The Archivist
14 February 2022 · 20:13 UTC

The government relentlessly attacks super because it’s maybe an even greater threat to them than unions. VAST…

The government relentlessly attacks super because it’s maybe an even greater threat to them than unions. VAST amounts of the nation’s wealth is now in super funds. And we - me and you - own those. /1 #auspol https://t.co/owb063cMgA
Post 2 of 4 · 14 February 2022 · 20:13 UTC
This is unprecedented in history, the massive shift in wealth to working people. Paul Keating designed super to do this, and is one of the few to still see the politics of doing it. The LNP see it, it terrifies them. The history of all politics is a tiny handful of wealthy…/2
Post 3 of 4 · 14 February 2022 · 20:13 UTC
…people finding ways to convince everybody else that their poverty, relative to them, is the natural state of things. They’re vastly outnumbered, and they know it. As Nick Hanauer always says, they lose sleep at the thought of the [pitchforks’ coming for them. /3
Post 4 of 4 · 14 February 2022 · 20:13 UTC
The LNP do everything they can to facilitate the gorging at the super feast by the financial industry, some of its top supporters, and to cripple everything that allows the will of the shareholders (me and you) to be expressed politically. Right now, they’re losing. /end

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