Mister Coffee has another whine
Mister Coffee, again, defending the honor of billionaires.
Howard Schultz: "We shouldn't get to a place where there are people yelling from the rafters that because you have been successful, you are a bad person and we're going to be punitive to you. That's, to me, the antithesis of the spirit of the country." pic.twitter.com/73to3c0Tee
— The Hill (@thehill) February 2, 2019
It’s interesting that he thinks “the spirit of the country” has something to do with being nice (grateful? subservient? flattering?) to rich people. It’s interesting that he apparently doesn’t give the tiniest of shits about the millions of people in the country who struggle to keep from going under, and dragging their children with them. He doesn’t seem to be even aware that “the spirit of the country” seems all too comfortable with letting people go under because they get sick, because they lose a job, because they work two jobs and still can’t make rent, because they tried to acquire some higher education and got overwhelmed by debt, because they got injured on the jobs and then got addicted to opioids, because their job disappeared when the company moved to Mexico or outsourced the work to China. Our biggest problems here have nothing to do with how much we bow and scrape to rich people, and Mister Coffee’s egotistical concern with such a thing is fucking contemptible.
You’re assuming he actually knows the meaning of the word “antithesis”.
Seriously, the reality is that everyone fawns over billionaires. There are a handful of people pointing out that billionaires got where they are on the backs of other people who do all the work for them for peanuts (and yes, that includes Starbucks – I doubt those baristas are raking in the cash). The news dutifully reports those opinions, but they spend much more time aggrandizing the rich, making the rich comfortable, and in many ways, making them richer.
Yes, some of those people show up at the political speeches given by rich people who think they should be running the country. That’s called democracy. That’s called freedom. The right to hear what those cretins are saying, and the right to doubt it, and the right to question it, to challenge them to demonstrate why we should hand so much power to them, to allow them to lead the most heavily armed country in the world.