You hate communism and socialism?

 

They probably wouldn't need to do that if they just paid their taxes. But then they probably wouldn't be billionaires then.

They call anything having to do with improving the lives of the poor and working class communism.

If their workers are paid better, then they aren't worried about going homeless to strike for reasons other than pay or as desperate to stay, as if this business is paying a fair wage then other businesses will have to or they won't be able to compete. They will also have more disposable income to purchase assets and invest - assets and investments that the billionaires want themselves.

The reason they don't pay a fair wage isn't really about money, it's about control.

Dumbing down the public to keep the masses exploitable and non-threatening is just the cost of doing business.

Because the type of communism Marx actually wrote about hasn’t even happened yet; but the conditions that theoretically could make people more favorable towards it are playing out.

In theory it’s supposed to go feudalism> capitalism (necessary to develop technology and economy that leads to socialism) > contradictions of capitalism lead to its demise and a proletariat overthrow of the capitalist system > socialism > communism where the state ultimately “withers away” and class distinctions disappear.

The type of authoritarian dictatorships that people associate with communism are understandably reviled, but authoritarianism was never part of the communism that Marx theorized.

I’m not saying a communist utopia is even possible, but I think what is possible is that capitalism might not work forever before it sinks under the weight of its own issues. Billionaires want capitalism to feel inevitable and impossible to criticize, even when it’s failing everyone else.