#capitalismworks

[tmarshconnors]

The Catchphrase Says It All..

It’s funny how language reveals intent. The rallying cry of modern leftists isn’t “help the poor” or “lift people out of poverty.” No, the phrase that echoes through protests, Twitter threads, and political speeches is “tax the rich.”

This isn’t a coincidence it’s a reflection of what really drives these movements. It’s not about improving lives; it’s about punishing success.

Envy Over Solutions

If the true goal was to help those in need, wouldn’t the focus be on creating jobs, improving education, or incentivizing charitable giving? Wouldn’t there be a push for economic opportunities rather than punitive taxation? But instead of advocating policies that uplift, the Left fixates on tearing others down.

The phrase “tax the rich” betrays a mindset of envy rather than progress. It’s about resentment, not reform. It’s far easier to demand that someone else pays up than to take responsibility for fixing systemic issues.

A Convenient Scapegoat

The wealthy are an easy target. They’re a faceless enemy, a villain in a simplistic narrative where success is inherently immoral. But here’s the truth: the rich already pay a disproportionate share of taxes. In the UK, the top 1% of earners contribute nearly 30% of all income tax yet activists act as if they pay nothing.

Meanwhile, billionaires create jobs, invest in innovation, and fund philanthropy at a level governments could never match efficiently. Yet, rather than encouraging more wealth creation, the Left would rather see wealth punished even if it means fewer jobs and lower economic growth.

What Should the Focus Be?

The slogan should be “help the poor.” That means supporting policies that actually work:

✅ Encouraging job creation – Lower taxes on businesses to spur investment and employment. ✅ Fixing broken welfare systems – Too many programs trap people in dependency rather than providing a pathway out. ✅ Championing education and skills training Empower people to rise on their own merits.

Instead, the focus remains on punishment. And that’s why so many leftist policies fail—they’re not about making the world better, just about making it "fair" through forced redistribution.

The Takeaway

The obsession with “tax the rich” is a telltale sign that the movement isn’t about helping the poorit’s about resentment, control, and ideology.

Real change comes from policies that create prosperity, not ones that destroy it. But as long as the loudest voices are more concerned with taking from others rather than lifting people up, we’ll never have real progress.

[qudachuk]

For many reasons it is no surprise that the office exodus is so pronounced in the historical centre of Anglo-Saxon capitalismWorking from home is a seismic shift in employment patterns that has rocked businesses, charities and public sector organisations...

[superdaddylovessarahlove]

Message to the Black Woman: Part 2

[chrissacooper]

ok so let's talk about free market #capitalism for a second! i see this allllll the time in cosmetics of different brands (i mean, the account this is from is literally called @dupethat, honey) but in this situation this is the SAME COMPANY selling you essentially the same product under two different names in an effort to maximize profit off of something that isn't discernibly different to the average consumer. (that means NOT professional makeup people who like owning fifty variations of the same thing.) this is a practice all kinds of companies engage in - a practice that is, ultimately, a scam to make more money that, as corporations, they will pay minimal tax on. they are taking money out of the hands of consumers and handing them a product that is just a "rebrand" of something they already sell. then the companies get reviewers (no shade to this one, it isn't your fault, we're all slaves to capitalism and everyone's gotta pay for food and rent under it) to say things like how one color is deeper or some twist of semantics (and/or how they "changed" their formula by tweaking one negligible amount of pigment or chemical somewhere, so it "different" under free market rules) to pander it as something new, exciting, and worth whatever ridiculous amount of money they're going to demand in exchange for hustling you. and people buy it, because we want to look pretty, and the cycle of the #ouroboros (look it up) that is capitalism continues unabated. so we wake up another day to continue slaving away for capitalism so we can get scammed some more by people who just want to profit off of us. capitalism is how kylie jenner became a "self made" billionaire. don't be mad at her for that, be mad at capitalism for enabling it to happen. thanks for coming to my ted talk. 😬 #yaycapitalism #capitalismordeath #capitalismworks #chastitycagescapitalismcircus #politicaltop #politicalqueen #dragtivism #dragtivist #politicsareadrag #capitalismkills #capitalismisadrag #fuckcapitalism #thursdaythoughts https://www.instagram.com/p/BwsnukvB7Kf/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1nya06yrxq9ql

[grayfox12q]

This is quite possibly the dumbest thing I've ever read. I feel slightly less intelligence for placing my eyes on these words !#capitalismworks

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[rupiyaapaisa]

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.                                                                                              .....BILL GATES for more details 💻🌍visit- www.rupyaapaisa.com or 📞☎️call us at:- + 91 9811773199 http://bit.ly/google5km #workingcapitalwednesdays #workingcapitalfinacing #workingcapitalmadeeasy #workingcapitalloan #workingcapitalapplyonline #workingcapitalgloss #getworkingcapital #barelyworkingcapital #workingcapitalbrewing #capitalcoworking #workingcapitalforsmallbusinesses #workingcapitalapplication #workingcapitalloans #workingcapitalwednesday #workingcapitalonlineapplication #workingcapitalapply #workingcapitalaccelerator #workingcapitalfinance #workingcapitalwhenyouneedit #workingcapitalsmallbusinessloans #digitalbaba #digitlbaba #kapoorphotography #robatbaba #nitinkapoor #capitalismworking #workingcapitalmanagement #workingcapitalonline #workingcapital #workingcapitalsolution

[stevejh1961]

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Private sector innovation has created the wealth that enables people on welfare to earn more than the average worker in the 1930’s.. #capitalismworks https://t.co/Q7X1fnuVqG

— Polittiscribe (@polittiscribe) March 11, 2019

[impossibledragoncollectorlove]

With my brother from another mother, @jesseelderlive at the Capitalism Conference in Austin. I think we covered 27 topics in 45 minutes. We love fast!!! #capcon2017 #capitalism #capitalismrocks #capitalismworks #entrepreneur #entrepreneurship #entrepreneurships #entrepreneurquotes #entrepreneurlife #entrepreneurlifestyle #entrepreneursofinstagram #entrepreneurship101 http://ift.tt/2j8k6fk

[itssatya]

Americans were the first country to develop a working CG Tech.  While Russian were the Last. Hmm... The difference between political polarization v's Practical results 

[johnspencerellis]

Think about it..... Capitalism pays for the planes that drop the food. Capitalism provides the biggest opportunities to help. Capitalism funds all the donations from Bono, Bill Gates and Warren Buffet - the world's biggest philanthropists. Try to build a village or a hospital without wood, nails, concrete, bricks and roofing materials.... All provided by the results of capitalism. Yes, people need to go pound the nails, and their plane ride and building supplies are provided because of capitalism. When micro-lending is used to help individuals start their own business in third world countries.... It has a HUGE success rate and it's capitalism. Go ask a broke person who hates capitalism to donate $100,000 to help people with AIDS or a poor island nation. Yeah...... Not gonna happen. At the last charity event I attended, we raised $3M for sick kids in just 3 days. Everyone there was a business owner and a capitalist. I didn't meet one people who hated capitalism. Could a group of capitalism-hating people do the same? I've never seen it. Fun fact: People often protest "capitalism" do so by blogging and using social media.... Their Mac computer, iPhone, Wordpress blog and social media platforms used to spread their nonsense are all forms of capitalism. Yes, it's that dumb!!!! #capitalism #capitalismworks #capitalismrocks #capitalismrules #capitalismisawesome #thinkaboutit #besmart #besmarter #dothemath #philanthropy #philanthropist #iprefersmartpeople #smartpeoplerule #smartpeopleproblems #charitywork #proudcapitalist #teamjse

[voodooplex]

#baddesign really goddamn aggrevates me... the Arrow Fastener Company, LLC., would like to sell you #gluesticks that don't stay in their #hotgluegun... the sticks fall out the back if you blink. the feed tube holder for the following stick is too short and the wrong diameter to hold it, much less help push the last of the first stick through. #dipshits. <swipe> so, i #modded it with a piece of a #knitting #needle. #arrowfastener #crafting #cheaptools #workaround #toolmod #maker #fixit #stoptheinsanity #frustration #capitalismworks! 🖕 (at Arrow Fasteners)

[chrissacooper]

field trip day to #nasa and honestly i spent more time openly lamenting how much this country spends on war vs how much they spend on our space program to anyone within earshot than i did actually listening to anything the tour guide said. also like 85% of the tour were a bunch of windowless buildings whose only discerning feature were what number was on the side. 🚀 #spacecenter #spacecenterhouston #houstonwehaveaproblem #capitalismworks #momlife #houston #htx #spacecity (at Space Center Houston) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwnHytrBB5m/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=10kcg0jupsy9c

[chrissacooper]

goddammit. #capitalism got me again, y'all. 😒 #trolledbycapitalism #gummyllamas #llamasofinstagram #llama #llamagram #capitalismordeath #capitalismworks (at 99 Cents Only Stores) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwfRZwBBwuV/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1vvqxqlob9ylo

[chrissacooper]

is this why i have no friends? jk, this is me in every social situation while completely sober. also me whenever i sit down to shoot a video. 🙃 #capitalismordeath #capitalismworks #fuckcapitalism #chastitycagescapitalismcircus #dragme #brbdraggingmyself https://www.instagram.com/p/BvuZs0Khzal/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=n5vtn540wby7

[chrissacooper]

i went without a computer for almost a month (i know, #firstworldproblems) which left me with some pretty crippling anxiety and debilitating dissociation while i tried to cope with the loss of several years' worth of content. all of this was my own fault and therefore just a colossal reason to hate myself, which is to say it's actually been a pretty dark time in my life recently. the computer situation has been resolved as much as it can be, but i'll never see that content again, including the videos i was editing that i have to start over with. i hadn't written much by hand in the past few years but spent the entire morning writing what will become a digital manifesto of why capitalism is going to kill us all and why we're going to let it. it doesn't make me feel better about living on this planet; if anything, writing it all out actually makes me feel worse. so i hope y'all aren't looking for feel-good content, but we can laugh about how we're all going to die when it's over. 🙃 #chastitycagescapitalismcircus #politicalqueen #politicaltop #capitalismordeath #capitalism101 #capitalismisadrag #capitalismworks #fuckcapitalism #capitalismkills #killme (at Houston, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxNYXjohY8c/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1itp0op5ygwsd