A billionaire, a working man, and an immigrant are all in a room with 100 cookies on the table.

[soothsayer]

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A billionaire, a working man, and an immigrant are all in a room with 100 cookies on the table. The billionaire takes 99 of them and then whispers to the working man, “That guy’s gonna steal your cookie.”

[Lovie777]

1. That is the republican mind set . . ...

[soothsayer]

2. That's their strategy

[NullTuples]

29. Except they'll add, "better let me take that last one, too..."

[2naSalit]

41. +1

[iscooterliberally]

5. Republican 'happiness' is dependent upon the misery of others. n/t

[TheFarseer]

3. That is perfect!

[essaynnc]

4. until recently...

substitute black guy for immigrant. its the same old shit, just packaged differently by the republicans.... thats the southern strategy in a "JOKE".

[Glaisne]

6. Here's the GIF

https://imgur.com/gallery/C78RK9P

[brooklynite]

7. Yawn...

"all rich people are greedy" is as silly as "all poor people are generous"

[PurgedVoter]

8. Yawn...

Yet statistics yield exactly that conclusion.

[PETRUS]

17. True, not all rich people are greedy.

Some understand how things work and are embarrassed or even outraged about it. Others are just plain oblivious.

[paleotn]

20. And others steal gleefully.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

23. But ironically

They never give away enough wealth helping people to the point they join the working class.

Why is that?

They think themselves special,even as they give others peanuts.

And we praise them like they are so generous.

The working class gives way more than the rich do.

[PETRUS]

24. I agree

[I_UndergroundPanther]

27. Send this to president Biden

And Rachel Maddow
This kind of morality will destroy the republicans.

[RicROC]

31. i don't think someone can become a billionaire by being honest.

[PETRUS]

44. Maybe you're right. I don't feel as though I can say.

What I'm comfortable asserting is that the system is immoral, and the existence of billionaires is immoral. Whether or not some or all of them are also lying and cheating is a secondary issue as far as I'm concerned.

[Wednesdays]

18. Betcha can't name five who aren't.

I can name fifty who are. Just off the top of my head.

[paleotn]

19. Who said all?

Some most certainly are. Some aren’t. But numerous psychological studies show that vast wealth does rather nefarious things to the human psyche Things not particularly useful or healthy in a cooperative society.

[dpibel]

21. But of course that's not the point

This allegory is not about greed. It's about the time-tested technique of the wealthy setting the poor against one another.

But perhaps that analytic hurts your feelings as well.

[JanMichael]

39. Bingo! I had that on my card, thanks. nt

[Demovictory9]

9. Lol..good one

[mitch96]

10. Johnson had it...

YMMV
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[burrowowl]

11. Yes he nailed it

[SunSeeker]

33. He grew up with those racists assholes in Texas.

He knew what he was talking about.

[BobTheSubgenius]

12. All this needs to be perfect...

...is for the capitalist to have a crony.

[Initech]

13. Actualy the billionaire would steal all 100 and leave us to fight over the crumbs.

[Jon King]

14. I saw a post defending the billionaires.....

Saying not all billionaires are greedy...simply impossible to be true. In order to become a billionaire you have to be greedy. Because starting a business that takes off would require many employees along the way or it would never have happened. The only way for the guy at the top to become a billionaire would be to take more and more and more of the pie as the company grew. While distributing less and less percentage wise to the employees along the way.

In many cases employees come up with ideas or intellectual property. Its totally up to the owner how to compensate. Lets say for example the employee's invention makes the company $200 million per year. Does the owner give the employee a decent percentage of that return? Or does he give the employee a $50000 one time bonus? Huge difference in attitude and wealth distribution.

Couldn't the Walmart clan be worth $10 billion instead of $210 billion? Sure, they could have distributed more and more shares of the company to employees over the last 40 years. They would still be super rich even with $10 billion.

Like Obama said, you did not build that alone. Any successful business requires the infrastructure of roads, police, military, educated work force that we all pay for. Thats why it is so horrible when large corporations skirt their taxes.....if not for the America tax payers paying for the American infrastructure, your company would have never gotten off the ground.

[stopdiggin]

22. while agreeing with a lot

of what you have to say (probably north of 98%) I'm going to take the time to point out that it's kind of a simplified postcard -- of what is a fairly complex system (and set of ethos).

Yeah, bottom line .. the rich could just give it all away, or 'give it all back.' (and the owner/businessman could just 'share' all the profits) But then we'd be living in a very different world .... Right? And what happens when your neighbors decide that YOU have way too much stuff in your garage -- or your pantry?

Human beings kind of got off on this track of 'personal belongings' and property -- a fairly good stretch back .....

[geardaddy]

15. An oldie, but a goodie. n/t

[IronLionZion]

16. The billionaire would call himself a "cookie creator"

even though he transferred the cookie jobs to China to find efficiencies. It's all a communist plot. Those damn evil foreigners keep stealing our cookies.

[FakeNoose]

25. Some poor people inexplicably believe in the "prosperity" gospel

... and they believe that Jesus will wants them to be wealthy. It blinds them to all the ways they're getting their pockets picked by the one-per-centers.

Ain't religion great?

[RANDYWILDMAN]

26. Nailed it.

Many billionaires are socially liberal. I mean look at old billy gates taking jeffrey epstein under his wing !

[PatrickforB]

28. Yep. 100% true. No other comment needed n/t

[mac2766]

30. So frigging true.

I've worked around the wealthy and they are as greedy as you'd imagine. I despise executive types most of all. That's my bigotry I suppose. Classing all execs in a single pool and calling them all greedy.

[marble falls]

46. Your "bigotry". What if those execs come from Florida?

[mac2766]

47. Lol..

touche

I was simply trying to make a point in a constructive way. Nothing personal. The word that used to be used to describe a person from Poland has now become "Florida Man". That was my point. You might say that I was fishing, and I got a couple of bites.

[Rhiannon12866]

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[jimlup]

35. And the worst part is half the population is taken hook line and sinker

[ck4829]

36. K&R

[betsuni]

37. No, put three Americans in a room with 100 cookies and see what happens.

It depends on who the people are, like everything else. Stereotypes are stereotypes.

[Maine Abu El Banat]

38. Perfect!!!

[Blue Owl]

40. K&R

[JI7]

42. No, this is too simplistic and makes the "working man" seem like a victim.

The reality is that it could all depend on the race and other background of the individuals.

If the billionaire was a minority and the working man was a trump supporting white guy and the immigrant was white they would react different than if the billionaire was white and the immigrant was non white.

[mathematic]

43. Stop valorizing anti-immigrant bigotry from "the working man"

Nobody that hates immigrants ever needed a billionaire to tell them to.

[moondust]

45. The billionaire often has some lackeys

do much of that "work" for him and then guard all those cookies while he sails around in his yacht. (For a ̶b̶r̶i̶b̶e̶ contribution, of course.)

The lackeys agree that it beats flipping hamburgers.

The lackeys are known as "Republicans."