Opinion | Billionaires Do Not Give Anything to Society—They Take From It

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Opinion | Billionaires Do Not Give Anything to Society—They Take From It
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'In reality, billionaires do not give anything to society.'

Speeches around the world about the fortunes that billionaires contribute to taxes and how much the poor and the middle class receive from this forced generosity, are a literary genre in itself. Even more, this genre is cultivated by the poor below, as the genius of propaganda, Edward Bernays discovered: you should never say that what you want to sell is good, but make others say it instead.

In reality, billionaires do not give anything to society. They only tax back a minimal fraction of what they have taken from it thanks to their position of power in business . But social myths are functional to power and, as such, they are a semantic mask, an ideological mirror that reflects reality, but reversed it left to right. Since in reality, it is the billionaires who steal from the workers every day and in a massive way , the ideological narrative insists that those who want to take from the billionaires to give it to the poor are perverse with"taxes that punish success." This is another myth deeply rooted in society.

Small and medium-sized entrepreneurs compete every day to offer a service and, in this way, obtain profits that allow them to survive and, as far as possible, prosper. But mega-companies like Amazon or Walmart base their success not on competition but on the progressive destruction of that competition, which begins with the annihilation of small businesses through practices such as covert dumping.

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