Tom Steyer is a really popular candidate in California right now, and that's not a good thing.
Steyer is the "Progressive Billionaire" running in the Democratic primary for California's governor. He has spent the most money on his campaign, mostly out of his own pockets, while claiming he is "giving away" his wealth.
But he seems to say all the right things. He insists on taxing the rich, he calls for single-payer healthcare, he claims he wants paid childcare.
But when asked in an interview to respond to AOC's comment that "You do not MAKE a Billion dollars. You TAKE a billion dollars," he reveals his true colors.
California has the 5th largest economy in the world. When compared to countries, California alone stands in the top 5. And that is where he immediately zones in. He talks about how California "makes" businesses and jobs. He talks about how he made a company and sold it 14 years ago and is a billionaire today. And his justification is that billionaires make jobs.
But what kind of jobs are they making, Tom? Are they making jobs that actually benefit people? Are they making jobs that promote well being in society? As a matter of fact, why are you pushing for government sponsored Child Care when the need for child care is a direct result of excessive work demands? Why are you protecting the GDP growth of California when it directly correlates with the growing inequality and poverty in California?
Because he isn't progressive. He's another half-assed neoliberal who still wants to exploit workers. Look at his business that he points towards for making him all this money: a hedgefund.
Hedgefunds don't provide medical care.
Hedgefunds don't provide food.
Hedgefunds don't make goods and services affordable or available
In fact, Hedgefunds do the opposite. They shuffle around fake money in the form of "assets" basically the template for what Crypto is. Their only purpose is to make rich people richer, and when they do that successfully, by extracting value from other sectors of the economy, they become worth a billion dollars.
Hedgefunds and private equity services and corporations not providing any real value to society but keep the wheels of capitalism turning is ass-backwards to what actual progressivism means.
I'm tired of these half-ass neoliberals. I absolutely will not be voting for this. Taxing the rich is the CONSERVATIVE position at this point. We should prioritize A FUNCTIONING SOCIETY.
That's where I am not playing this game.
He never answers the question in regards to AOC, never comments on how many hours those jobs demanded to make the business worth a billion dollars. How many people injured, their bodies broken, their lives wasted? How many people lost so that you could win? How many people lived hand to mouth while you raged over record profits? How was the money from the private prisons that actually forced prisoners into slave labor? Him walking away from those contracts after he got his bag is evidence enough to how he embodies the very things progressives are against.
Dodging that statement shows he is more interested in owning our spreadsheets than he is actually helping anyone. A hedgefund is a useless business that does nothing for working class people. We don't need these businesses to make jobs, we need societies that use work explicitly good for the community alone.
Nothing is infinite, even stars die, and chasing those growing numbers will kill us all.
Tom Steyer's stance on the environment, on social issues, on fiscal concerns are all a lie
You cannot be in good faith without acknowledging that the economic of growth coming out of California directly correlates to the inequality and poverty INSIDE California.
This man is like all billionaires: a charlatan.
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