• TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Idk Bezos, maybe in order to help the 'least affluent' you should just let them fucking unionize? But no, that would contradict this 'benevolent oligarch' shtick you've got going.

    • Quimby [any, any]
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      3 years ago

      or give them a mere half of his money. he could give the poor a hundred billion and still have a hundred billion. money is so dumb.

      • UlyssesT
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        17 days ago

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        • Quimby [any, any]
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          3 years ago

          indeed. a "mere" single billion is still more than anyone could spend in many lifetimes, unless you "cheat" by buying a football team or something. even 10 million is an amount of wealth that is absolutely incomprehensible to most people. 1 million is a pipe dream for many, though now we're in a range that includes 20-25% of Americans.

          The way wealth scales under capitalism is absolutely insane. well beyond our ability to really internalize/conceptualize.

          • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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            3 years ago

            10 million is an amount of wealth that is absolutely incomprehensible to most people.

            10 million is also "Retiring with some comfort at 65" for maybe 10 Americans, but probably fewer given current rising prices on everything.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Dude charges money for his precious "Democracy Dies in Darkness" news mouthpiece. He has a paywall for his propaganda rag. What the fuck? Billionaires can't even do yellow journalism right.