????"

There should be a 100% tax on all income and net wealth in excess of 1 Billion.

Let them live within their means and pay for the common good.

[brooklynite]

4. So, millionaires are okay?

[FoxNewsSucks]

5. If they pay the appropriate rate of taxes.

[pnwmom]

20. In some major cities, a millionaire is just a retired person with a paid off house.

A billionaire has a thousand times as much wealth, which is why even Bernie doesn't decry simple millionaires any more.

That and the fact that he is one, also.

[brooklynite]

3. Leadership is defined as convincing others to take the action you advocate...

...Not seeing it.

[progressoid]

8. I remember just a couple years ago people condemned his push for $15 an hour.

Not so much anymore. Hmmm.

[Uncle Joe]

10. That's the price of leadership,

sometimes it doesn't go appreciated.

[brooklynite]

12. I don't recall him being the moving force advocating $15.

[progressoid]

15. But he was criticized for it nonetheless.

Not unlike the comments regarding his statement made in the OP above.

[betsuni]

19. By whom?

[progressoid]

28. Oh we know who.

But posting it would violate TOS.

But outside of DU

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/541826-senate-rejects-sanders-15-minimum-wage-hike/

[House of Roberts]

21. You don't have to. It's on video, from over seven years ago.

Jul 22, 2015
Sen. Bernie Sanders rallied workers outside of the U.S. Capitol in support of legislation he introduced to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour.

[betsuni]

13. The Fight For Fifteen movement began in 2012 and Bernie joined it later.

[progressoid]

17. OK?

I wasn't claiming he started it. Just that he promoted it.

Obama is often credited with marriage equality when he was actually late to the game. It doesn't diminish his role in pushing it forward.

[wackadoo wabbit]

29. Today, it needs to be Fight for Twenty-Five ... n/t

[pnwmom]

22. Back then $15 was a much higher relative income than it is today. nt

[progressoid]

26. True. And yet it was still low compared to the past.

Thanks to the pandemic, many employers were forced to increase their wages. But it still lags behind the cost of living.

[pnwmom]

27. Right. Back in the fifties, for example, a moderate wage earner with a spouse at home

could afford to buy a little house. Since then it's gotten harder and harder to achieve that dream, even with two incomes.

[Joinfortmill]

6. Yup, it's the 'greed is good' theory gone amok.

[multigraincracker]

7. Money

More is never enough.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

9. Reminds me of this.........

[drmeow]

11. It is a form of pathelogical hoarding

and should be part of the DSM - hoarding newspapers and clothing and the like in your house is considered a pathology leading to an intervention. If you keep buying clothing which you never open and never wear you are seen as having a problem - it you keep collecting money that you don't need and will never spend you have a problem.

Call a spade a spade - they are mentally ill.

[LoisB]

14. I agree.

[brooklynite]

16. I'm not aware of any instance of wealthy people buying things and never using them.

As for "collecting money" I regularly get a message that my investments are too heavily skewed toward one holding (Apple). It's not that I've been "collecting" Apple stock, it's that the value has continually gone up from the (effective) 17c a share I paid for it.

[drmeow]

18. I think you misunderstood my post nt

[Farmer-Rick]

24. I am aware of filthy rich people buying summer houses

And never using them or only using them once in 5 years. They buy them and sell them when they go up in value; never living in them. They could hold them for years and years, not like a flipper.

I know of many rich men buying and collecting cars and not even driving them. They buy paintings and never hang them in their line of sight. Loaning them out to museums for write offs.

I knew a rich guy my uncle worked for. He had to have all this beautiful antique furniture cleaned, oiled, waxed and polished everyday in this one room he called a library. He had collected thousands of old books in there he never read. He never visited the room. No one in his family picked up a book from there. They weren't big readers anyway. Thousands of books that were never opened. A whole room full of antiques never used.

When the filthy rich hoard we call it collecting.

[questionseverything]

31. Couple of years ago some rich people left their yacht docked and forgot it

Reminds me of John mccain not knowing how many mansions they owned

[pansypoo53219]

23. CEO pay is pure bullshit. need a CEO TAX. also golden parachute tax.

[LudwigPastorius]

25. A contributing factor is...

the non-enforcement of antitrust laws.

As corporations grow larger, more money is at stake, so boards use that as an excuse to throw obscene salaries and stock options at executives.

But yeah, greed is a huge part of it.

[Buns_of_Fire]

30. Every CEO I've ever met has a touch of sociopath in them.

That's how they got to be CEOs.

(And in some I've thankfully never met, there's more than just a "touch" of sociopath.)