https://www.resetera.com/threads/tracy-morgan-purchases-2-million-bugatti-gets-sideswiped-a-few-minutes-later-hes-fine.121145/post-21496621
Tracy Morgan pays taxes. Most of his income is wages. I have no problem with any amount of income as long as it is taxed appropriately. In fact, appropriate taxation would solve a huge number of American economic disparity even if nothing else changed.
Tracy Morgan, to paraphrase Chris Rock -“ is not rich. If Bill Gates woke up with Tracy Morgan’s money- he’d kill himself.”
I think it’s fine to be disgusted by someone buying a two million dollar car in a city where people overdose and die in alleys or can’t feed their kids, but Morgan relatively speaking is a moral and ethical capitalist citizen.
People who live on investment income who create zero wealth and pay lower taxes on their income than blue collar workers are a much more significant ethical problem- and have the influence to warp the tax code so that it deliberately subsidizes their lifestyle by placing that burden on workers.
Companies who offshore their income and profits and pay net zero or even profit from us tax codes- while having even MORE influence on tax policy are a bigger problem than billionaire trust fund parasites. Wal-Mart has pushed for improvements in food stamps because they can then pay workers less and those same food stamps arrive as income AT Wal-Mart. So by all means get mad at this guy who lucked out, entertained millions with his talent and was rewarded according to market forces for his ridiculous luxury purchase- but the people you should be mad at get to hide their outrages and never suffer the derision you’re focusing on the wrong problem.
HR Block and Intuit and other tax preparation companies changed the law to DELIBERATELY obscure and hide free tax preparation forms from low income Americans including the armed forces. They’re legally permitted to defraud the most vulnerable American workers into paying for a free system.
Blatant - sometimes with financial crime fraud records — fraudsters masquerade as churches and charities and you pay for their tax free buildings and wages and homes and jets through your taxes.
Tracy Morgan is a citizen who certainly benefits from inadequate taxation and loopholes and likely other problematic structures- but he’s at least paying taxes and within the bounds of what we’d consider “American dream norms”
Start at the top and get mad at the plank in your own eye before the splinter in his.
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I hope someone hits that screed of centrist whataboutism with this absolute unit of Brain Force Plus
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Anyone that legitimately uses this comic to make any kind of point is a colossal dumbass.
No, your stupid fucking luxury item cellphone is not in any way comparable to improving a function of a mass adopted vehicle or something that you literally can't control like... being born in a society.
You think the slave labor at Foxconn jumping off of buildings is going to give a shit about you and your very mild condemnation of the company that you will KEEP BUYING FROM? Nah, what they'd rather see is you stop buying that shit so the company they're working for is forced to change or go out of business. "Oh, but I can't keep in contact with my friends or my work!" Yeah, bullshit you can't do that with a normal phone that more aligns with your supposed beliefs of not fucking over marginalized groups, but nah, you want all the conveniences that comes with whatever smartphone of your choice. Or more likely, you just want to surf the internet and play Plants vs Zombies on your lunch break because you're a mindless consumer that's deluded yourself into thinking maybe you have a conscious. I'd be a lot more willing to believe your "No ethical consumption under capitalism!" pleas if you actually showed you can cut down on those things where possible and not crack whenever a luxury item that you don't need gets released. Because what you're doing right now is no different than the "out of sight, out of mind" shit that everyone was doing during WWII atrocities.
It's the same with people constantly complaining about Twitter or Youtube or whatever while still using those platforms, and not for work but just to bitch about the platforms. Like, you realize they have no incentive to change when you're creating content for them as a result of these conflicting views, right? As cringey as Wil Wheaton is, he actually will put his money where his mouth is and stop using Twitter in protest. Not a "day of silence" or whatever the fuck it was a year or two ago, but just a flat out boycott.
That goes for all the people that will say "a video game isn't as important as human rights" while buying the next "king of conflict minerals" Nintendo console, or picking and choosing which THQ published/distributed game (so like all of them in Europe) you deem worthy of not being boycotted despite the money going all to the same place. If you can give all that up to make a point, then you have my respect, but 99% of you will crack like the insufferable hypocrites that you are.
