In the photo is Bob Dean Jr, a multimillionaire who owned 7 nursing homes in New Orleans. Instead of using income on maintenance and evacuation preparation, he stole the money for himself. When Hurricane Ida hit in 2021, Dean couldn’t safely evacuate residents and instead moved them all into a former pesticide warehouse. 850 elderly people were forced to live in a hot, leaking, cramped warehouse and ride out the storm. They slept on wet mattresses from the flood water crying in their own waste. There wasn’t enough medicine, food, the generators had broken. Dean ignored complaints from his staff and as a result 5 of his residents died. He was found guilty of tax fraud and cruelty to the elderly. His defense team tried to argue leniency because Dean was 70 years old. Fuck you, whoever said that.

This is an extreme example but not at all a unique issue for nursing home mismanagement and abuse. 70 percent of nursing homes are owned by private entities with more opportunities to misuse funding and scam their residents. It’s not uncommon that abuse occurs on an in person level with nurses and staff. There’s hundreds of stories of nurses hitting patients, yelling at them, and stealing money or objects. Many are bedridden or have Alzheimer’s with little voice to speak up against abuse. However, just as often can abuse occur from neglect. I read just as many cases of well meaning staff who were under trained and overworked, their bosses ignoring complaints about health and safety.

Here in my home state of Georgia , nursing home owner Kent Womack was charged for not having AC at his building. During the summer it reached 100 degrees inside the building, the smell and temperature was so bad that residents were throwing up from it. Kent’s office had the AC on blast though. Trump recently pardoned nursing home magnate Joseph Schwartz, owner of skyline that operated around 100 nursing homes. Joseph’s tax fraud and improper maintenance of his buildings caused 14 of them to be close, kicking residents out without proper notice. While his company went under, Joseph stole millions of dollars from his employees, withholding their pay checks. Joseph paid lobbyist Jacob Wohl to convince Trump to give him a pardon.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/23/nursing-home-owner-neglect-hurricane-ida-louisiana

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK98786/

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/georgia-nursing-home-owner-jailed-after-residents-lived-without-ac-years-sheriff-says/BFYACLNUNZBTVONWXWGBFRD22M/?outputType=amp

https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/former-owner-collapsed-nursing-home-empire-sentenced-36-months-imprisonment-38-million

https://inequality.org/article/private-equity-is-taking-over-nursing-homes/

"Savings unfortunately are lazy" - so saving is bad and therefore we are allowed to take your savings a corrupt the system even more. This is going out of control.

And poof, your "money" is gone : r/LateStageCapitalism

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026/08/19/gandalf-protest-peter-thiel-house/

Will the rich ever catch a break that isn't tax related? Guest contributor Barbara Cochring doesn't think so in this op-ed calling for collective action against the tyranny of the working class.

Read her diatribe exclusively at The Serving Times: https://theservingtimes.beehiiv.com/p/sweet-the-rich

Try to imagine your someone that actually matters like a billionaire, bibi, a corporation, a church, putin pop....

He has taken pay to play to new heights.

Unlimited pardons for the rich

He has no brain, no shame, no guilt

You bring gold, hes sold

Do dumbocrats even know how America works? This is capitalism folks, capital matters, not you. Don't worry folks, we can vote our way out of this one. We'll have better choices to choose from next time. Just keep voting and praying, things will get better. If voting made a difference they wouldn't let you do it. Trump is a symptom of the system, he is not the problem folks. He is the best capitalist in America because that's the name of the game. The system isn't for you, it owns you like the farm animal you are and Trump is your rodeo clown. Keep laughing and blaming him as he and his buddies walk away with the bag. Dem blame rep, rep blame dem- everyone of you gets to go for a ride and the house wins and wins. Keep blaming the Don, the best mafia boss this generation has ever seen. The biggest crime family in history. The smartest politician in America, the best we've ever seen. And we see alot of him. Even his haters are fans since he captures their attention. Politicians lie, Trump is the best liar yet. Can't wait to see who they roll out next. Don't forget to vote folks, it'll work next time. We promise

Hahahaha

Israel sends its regards

French left-wing politician Mélenchon makes a room full of CEOs laugh when he calls for raising workers' incomes. They fall silent when he says that if they don't, there will be a recession.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9vNsUU8mhgU

They are so out of touch.

This shows just how cosy billionaires are with the current US adminstration as they brag in public about their corruption and how funny it is to exploit the working class

Her name is Suzanne Lambert and they keep deleting her videos so please keep watching and sharing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jeczi9b5BuE

Federal corporate political spending in the 2026 midterm elections has reached an unprecedented $646 million – a 40% increase over the 2024 presidential election, the previous record-breaking year, when corporations spent $461 million.

https://www.citizen.org/article/corporate-money-2026-midterms-surges-to-650-million/

I 24F am unemployed, I also have autism and a history of serious mental health issues that make it difficult for me to find and keep a decent paying job. Despite having a B.S. in childhood education the highest paying job I’ve ever had was as an assistant pre school teacher making $18 an hour. I lost my last job around 3 months ago and have been draining through my savings to survive since then. I live in a roach infested apartment and I can barely sleep at night because I’m terrified that bugs are crawling on me at night while I’m sleeping because one evening I was laying in bed when I glanced to the left and saw a house centipede sitting on my shoulder.

Literally just yesterday the apartment complex I live in was hosting a charity event that supplies poor people in the community with a bag of free groceries and I spend two hours waiting in line to get a free bag of food because I literally can barely afford to feed myself. Furthermore, my credit cards balance is probably higher than $3,000 at this point, I don’t even know, I’m too scared to even check. My mental health is progressively getting worse and I barely even feel motivated to continue trying to find a job anymore because quite frankly I don’t see a point in working myself to death to make a billionaire richer just be living like this.

The worst part is that the fact that I know they have more than enough money to pay me a living wage, they just choose not to because if they did, then they’d be profiting less off of my labor and I guess paying me a living wage just isn’t nearly as important to them as collecting the absolute highest amount of profit they can from their business. Welcome to late stage capitalism! I went to college, chose a safe practical job that I was told would guarantee me the ability to make a decent living and now I’m fucked because I have severe social anxiety and no people skills. Thank you America!

Watch “Inside” and “Inside Outtakes” and prove me wrong. He may be extraterrestrial, which I reserve to those that understand shit we don’t until we learn it from others.

The average American is taxed 20-30% of their pay. That money seems to go to the wealthy. Example contracts to arms manufacturers, Elon Musk, Trump himself.

So why do we have to support the wealthy and there wars when most Americans are against the idea?

If you make 100,000 a year that’s almost 30,000$. Taken by the government to spend on anything but the people that gave it to them.

Then add in local sales tax, high gas prices, energy price increases, health insurance, prices skyrocketing on life essentials.

How much do they plan on taking from us before we have no choice but to revolt.

Taxation with our representation. No one voted to give there money to Trump, Musk, and most are against wars.

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/18E15Q8mh3/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Does anyone have insider knowledge about these underground bunkers and cities these billionaires are building ? I’m wondering why and what exactly they are anticipating is going to happen that they need them ?

Few people accumulating unlimited wealth and hoarding assets while consuming much more resources than regular people, are the biggest threat to humanity. They control politics and are responsible for blocking sustainable economy. Irreversibel damage has already been done by this group of people. To save what‘s left, power in form of money has to be taken away. An additional benefit is the cashflow that can be used to cleanup the environment, transform urban areas to green spaces, stop deforestation, start forestation, finance recycling systems in every country, sponsor sustainable technologies and most importantly it could maybe block the endlees greed which currently seems to grow the bigger the accumulated wealth gets.

Edit: while some might say, this is a political post, I would argue that it‘s more about social behaviour and economic systems. Sure, political decisions are required to take any action, but I‘m more interested in the personal opinion of ordinary people regarding wealth and economics.

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/chinas-former-richest-man-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-and-stripped-of-billions-3400308/

One in six billionaires in China are under investigation, in prison or have suffered financial ruin through crackdowns on their shady business practices, according to the Communist-Party organ Global Times.

During the past six years the number of China’s dollar billionaires (persons with a personal net worth over $1 bil.) has surged from 15 to over 250. But over 40 of them have lost their fortunes, their freedoms or both — or are on their way to losing them — as Beijing becomes tougher on those who flaunt anti-corruption laws.

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Prosecuting U.S. billionaires or ultra-wealthy executives is rare. High-profile cases include tech billionaire Robert Brockman's $2 billion tax fraud indictment and crypto founder Sam Bankman-Fried's 25-year sentence for multi-billion-dollar fraud.

Why Prosecutions are Rare

Complex Offshore Structures: Ultra-wealthy defendants often use layered trusts, shell companies, and encrypted records that make proving criminal intent difficult.

Civil Settlements: Many high-value tax or regulatory infractions are resolved through massive civil fines rather than criminal trials.

Legal Resources: Billionaires can assemble large defense teams to challenge federal evidence and prolong litigation.

The US currently has 989 billionaires… notice that it’s not the crime that makes it rare to prosecute… it’s the unfair advantage our system allows them to have

https://goldsea.com/article_details/17-of-china-s-billionaires-under-probe-or-in-prison

Wherever the topic of a wealth tax comes up the neoliberal media is quick to spin it as unworkable due to the problem of capital flight, and we never hear anyone seriously push back on this point. At best a wealth tax advocate might suggest setting the tax so low that the rich will pay it voluntarily.

I’m convinced they intentionally promote a straw man version of wealth tax to discredit the idea and to ensure that if one ever does get enacted it will be low and easy to avoid.

The problem of capital flight is quite easy to avoid if you actually try. The US levies income tax on all citizens, not just those who reside within the country, but nobody ever suggests this as a solution to the problem of capital flight.

It makes the tax impossible to avoid legally, and doesn’t disincentivise foreign investment.

I’m sure someone will say that the rich will just renounce their citizenship, but there’s a simple solution to that problem - the state can just say no. Once a tax citizen, always a tax citizens, and your children inherit that status automatically.

What about people who flee and refuse to come back? Simple, try them for tax evasion in a tribunal system where they can’t buy better representation. Create a rule that they have to attend in person or they lose by default. The minimum sentence is the death penalty, but it will be cancelled if they just pay up. Once the judgement is in the government sends assassins or puts a bounty on their head.

Since we don’t need to depend on the rich paying voluntarily we can set the rate of the wealth tax at a high enough level for it to actually be useful. Say 10-20%.

Why do we never hear this steel man wealth tax mentioned by the neoliberal media?

America’s staggering wealth divide creates a profound moral contradiction: while billionaires accumulate unprecedented fortunes, life-saving research for diseases like cancer and dementia is forced to rely on public donations and charity drives.

Instead of deploying the nation's immense wealth toward public health, ordinary families are tasked with funding medical breakthroughs. Relying on private philanthropy leaves vital scientific research underfunded and unstable, treating essential human health as a charitable afterthought rather than a national priority.

Why is it that in a country with such extraordinary private wealth, the race to cure humanity’s most devastating diseases is still left to pass the hat?

In order for billionaires to gain wealth they have to harm others. It’s not possible to gain that kind of wealth destroying others.

The wealthiest are the most undesirable type of people. People who cannot live in a society without harming others.

They did not earn their wealth through hard word, intelligence.
There money had been passed down.

There is no billionaire that can be considered ethical. The fact that in order to gain that kind of wealth they have to harm others shows that.

Billionaires should not be n a society.
They destroy any equity, fairness.

We see them buying of our politicians.
We see that congress has bowed to them.
Nothing can get better with extreme wealth.

We need to eliminate there wealth if we ever want to see basic human rights respected.