Many leftist activist YouTubers are repeating the leftist doctrine that super-rich millionaires are evil, corrupt, greedy and exploitative, and that they should be taxed to oblivion until there are no millionaires.
Some of the biggest such YouTubers are actually millionaires themselves (yes, it is actually possible to become a millionaire by simply making YouTube videos, as incredible as that might sound.)
This kind of rhetoric is not exclusive to YouTube millionaires either, as some other such rich people who have been brainwashed by the leftist cult are repeating the same mantras.
It's hard to guess whether these people are just spouting these talking points to virtue-signal and preach the far-leftist catechism, or whether they have an actual cognitive dissonance.
Bad cognitive dissonance is quite common in the American far left, such as when they are demanding to "abolish the police" but will genuinely call 911 when they feel being in danger with zero self-awareness, quite clearly not realizing that the "police" they are protesting and want to completely abolish is the exact same "police" that will be dispatched if they call 911. There's a bad cognitive dissonance where they don't stop to think about that fact, and in their confused minds they treat those two groups of "police" as if they were completely different and separate.
In the case of millionaires attacking millionaires and promoting their extinction by taxing, it's harder to distinguish whether it's just performative and they don't actually believe it to ever happen (and thus feel confident that they can spout the rhetoric safely, as their own wealth is not actually in danger), or whether they are having yet another cognitive dissonance moment where they don't realize that they themselves belong to that very group that they want eradicated.
I wouldn't be surprised that if some American state were to tax the millionaires out of existence, these millionaire leftist activists in that state would be shocked and would, for all intents and purposes, be crying in social media "I didn't mean me! I'm not evil! I meant those other actually evil millionaires, not me!" Most of them would likely move to another state to escape the taxes (completely ignoring how hypocritical that would be, obviously.)
It's the same as when they support far-leftist riots and looting, but are then shocked when their own businesses and property gets looted and vandalized. "Why are you attacking me? I'm on your side!"
I suppose that it's lucky from their perspective that the taxing-to-non-existence of millionaires is very unlikely to happen in practice.
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