• HasturInYellow
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    19 hours ago

    Money is really funny because we could all just collectively decide that Elon has no money at all.

    And it becomes true. That’s how money works. It’s a shared hallucination and we can change it any time we want.

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    23 hours ago

    I would change that to “believing wealth protects the wealthy”

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      10 hours ago

      Ever looked at the names of the people who deliver ubereats, or drive the cars, etc? There’s still a disparity. We’re just better at making sure the lower classes aren’t fucked over as badly.

      Which makes your point, to be fair. But there’s still an underclass. 1 in 7 people live below the poverty line in Australia.

      Edit: Check this out. Just read this on the ABC website.

      https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-14/pacific-farm-worker-pregnancies-undocumented-labour/106779364

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        10 hours ago

        That’s funny I read that as well and I got to this part:

        Now in Australia illegally on an expired visa

        She shouldn’t be here

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          She is here though. And on her visa, she still did not have Medicare, apparently.

          Also, there’s a lot of people on expired visas working the jobs most don’t want to do.

          I don’t like it either. If we let this expand, it will become economically integral to Australia like in America, and the misery will be entrenched and defended by the business lobby.