Billionaire CEO of Canada’s Shopify demands

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Billionaire CEO of Canada’s Shopify demands abolition of right to vote for broad sections of the population: “Why did a $154 billion CEO just endorse stripping most Americans of their democratic rights, and taking us back to the 19th century?”

Social media comments by Tobias Lütke, the right-wing CEO of the Canadian online shopping site Shopify, in which the multi-billionaire attacks universal suffrage have been met with outrage in Canada and internationally.

Billionaire CEO of Canada’s Shopify demands abolition of right to vote for broad sections of the population

Lütke declared that voting rights should be stripped from those whom he termed “dependents”—based on their payment of income tax. This would disenfranchise wide swaths of workers on low wages, elderly pensioners, the unemployed, students and the infirm.

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