Abigail Disney, Brian Cox and Valerie Rockefeller among signatories of open letter condemning inequality

Abigail Disney, Brian Cox and Valerie Rockefeller among signatories of open letter condemning inequality

More than 250 billionaires and millionaires are demanding that the political elite meeting for the World Economic Forum in Davos introduce wealth taxes to help pay for better public services around the world.

“Our request is simple: we ask you to tax us, the very richest in society,” the wealthy people said in an open letter to world leaders. “This will not fundamentally alter our standard of living, nor deprive our children, nor harm our nations’ economic growth. But it will turn extreme and unproductive private wealth into an investment for our common democratic future.”

The rich signatories from 17 countries include Disney heir Abigail Disney; Brian Cox who played fictional billionaire Logan Roy in Succession; actor and screenwriter Simon Pegg; and Valerie Rockefeller , an heir to the US dynasty.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    851·
    10 months ago

    It’s not enough to just say it.

    Because other billionaires give millions to ensure it doesn’t happen. And I think it would be naive to not expect some overlap in these groups.

    If they mean it, they should literally put their money where their mouths are and donate to progressive Dems during primaries and the general.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      371·
      10 months ago

      Exactly, this is just a game of “our billionaires are better than your billionaires” and considering their billionaires are paying them off, that’s not surprising.

    • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      23·
      10 months ago

      If they mean it, they should literally put their money where their mouths are and donate to progressive Dems during primaries and the general.

      How do you know they don’t?

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        53·
        10 months ago

        Stuff like this…

        https://www.newsweek.com/disney-gave-least-250k-senators-that-voted-dont-say-gay-bill-1686128

        Rather than ask me for a source of all of them not donating…

        Wouldn’t it be easier to find a single one about them doing it?

        You’re asking me to do something incredibly time consuming, and frankly close to impossible with just public knowledge, but to prove your side, you just need to find a single source to prove me wrong

          • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
            12·
            10 months ago

            I can’t see where she’s donating to progressive candidates…

            I know she says stuff, and donates to charity.

            I said:

            If they mean it, they should literally put their money where their mouths are and donate to progressive Dems during primaries and the general.

            And I haven’t seen any evidence any of them do. Maybe some gave a couple thousand, but that won’t beat what billionaires spend on PACs.

            • EatATaco@lemm.eeEnglish
              21·
              10 months ago

              You made a claim, implicitly, that they aren’t doing so. You were asked how you knew this claim was true. Your response should have just been that you don’t know whether it’s true, only that it’s what you think they should do, instead of trying to blame the other poster.

              • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                10 months ago

                Oh cool, another person who can’t link a source for any of these “super rich” donating substantial money to progressives in primaries.

                There’s a lot of y’all, you don’t have to keep telling me you couldn’t find anything

          • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            10 months ago

            Done

            Those are good causes…

            But I don’t see anything about her making political donations at all, especially not in democratic primaries to progressives

              • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                10 months ago

                Nope, just not what I asked for.

                Like, if I asked to borrow a pen and you gave me a cupcake…

                Cool, thanks for the cupcake, but I was asking for a pen buddy.