https://hexbear.net/comment/3783915

Just a suggestion to come dunk on this asshole lol

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    • TerminalEncounter [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      Would you rather get 250K or one meal with genius billionaires Musk, Bezos and Buffet? I know I'd take the meal

    • Pandantic [they/them]@midwest.social
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      1 year ago

      That would have paid off my student loans and then some left. I spent 11 years paying them, and the amount only increased. I’m lucky to have the benefit of getting public employee loan forgiveness, but if I couldn’t have paid it off, I would have either kept getting further into debt or paid back triple my loan just to have it forgiven…in another 10 years. So, yeah, 250k could have saved me money, AND kept a non-public employee me from needing to sell my soul and all my assets to the huge banks.

  • ChaosMaterialist [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    The Company Value Understander has LOGGED ON

    expert-shapiro

    Their wealth is based on the value of the company which is truly arbitrary. ... It's all made up. very-intelligent

      • Melonius [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        The value of the stock isn't really in the cash value, but the company's tech, contracts, distribution network, and workers.

        If all the employees quit tomorrow, he'd still be unfathomably wealthy from other sources, but the stock price would be quite a bit lower. I wouldn't call that "arbitrary" regardless of hundreds of acronyms you can slap on a stock chart (P/E is nearly meaningless because of accounting rules)

        My thoughts of your point though - whatever the share price is it will always be too far out of reach for the employees to gain ownership of their own place of work. Whether its worth 1.5 trillion or 20 billion is a little silly to think about for any single person.

      • ChaosMaterialist [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Irrational Exuberance is not the same as random nor arbitrary in the sense OP is using it. OP suggests that company values are conjured out of thin air, which both Marx and Buffet would laugh out of the room.

  • ElGosso [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO SAY IT hst-gun DUNK TANK POSTS GO IN THE DUNK TANK

  • Infamousblt [any]
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    1 year ago

    I am significantly wealthier than the average person by basically any metric of average that would matter and 250k would be absolutely life changing for me. 25k would be absolutely life changing for me. In what universe is 250k not a significant amount of money except in the ultra wealthy capitalist hellsphere

  • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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    1 year ago

    One of the absolute worst, annoying things about wealthy people is their incessant need to deflect and be like “oh you think we’re rich??? You should see the robertsons at our country club now theyre rich! We only have one lake house, they have a lake house and a cabin in Aspen!”

    • PKMKII [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      Conversely, this is why they don’t understand how the impoverished life because they’re used to seeing 0.5 percenters as the really rich people and never meaningfully interact with anyone outside of the top 10%. Thus we get gems like Romney’s classic “just borrow a million from your parents to start a business” because in their realm the only people who aren’t making 1 percenter money are the kids of rich people whose careers haven’t settled yet.

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    1 year ago

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  • buh [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    Their wealth is based on the value of the company which is truly arbitary

    no labor involved, just the invisible hand drawing a line going up joker-troll

  • barrbaric [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Median net worth of an American FAMILY is $121,760.

    For under 35s, the median is $14k.

    This person goes in the fucking :pit:

    • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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      1 year ago

      How much of that $14k number is indicative of collective downward mobility and how much is just the result of generational wealth taking time to propagate?

      • SerLava [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        A lot of it. Boomers had literally 5 times the money when they were the age Millennials are now

  • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]M
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    1 year ago

    Yeah no. Even in the richest countries on the planet like Monaco and Liechtenstein, that's still more than double the extremely skewed medium income.

    In the US, depending on which numbers you use, that's either five or eight years income for the average household.

    • SuperNovaCouchGuy2 [any]
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      1 year ago

      "Akshually Amazon no dividends so it hasn't turned a profit lol muh commies owned"

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    10 days ago

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  • meth_dragon [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    ITT bunch of nepo babies pretending they're not

    just admit it cowards 250 large might be a lot to the average person but its chump change to the average hexbear

    • eatmyass
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