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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: TheFakeSunRa] 1
#26484644 - 02/14/20 03:35 AM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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TheFakeSunRa said: Rich people who let other people do the physical labor are lazy by literal definition. That’s why people like Bezos need to be re-educated in forced labor camps to give him the opportunity to understand how his business functions. Naturally people who don’t work but instead profit off of others sweat and toil find ways to convince themselves that this horrible injustice is someone how just. That’s why we need to re-evaluate the revolutions in China and Russia. Unlike the American service industry their gulags served a moral purpose.
That's all crazy talk. All of it. The entire quote.
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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: susurrador] 2
#26484681 - 02/14/20 04:42 AM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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What’s crazy is tens of millions of Americans working their asses off and still not being able to make ends meet and on top of that instead of rejecting the insanity and blatant unfairness of their situation they create wild justifications for why it’s ok for others to have billions when their best efforts are only leading to the opportunity to die in debt probably from a treatable disease where treatment was denied simply because of greed. When people can justify the brutal and heartless greed and cruelty of American capitalism even in the face of the straightforward numbers like the ones in this thread it makes it easy to understand why they need to be re-educated through actual experience rather than rhetoric. Obviously, explaining the situation is ineffectual so the next step is a revolution. And 1% cannot stop 99% so the rich can either accept that they need to give up their wealth and pay their fair share or come up on the shit end of an angry violent revolution. And history teaches us that when wealth gaps hit these kinds of numbers the revolution is surprising and swift.
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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: TheFakeSunRa]
#26484694 - 02/14/20 05:09 AM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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It sounds like tens of millions of Americans have poor spending tendencies.
Do you realize if we split Jeff's $127B equally amongst all 331 million Americans... we'd all get about $380 a piece?
Is that what you're after? The $380?
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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: susurrador]
#26484883 - 02/14/20 07:39 AM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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susurrador said: These are all silly questions.
Go start a business and then try to figure out at what point you don't deserve to reap the harvest from your hard work. It doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense in the tens, hundreds, thousands, millions, billions, or trillions of dollars ranges. The amount of money makes no difference.
But they are not silly. AND the amount of money does make a difference to those workers. He can still reap billions while paying a decent wage that will help families with the prices of goods and food and gas these days, it's quite simple really.
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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: susurrador] 1
#26484894 - 02/14/20 07:43 AM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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susurrador said: It sounds like tens of millions of Americans have poor spending tendencies.
Do you realize if we split Jeff's $127B equally amongst all 331 million Americans... we'd all get about $380 a piece?
Is that what you're after? The $380?
Stop blaming poor people.
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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: christopera]
#26484918 - 02/14/20 08:03 AM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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A system where the majority are struggling while the richest few prosper is dysfunctional by definition. The system’s (supposed) purpose is the wellbeing of the majority. It’s impossible to reconcile this simple fact with the idea of the free market, except by saying that there should be exceptions to free market rules. It’s obv the only way to have both prosperity and a free market.
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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: feldman114]
#26484924 - 02/14/20 08:10 AM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Well let's just look at the example given by susurrador.
It's dumb as shit to divide Bezo's wealth among all of our citizens, because like 20% of the population are children. It's also dumb as fuck, because nobody wants his wealth redistributed. What people want is for Amazon employees to be able to maintain a decent quality of life. So, we should divide up his wealth and give it to his employees, of which there are 750,000. That means each employee would get a 169,000 pay raise. Hmmmm. You mean Bezo's can't pay his people a decent wage, but he literally earns 16,900 off each one of them. It's hard to ignore that kind of inequality, and quite frankly, it should be illegal.
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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: christopera]
#26484941 - 02/14/20 08:24 AM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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The majority of Americans are not struggling.
The majority of Americans are fat.
Edit- if the majority of Americans are struggling, it is probably because they're fat.
Edited by susurrador (02/14/20 08:32 AM)
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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: susurrador]
#26484956 - 02/14/20 08:34 AM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Yeah, right, you’re not a troll at all
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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: feldman114]
#26484959 - 02/14/20 08:37 AM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Does it not make sense how you cannot have a population struggling with real poverty that is simultaneously struggling with obesity?
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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: feldman114]
#26484962 - 02/14/20 08:40 AM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Americans are fat, but not nearly as fat as Bezo's wallet.
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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: susurrador]
#26484965 - 02/14/20 08:41 AM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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susurrador said: Does it not make sense how you cannot have a population struggling with real poverty that is simultaneously struggling with obesity?
It would absolutely make sense if you had a fucking clue what you were talking about.
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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: christopera]
#26484966 - 02/14/20 08:43 AM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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christopera said:
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susurrador said: Does it not make sense how you cannot have a population struggling with real poverty that is simultaneously struggling with obesity?
It would absolutely make sense if you had a fucking clue what you were talking about.
Have you read any of this thread?
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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: susurrador]
#26484976 - 02/14/20 08:49 AM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Yep, and I posted in it a few times.
You've equated obesity to wealth. That's a false equivalence to say the least.
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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: christopera]
#26484984 - 02/14/20 08:54 AM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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I've made the observation and presented the question- that if the majority of Americans are in financial distress of any type... how is it that they're simultaneously able to overfeed themselves?
Sounds more like a time of abundance to me.
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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: christopera]
#26484986 - 02/14/20 08:54 AM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Stating that most Americans are obese is plain lazy. What, you don’t have 5 seconds to google your BS before blurting it out? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_the_United_States#Sex
Also, fat shaming is so 2010. And I’m sure you’re a supermodel
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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: susurrador]
#26484992 - 02/14/20 08:57 AM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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susurrador said: I've made the observation and presented the question- that if the majority of Americans are in financial distress of any type... how is it that they're simultaneously able to overfeed themselves?
Sounds more like a time of abundance to me.
And you are wrong. It's a childish theory.
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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: susurrador]
#26484997 - 02/14/20 09:00 AM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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susurrador said: It sounds like tens of millions of Americans have poor spending tendencies.
Do you realize if we split Jeff's $127B equally amongst all 331 million Americans... we'd all get about $380 a piece?
Is that what you're after? The $380?
We're after what he owes...
And all the other multi billion dollar companies
Those 380s start to add up each year
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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: feldman114]
#26484998 - 02/14/20 09:02 AM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Pardon me, 39.8% of Americans were obese in 2015 and 2016 according to that link. Something tells me the majority is still overweight.
Either way- signs of plenty.
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Re: Jeff Bezos' estimated personal wealth, as of this morning, is about $129,500,000,000.00 [Re: susurrador]
#26485004 - 02/14/20 09:06 AM (3 years, 11 months ago) |
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Listen, people are fat because the food they can afford is fucking loaded with chems! The really good "organic" food or just plain fresh veggies and meat cost too much, it's a sick catch 22 for a lot of people. Now, I believe people shouldn't have so many kids if not well off with enough money to raise them, but it seems like the poorest people have the most kids. AND, the people in charge right now want to get rid of abortion rights and have made it hard for poor people to get state health care (which the really wealthy refuse to pay for) and then they don't want to take care of the kids they force the people to have, it's a sickening game. Since you're throwing in random shit, think about all that.
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