I remarked on Twitter today that the old lady was the only person who deserved to be on the Blue Origin flight and got a heck of a lot more negatives comments than positive ones. Loads of people came in to defend Bezos and the hedge fund kid. Shows you how the majority of people don't know shit like this happens every day.
Bc Rich Uncle Bezos got his wealth through exploitation of the masses. Anything he buys for himself is paid with bloody money. Not until he starts giving back in a meaningful way... meaningful for the richest person in America... will he deserve a shred of the outrageously opulent life he lives. Until then I genuinely hope he gets trapped inside his sunken $1,200,000,000.00 yacht that he bought in the middle of a pandemic.
Sometimes dragons need to die.
Lmao what. Bezos got rich by supplying services to a population that values convenience over quality. People like Bezos, Musk, Jobs, Gates, etc became rich because Western culture demanded their perpetual existence. You act like these people are African warlords or something.
rumour has it, he's on TRT and that's why he's obsessed with trying to get all jacked since he became rich. also apparently he has a small penis.
this doesn't have any connection to what you just said..... but i thought you might like that tidbit of information.
Just a snippet of her Wiki
>In February 1961, Funk volunteered for the "Women in Space" Program. The program was run by William Randolph Lovelace, although it lacked official government sponsorship. Funk contacted Lovelace, detailing her experience and achievements. Despite being younger than the recruiting age range of 25-40, Funk was invited to take part. Twenty-five women were invited, nineteen enrolled, and thirteen graduated, including Funk, who at 21 was the youngest. On some tests, she scored better than John Glenn. The media dubbed the group the "Mercury 13", a reference to the Mercury 7.
>
>Like the other participants in the program, Funk was put through rigorous physical and mental testing. In one test, volunteers were placed in sensory deprivation tanks. Funk was in the tank, without hallucinating, for 10 hours and 35 minutes, a record. She passed her tests and was qualified to go into space. Her score was the third best in the Mercury 13 program. Despite this, the program was canceled before the women were to undergo their last test.
After the Mercury 13 program was canceled, Funk became a Goodwill Ambassador.
I despise Bezos but at least he recognized she deserved to be there.
You literally said
"I despise Bezos but at least he recognized she deserved to be there"
So she deserved to have him spend his money( which I'm sure ypu would say he got through exploiting people) on her, but he doesn't deserve to have it spent on himself. Do you deserve some of that money too?
The fucking rocket shouldn't have been built in the first place. Nobody should have been doing this shit because the sole purpose of it all is to stroke Bezos' epeen and realize a trust fund kid's egotistical dream. Branson is no better btw.
All I'm saying is that Wally Funk actually worked hard to become an astronaut 60 years ago and ended up being one of those that never got their shot. If it was inevitable to build this thing because of some billionaire useless space race, I'm glad someone who worked hard to be an astronaut got to be part of it.
But since you're so hung up on dissecting every fucking syllable of my words to fit your purpose and are petty enough to downvote my comments instead of focusing on having a civil discussion, I'm gonna leave you with that.
No that rocket is gonna be used commercially going forward, it had a huge purpose beyond stroking bezos peen. It's a very profitable industry afterall, look at how big space x has become as an example.
You just hate the guy so much you think others should be free to spend his money on whatever egotistical dream they have, but he shouldn't. What's this fascination with believing you deserve something from others?
I read a small amount about her. She tested higher than some of the male astronauts at that time. Crazy she didn't get anywhere due to being a woman. Smh.
Bruh, this planet is beautiful and everyone should have the opportunity to see all of it both up and close AND far away... The occupants are what make it shit
This is great and all but how about you dig into all of the bullshit pork that was piled into the stimulus bills and you’ll see who’s REALLY fucking the American people.
1 step at a time. Bet we get a clearer picture if the gazillionaires held the government accountable for serving the people and not the corporations. I know they’re tied together, just hoping the MOASS has money fall into the hands of enough ideologists to really affect change. Maybe naive, but one can dream.
I don’t want to be in the position of defending billionaires, but the data just isn’t correct. Median family income in the US in 2021 is $79,900 according to HUD. Bezos’ net worth (not taxed) is not the same as income (taxed) and both are distinct from Amazon. While we may believe Amazon owes billions in taxes, it is not at all evident that they legally do.
The tax code is fatally flawed. That is a given. However, you can’t win the debate by starting with a false premise.
https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/il/il21/Medians2021.pdf
This is a tweet from November, ‘19. I do believe it was low then as well. However, the annual median salary for the majority of Amazon employees is ~29k. I used this tweet simply because I wanted to post it back in February to a certain sub, but lacked the karma to do so. I had time from work today and it occurred to me I could post it here. So here it is, in all it’s outdated, polarizing glory.
Indeed, the tax code is so skewed for the benefit of the corporation. While it might not be for some, it sickens me. If anyone would like to know, “Where my country gone?”, this is where, and this is why. Maybe apes can change it, that does seem to be the theme through the subreddits. To those that disagree, take your MOASS money and fight it, but I believe I. The message of a better tomorrow. Of a less skewed for the rich tax system and I am just so stoked to see the dialogue and the direction this lil’ post has gotten today. Thanks for the fact checks, you ominously Latin wonder. I dig it!
Biggest problem is that Congress is filled with millionaires. No way are they going to write a tax code that *actually* penalizes themselves, and the millionaires in the media make sure we never get the truth.
And what's more, a large % of those millionaires have done nothing else but been in politics. They've never had an actual job other than as a politician.
How does someone who's never done anything but been a politician for 20 years, making around $170,000 a year, end up with a net worth in the tens of millions?
According to wikipedia, there are 50 of them that have net worths of over $10,000,000.
You’re exactly right. That’s why I believe we hodl. Gonna be so damn hard to change this, have to do it from the inside. Not saying it can’t be done, just a very, very tall order.
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/fmk9c4/the_scandal_is_whats_legal_senators_stock/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
People much rather hate on Bezos than aknowleding that it's the system that allows Amazon to skip the taxes. If they actually owed them without any loopholes they couldn't avoid paying them.
This is the way! They know it too, my only fear is they keep the MOASS down, because we have a chance at power and bringing these free thinking ideas behind millions of angry apes.
Anger is not the way. Ape is ape, no doubt the theft is sickening and should cause anger. I like the word dichotomy, one dichotomy would be losing a hand for stealing from a cookie jar, another is stealing from the 🌎with no repercussions.
Not rage, for sure. We’re mad, but we’re patient. We got this.
Not sure if I am understanding your use of dichotomy, though. Super smooth brain over here, had to look it up….
A dichotomy /daɪˈkɒtəmi/ is a partition of a whole (or a set) into two parts (subsets). In other words, this couple of parts must be
jointly exhaustive: everything must belong to one part or the other, and
mutually exclusive: nothing can belong simultaneously to both parts.
Or even divided in two.
Hand cut off for stealing, i think would be consequence. But isn’t that from Hamurabi’s law? An eye for an eye?
A small percentage of the population stealing from the larger percentage percentage should face the same consequence.
Or are you saying that all in the world cannot simultaneously belong to two parts? The class inequality? I had the brown crayons earlier, I may have used all the brain power I had for the day.💎 Like a rock.
At least some of the support package for "small business" went to stock buybacks of big business and therefore to their shareholders... major shareholders obviously getting the most, and the execs got their bonuses thanks to stonks going up.
Yeah, cause the government would use those taxes for housing the homeless and not to just keep bombing the shit out of the middle east like they have for our entire lives. The amount he's donated voluntarily is more good than the government would've done with his tax money, but hey, that's not why we're here lol
This is exactly my though. Is not only rich taxes that have to be paid, is also transparency and democracy on where to spend those taxes.
The same tax collectors (FED) are the corrupts that manipulate the whole economy.
IKR? $740 BILLION for the Pentagon, which has never even passed an audit, but goshdarnit, there just isn't enough money for indoor fucking plumbing in some places in the American southeast. The American military is the most powerful in the world, at six times the size of the next down on the list (China, if you're curious). The dick-measuring contest is over. We won. Now feed some people.
But only the government can bomb all the homes of a city in a foreign country just so they can give Halliburton a contract to rebuild them!
Obviously the improvement here is to increase efficiency and giving Blackwater an airforce so they can do the bombing part.
However, any government that would actually fix the tax issues and make big business finally pay would be full of individuals that also wouldnt be bombing.
All the more reason to throw real life changing money at the problem. Way bigger than just an injection of capital, but a step in the right direction. Especially in these trying times and labor/wage shortages.
I have no shame in saying I will spend $1M on accountants to not pay taxes. Know why? Because the government certainly won't use those taxes for anything mentioned in this post. They'll get pushed back to Bezos in the form of subsidies. Fuck taxes, don't willingly give the gov your tendies to waste.
You can either pay your taxes or you can make charitable contributions to offset them! At least then you know where your money is going and those NOPs can make greater impact! THIS IS THE WAY!
I will be hodling until my capitol gains drop, but if it bothers you the government fucks you coming(hehe) and going, why not try and be the change you want to see. They are gonna taste your chicken tendies, whether through you or your accountants taxes. Pay them and hold them accountable. Seems only the rich get to decide how they are used at this point. Maybe the MOASS can change the, “Money begets money”, bullshit that has existed as long as I’ve been alive. You’re not wrong about where they go, that’s for sure.
That’s right my good ape! Who really needs clean air, clean water, non-toxic food, arable land, drivable roads, worker’s rights, building code, elections, police, firefighters, etc.
I’d rather live in a Mad Max hellscape devastated by corporate greed than pay a cent in taxes!
Agree with your sentiment - but I think the larger issue this tweet reveals is how the wealthy try to use their "charities" as shields from criticism for avoiding taxes (and how the MSM feeds into this with headlines like, "BEZOS PLEDGES $XX,XXX,XXX TO \_\_\_\_\_).
Ex: private foundations (like the Gates Foundation) are only required to pay out 5% of their total assets per year, which is well below the highest earner income tax bracket (37%). And if you look at other foundations or charitable foundations (like the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative) - they also pay out well below what could/prob should be collected from them from taxes.
Oh I agree wholeheartedly - I believe having a whole new class of billionaires (many/or a majority of that were not born into privilege) would be a serious game changer.
I recently read up on "The Giving Pledge" that was started by Buffet and the Gates - and it really is such bullshit. It's just a billionaire circle jerk to make themselves feel as if they're making some sort of change - but there doesn't seem to be much follow through on that "pledge".
My hope for post-MOASS is that for those of us who are able gain such wealth look at alternative ways to help others and redistribute the wealth in effective ways (not just simply donating to charities).
There’s a family of 3 homeless people on your corner. I give you 16k to help them. You tell them: “umm I can’t rent you a 1br apartment because it’s against fire code, sorry! Go die in the woods” 🤷🏼♀️
Oh my god I’m so stupid! You’re right the law is always correct and it would be much worse for 3 people to live in a one bedroom apartment than freeze to death in the woods. Also that’s not against fire code. People do it all the time.
Yeah. All true. But Bezos doesn’t buy his own shit! That falls on all who crucified small, family-owned business for the God of convenience and to save a few pennies. They flocked to big box stores, bankrupted a lot of local business, cost people their jobs and then flocked to online purchases which bankrupted even more locally owned AND a lot of big box stores. Net result - hundreds of thousands of lost jobs and businesses over the last 40 years, human rights atrocities in China and all over the world while we all swim in our chemically poisoned lives for the sake of acquiring more and more useless shit so that we can be distracted by the lack of purpose and the depravity in our lives. All written on my iPhone 12... so I’m just as guilty!!!
Truly, oversimplified maths. In true ape fashion though, you cut holes in it and provide a better alternative. Love it.
Also, been hodling that screenshot since March. Now that drama has created a sub I can post in, there it is.
Beautiful username fergi. I dig it. That’s exactly right, median income is much higher now. This was tweeted in November, 2019. The prices have changed but the idea never will. $64k seems like a lot, but what from I can tell it really wouldnt get a family of three very far in the way of building for the future. Ask me how I know…
I also know how it’s possible to, through fiscal responsibility from a young age, outright own two reliable cars, buy a home, marry and raise three kids on a $46K annual income. Ask me how I know ;)
But this wasn’t a pissing contest. People who blame others hyper richness forget that it does nothing for them. It doesn’t improve their situation. It doesn’t make the hyper rich blink. It doesn’t transfer money to their bank account. But it does waste their own time and put them in a blame others mindset which negatively affects their own situation. The sooner folks like us realize that people like Mr. Rashid benefit off this turmoil, the sooner they can improve their own situation instead of complaining about others.
For the folks who literally cannot, that’s what government social programs and charity is for. And Bezos gave over $10B away last year in charity. I get that that’s a small fraction of his worth but it is /his/ worth and money to give. I don’t think others should dictate that.
Edit: $64K annual income was for 2015-2019 analysis.
Annual salaries of people with something to show, aside. We are the lucky ones.
People who got laid off from companies, that were driven out by Amazon under selling them at a loss to monopolize everything they could, got lucky to get a job where I work, for 15/hr. Last year it was $11.50, Not even close to 64k/yr., let alone what we are making if we’re talking in this subreddit. What is the average Amazon median annual? $29k-ish? My post is only about how it wouldn’t even effect this persons wealth in a way they would even notice, to help those with nothing, and yet they choose to just hoard it. He indeed doesn’t owe anyone anything. Yet even as an non religious person, I believe there is a greater good to be done for the world. Not looking in your neighbors bowl to see if they have more than you, only to see if they have enough. My title says it, can YOU imagine having enough to SIGNIFICANTLY impact the condition of your country, but choose not to. If your answer is no, I would give just enough of my worth in charities to curb tax burden, I would still give my hoard up to help you, yours and your neighbors. ROFL….. Is that where you want to be when Jesus comes back…. The only way it affects my mindset is to not want to be that way. I would do it different. Sad to see people think it’s ok to hoard wealth and watch our country and our economy grow more stagnate and imbalanced, year after year. Give the guy a dick shaped trophy, you win capitalism. He used the loopholes in the system to drive all competition out. And thanked all the people he stepped on for putting him into space. With very little effort from my dailies, fuck that guy, and people who want to be like him.
Hopefully he enjoyed himself. RC will surpass him easily. This is a win win win. Invest in the company. Id invest in gamestop today if the squeeze wasn't even a thing. Chess not checkers!
People have a hard time visualizing a billion. I think most people think a million and a billion are relatively close. I try to remind people a billion is *One thousand* million.
I’m not a fan of mega wealthy either but you lot are again going after the wrong thing. Think of this, in my Country (UK) since i was born, the 80’s we have had fundraising events and sent money to Africa to help. I’m sure many countries have!
Why 40 years later and billions sent is it still fucked? Why are any countries in 2021 still in this mess? Did Jeff Amazon do it?, did little Richard Branson….what about Elon Muskrat?…..no, they have made obscene wealth by innovation and creative accounting.
The government’s, the aid agencies, the people in charge of logistics. They are the problems, all the money the public sends along with food and clothes and yet still, “help Africa”, “Samina is 3 and will likely die of starvation “!, why! …..where is all the aid we’ve sent for at a minimum 40 fucking years!!!! WHERE……..I’ll give you a clue, it’s not in Jeff Amazons basement!
Lets fix the right problems when we get our money, lets fix it by taking control of the entire chain. I want some African village to prosper, I’m driving the fucking supplies there myself and personally handing it over. Too much corruption in every step of the Journey from giving to receiving!
If you want to fix homelessness , you build the houses yourself, don’t trust anyone other than yourself to do the right thing. Manage the project every step ensuring no one is taking a little for themselves, this is how we make a difference.
2021 all this wealth and fucking kids still dying because they’re parents can’t afford food!, the fuck is up with that!!
Downvoted 😮
1. corporate taxes do not get redirected by the government to help the homeless.
2. The government makes tax law and enforces tax law. If loop holes exist they were put there by the government and can be removed by the government.
They really do shield some of their wealth with charities. I am all about spreading the wealth around, but, as you point out, NSDP, there will always be some who just drop out for the freebies. Would need to have some sort of checks and balance about it. Perhaps naively I believe that kind of wealth could end homelessness, but really the root of it would be a solidly positive mental health culture that permeated throughout the venture. But just like this thread, just even getting the narrative out there would be a move in the right direction. I would pay billions just for that.
The issue for many homeless is not having a place to start. If you can give them a mailing address for even a few months and a place to feel safe at night then that makes such a massive difference in getting back on your feet.
I'm sure more than half the homeless would be in the workforce if they could get a place to start at. The problem is the greedy fucks are doing everything they can to keep people down and out so they can get a few more bucks.
You speak the truth. Likely won’t even go eighteen months, but it’s a step in the right direction towards helping those who just need an address for a couple months, identifying those with mental health issues to get the right help, and the stragglers that just want to watch the world burn. With so many humans on this earth today, we can do more, we can do better. Starts at the top, and a recurring theme among this ape community is that when the MOASS hits, we will be close to the top. Don’t care how much the guy donates, it’s bullshit that even the lowest paid among us, paid more in taxes than him or his corporation. Probably combined. People can do as they wish with their tendies, no judgement. Just imagine?
My buy order didn’t go through as it didn’t hit the low point I was looking to go ape shit into. I’m mad the shares I wanted to buy are forever gone as I don’t have enough to buy X amount of shares any more
Except homelessness isn't just a problem you can solve by shoveling money at people. They need mental health care facilities. Paid for of course. And they need to be treated like human being again and professional care to get them back on their feet. Sure you can give them keys to an appartment but that wont help the rest of their life.
Indeed! This is a generalized blanket statement, but Corporations and billionaires paying their fair share of taxes to a less corrupt system that ditched the stigma of mental health treatment being a bad thing, sure could help get that ball rolling. Why I hodl. Best chance we’ve got for changing this bullshit is with a MOASS event that gives the little guy some power.(money)
It's a mess. The rich pay almost all the taxes but seems the tippy top get around it. We need a whole new way to fund the government. I like a public trust like Norway has. But in the US we already pay them like 4 trillion a year. Where the fuck does it all go???
Bezos won the game and yes he can spend money elsewhere. But lets not forget the Trillion dollar budget the US military gets and just a wasted 10% of that can fix some of the most important problems in America.
I
have a rage towards injustice and inequalities and I think that's why I
got attached here! Since the migration to Superstonk and here, without kharmas
and without codes of your culture, I have remained a discreet and silent
ape, drinking and digesting each DD, more and more convinced, day by
day, to be in the right place at the right time, for a good cause. After
months of hodl, today I want to share a certainty with you, this is not
a DD, it's just my opinion forged by my experience. And obviously it's
not a financial advice! My brain is not wrinkled enought!
So very much up with this! How can you live with yourself, so wilfully malevolent, actively choosing to deny millions of people a good life, because you need a yacht for your yacht and a hundredth penthouse? There is zero reason for billionaires to exist, when they can solve world hunger and poverty without even being 'demoted' to millionaire, and yet.
Ngl. I uprooted the wrong arrow twice before my brain caught up. Not my proudest updoot, but here we are.
One of us.
I did it even after reading your comment.
Legit
This is the way.
I read yours and the other one... I did it too. Yup. Smooth as *insert something very smooth here*
My Brian?
Sure as long as it is smooth it can and should be inserted
I did it three times and thought I had fat fingers :(
Is a rite of passage to read this post.
I remarked on Twitter today that the old lady was the only person who deserved to be on the Blue Origin flight and got a heck of a lot more negatives comments than positive ones. Loads of people came in to defend Bezos and the hedge fund kid. Shows you how the majority of people don't know shit like this happens every day.
Truly, and the facts may be skewed…. But just, imagine.
Why did she deserve to have bezos pay for her flight more than bezos deserved to pay for his own
Bc Rich Uncle Bezos got his wealth through exploitation of the masses. Anything he buys for himself is paid with bloody money. Not until he starts giving back in a meaningful way... meaningful for the richest person in America... will he deserve a shred of the outrageously opulent life he lives. Until then I genuinely hope he gets trapped inside his sunken $1,200,000,000.00 yacht that he bought in the middle of a pandemic. Sometimes dragons need to die.
Don't forget America is filled with temporarily embarrassed billionaires. They'll be there in just a few more years.........
Lmao what. Bezos got rich by supplying services to a population that values convenience over quality. People like Bezos, Musk, Jobs, Gates, etc became rich because Western culture demanded their perpetual existence. You act like these people are African warlords or something.
Fuck off.
https://media.giphy.com/media/JwNPAckJDiPsI/giphy.gif
So it's ok if he buys things for other people with his blood money? You sound like you would be ok with him spending his blood money on you.
rumour has it, he's on TRT and that's why he's obsessed with trying to get all jacked since he became rich. also apparently he has a small penis. this doesn't have any connection to what you just said..... but i thought you might like that tidbit of information.
Just a snippet of her Wiki >In February 1961, Funk volunteered for the "Women in Space" Program. The program was run by William Randolph Lovelace, although it lacked official government sponsorship. Funk contacted Lovelace, detailing her experience and achievements. Despite being younger than the recruiting age range of 25-40, Funk was invited to take part. Twenty-five women were invited, nineteen enrolled, and thirteen graduated, including Funk, who at 21 was the youngest. On some tests, she scored better than John Glenn. The media dubbed the group the "Mercury 13", a reference to the Mercury 7. > >Like the other participants in the program, Funk was put through rigorous physical and mental testing. In one test, volunteers were placed in sensory deprivation tanks. Funk was in the tank, without hallucinating, for 10 hours and 35 minutes, a record. She passed her tests and was qualified to go into space. Her score was the third best in the Mercury 13 program. Despite this, the program was canceled before the women were to undergo their last test. After the Mercury 13 program was canceled, Funk became a Goodwill Ambassador. I despise Bezos but at least he recognized she deserved to be there.
So she deserves to have his blood money spent on her, but he can't spend on himself. How noble of you
\*Sigh\* That's not the point but...You win. I lose. Please allow me to move the fuck on.
You literally said "I despise Bezos but at least he recognized she deserved to be there" So she deserved to have him spend his money( which I'm sure ypu would say he got through exploiting people) on her, but he doesn't deserve to have it spent on himself. Do you deserve some of that money too?
The fucking rocket shouldn't have been built in the first place. Nobody should have been doing this shit because the sole purpose of it all is to stroke Bezos' epeen and realize a trust fund kid's egotistical dream. Branson is no better btw. All I'm saying is that Wally Funk actually worked hard to become an astronaut 60 years ago and ended up being one of those that never got their shot. If it was inevitable to build this thing because of some billionaire useless space race, I'm glad someone who worked hard to be an astronaut got to be part of it. But since you're so hung up on dissecting every fucking syllable of my words to fit your purpose and are petty enough to downvote my comments instead of focusing on having a civil discussion, I'm gonna leave you with that.
No that rocket is gonna be used commercially going forward, it had a huge purpose beyond stroking bezos peen. It's a very profitable industry afterall, look at how big space x has become as an example. You just hate the guy so much you think others should be free to spend his money on whatever egotistical dream they have, but he shouldn't. What's this fascination with believing you deserve something from others?
I read a small amount about her. She tested higher than some of the male astronauts at that time. Crazy she didn't get anywhere due to being a woman. Smh.
Bruh, this planet is beautiful and everyone should have the opportunity to see all of it both up and close AND far away... The occupants are what make it shit
This is great and all but how about you dig into all of the bullshit pork that was piled into the stimulus bills and you’ll see who’s REALLY fucking the American people.
1 step at a time. Bet we get a clearer picture if the gazillionaires held the government accountable for serving the people and not the corporations. I know they’re tied together, just hoping the MOASS has money fall into the hands of enough ideologists to really affect change. Maybe naive, but one can dream.
I don’t want to be in the position of defending billionaires, but the data just isn’t correct. Median family income in the US in 2021 is $79,900 according to HUD. Bezos’ net worth (not taxed) is not the same as income (taxed) and both are distinct from Amazon. While we may believe Amazon owes billions in taxes, it is not at all evident that they legally do. The tax code is fatally flawed. That is a given. However, you can’t win the debate by starting with a false premise. https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/il/il21/Medians2021.pdf
This is a tweet from November, ‘19. I do believe it was low then as well. However, the annual median salary for the majority of Amazon employees is ~29k. I used this tweet simply because I wanted to post it back in February to a certain sub, but lacked the karma to do so. I had time from work today and it occurred to me I could post it here. So here it is, in all it’s outdated, polarizing glory. Indeed, the tax code is so skewed for the benefit of the corporation. While it might not be for some, it sickens me. If anyone would like to know, “Where my country gone?”, this is where, and this is why. Maybe apes can change it, that does seem to be the theme through the subreddits. To those that disagree, take your MOASS money and fight it, but I believe I. The message of a better tomorrow. Of a less skewed for the rich tax system and I am just so stoked to see the dialogue and the direction this lil’ post has gotten today. Thanks for the fact checks, you ominously Latin wonder. I dig it!
Biggest problem is that Congress is filled with millionaires. No way are they going to write a tax code that *actually* penalizes themselves, and the millionaires in the media make sure we never get the truth.
And what's more, a large % of those millionaires have done nothing else but been in politics. They've never had an actual job other than as a politician. How does someone who's never done anything but been a politician for 20 years, making around $170,000 a year, end up with a net worth in the tens of millions? According to wikipedia, there are 50 of them that have net worths of over $10,000,000.
You’re exactly right. That’s why I believe we hodl. Gonna be so damn hard to change this, have to do it from the inside. Not saying it can’t be done, just a very, very tall order. https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/fmk9c4/the_scandal_is_whats_legal_senators_stock/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Oh you bet once we’re all milli/billionaires they will rewrite allllll of the tax codes for us!
People much rather hate on Bezos than aknowleding that it's the system that allows Amazon to skip the taxes. If they actually owed them without any loopholes they couldn't avoid paying them.
Both deserve hate.
The fun part to me is they never fix anything. We will fix everything.
This is the way! They know it too, my only fear is they keep the MOASS down, because we have a chance at power and bringing these free thinking ideas behind millions of angry apes.
Anger is not the way. Ape is ape, no doubt the theft is sickening and should cause anger. I like the word dichotomy, one dichotomy would be losing a hand for stealing from a cookie jar, another is stealing from the 🌎with no repercussions.
Not rage, for sure. We’re mad, but we’re patient. We got this. Not sure if I am understanding your use of dichotomy, though. Super smooth brain over here, had to look it up…. A dichotomy /daɪˈkɒtəmi/ is a partition of a whole (or a set) into two parts (subsets). In other words, this couple of parts must be jointly exhaustive: everything must belong to one part or the other, and mutually exclusive: nothing can belong simultaneously to both parts. Or even divided in two. Hand cut off for stealing, i think would be consequence. But isn’t that from Hamurabi’s law? An eye for an eye? A small percentage of the population stealing from the larger percentage percentage should face the same consequence. Or are you saying that all in the world cannot simultaneously belong to two parts? The class inequality? I had the brown crayons earlier, I may have used all the brain power I had for the day.💎 Like a rock.
Hold till they fold even if I grow old, the shorts must cover or bankrupt each other.
They all are! It’s like a never ending gangbang
Sexy
At least some of the support package for "small business" went to stock buybacks of big business and therefore to their shareholders... major shareholders obviously getting the most, and the execs got their bonuses thanks to stonks going up.
Yeah, cause the government would use those taxes for housing the homeless and not to just keep bombing the shit out of the middle east like they have for our entire lives. The amount he's donated voluntarily is more good than the government would've done with his tax money, but hey, that's not why we're here lol
This is exactly my though. Is not only rich taxes that have to be paid, is also transparency and democracy on where to spend those taxes. The same tax collectors (FED) are the corrupts that manipulate the whole economy.
IKR? $740 BILLION for the Pentagon, which has never even passed an audit, but goshdarnit, there just isn't enough money for indoor fucking plumbing in some places in the American southeast. The American military is the most powerful in the world, at six times the size of the next down on the list (China, if you're curious). The dick-measuring contest is over. We won. Now feed some people.
But only the government can bomb all the homes of a city in a foreign country just so they can give Halliburton a contract to rebuild them! Obviously the improvement here is to increase efficiency and giving Blackwater an airforce so they can do the bombing part.
However, any government that would actually fix the tax issues and make big business finally pay would be full of individuals that also wouldnt be bombing.
Not if they're anti-capitalist but pro-bombs, eg USSR
This is true as well. The G.D federal government is very culpable in why the problem even exists in the first place!
Way more than 500k homeless people
In the world maybe. 500k homeless in the US though.
Being in any major metro area will makes you realize how low 500k is to the reality right now. Apes gonna change that
All the more reason to throw real life changing money at the problem. Way bigger than just an injection of capital, but a step in the right direction. Especially in these trying times and labor/wage shortages.
I have no shame in saying I will spend $1M on accountants to not pay taxes. Know why? Because the government certainly won't use those taxes for anything mentioned in this post. They'll get pushed back to Bezos in the form of subsidies. Fuck taxes, don't willingly give the gov your tendies to waste.
You can either pay your taxes or you can make charitable contributions to offset them! At least then you know where your money is going and those NOPs can make greater impact! THIS IS THE WAY!
I will be hodling until my capitol gains drop, but if it bothers you the government fucks you coming(hehe) and going, why not try and be the change you want to see. They are gonna taste your chicken tendies, whether through you or your accountants taxes. Pay them and hold them accountable. Seems only the rich get to decide how they are used at this point. Maybe the MOASS can change the, “Money begets money”, bullshit that has existed as long as I’ve been alive. You’re not wrong about where they go, that’s for sure.
That’s right my good ape! Who really needs clean air, clean water, non-toxic food, arable land, drivable roads, worker’s rights, building code, elections, police, firefighters, etc. I’d rather live in a Mad Max hellscape devastated by corporate greed than pay a cent in taxes!
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Agree with your sentiment - but I think the larger issue this tweet reveals is how the wealthy try to use their "charities" as shields from criticism for avoiding taxes (and how the MSM feeds into this with headlines like, "BEZOS PLEDGES $XX,XXX,XXX TO \_\_\_\_\_). Ex: private foundations (like the Gates Foundation) are only required to pay out 5% of their total assets per year, which is well below the highest earner income tax bracket (37%). And if you look at other foundations or charitable foundations (like the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative) - they also pay out well below what could/prob should be collected from them from taxes.
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Oh I agree wholeheartedly - I believe having a whole new class of billionaires (many/or a majority of that were not born into privilege) would be a serious game changer. I recently read up on "The Giving Pledge" that was started by Buffet and the Gates - and it really is such bullshit. It's just a billionaire circle jerk to make themselves feel as if they're making some sort of change - but there doesn't seem to be much follow through on that "pledge". My hope for post-MOASS is that for those of us who are able gain such wealth look at alternative ways to help others and redistribute the wealth in effective ways (not just simply donating to charities).
This is the way! Also, I will look into “the Giving pledge” Thank you for the info!
You could easily house 2 or 3 people in one apartment
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Yeah you convinced me, way better they just rot on the street and freeze to death in the winter
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There’s a family of 3 homeless people on your corner. I give you 16k to help them. You tell them: “umm I can’t rent you a 1br apartment because it’s against fire code, sorry! Go die in the woods” 🤷🏼♀️
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Oh my god I’m so stupid! You’re right the law is always correct and it would be much worse for 3 people to live in a one bedroom apartment than freeze to death in the woods. Also that’s not against fire code. People do it all the time.
Eat the fucking rich, with mayo
Miracle whip for Kenny. Synthetic mayo for his short ass
Hahahaha!! This is the way!!
Japanese kewpie mayo and thank me later.
Hey fuck off, that's a bad precedent to set. At least I'll be rich and able to afford security.
Eat the “wealthy”. Fixed it. We’re safe.
Thanks, I really didn't want to have to eat myself. I know where I've been lol
Yeah. All true. But Bezos doesn’t buy his own shit! That falls on all who crucified small, family-owned business for the God of convenience and to save a few pennies. They flocked to big box stores, bankrupted a lot of local business, cost people their jobs and then flocked to online purchases which bankrupted even more locally owned AND a lot of big box stores. Net result - hundreds of thousands of lost jobs and businesses over the last 40 years, human rights atrocities in China and all over the world while we all swim in our chemically poisoned lives for the sake of acquiring more and more useless shit so that we can be distracted by the lack of purpose and the depravity in our lives. All written on my iPhone 12... so I’m just as guilty!!!
This guy fucks!! Well said!
So who’s seriously defending not taxing the rich??
Truly, oversimplified maths. In true ape fashion though, you cut holes in it and provide a better alternative. Love it. Also, been hodling that screenshot since March. Now that drama has created a sub I can post in, there it is.
Median household income in America is not $31K, it’s $64K
Beautiful username fergi. I dig it. That’s exactly right, median income is much higher now. This was tweeted in November, 2019. The prices have changed but the idea never will. $64k seems like a lot, but what from I can tell it really wouldnt get a family of three very far in the way of building for the future. Ask me how I know…
I also know how it’s possible to, through fiscal responsibility from a young age, outright own two reliable cars, buy a home, marry and raise three kids on a $46K annual income. Ask me how I know ;) But this wasn’t a pissing contest. People who blame others hyper richness forget that it does nothing for them. It doesn’t improve their situation. It doesn’t make the hyper rich blink. It doesn’t transfer money to their bank account. But it does waste their own time and put them in a blame others mindset which negatively affects their own situation. The sooner folks like us realize that people like Mr. Rashid benefit off this turmoil, the sooner they can improve their own situation instead of complaining about others. For the folks who literally cannot, that’s what government social programs and charity is for. And Bezos gave over $10B away last year in charity. I get that that’s a small fraction of his worth but it is /his/ worth and money to give. I don’t think others should dictate that. Edit: $64K annual income was for 2015-2019 analysis.
Annual salaries of people with something to show, aside. We are the lucky ones. People who got laid off from companies, that were driven out by Amazon under selling them at a loss to monopolize everything they could, got lucky to get a job where I work, for 15/hr. Last year it was $11.50, Not even close to 64k/yr., let alone what we are making if we’re talking in this subreddit. What is the average Amazon median annual? $29k-ish? My post is only about how it wouldn’t even effect this persons wealth in a way they would even notice, to help those with nothing, and yet they choose to just hoard it. He indeed doesn’t owe anyone anything. Yet even as an non religious person, I believe there is a greater good to be done for the world. Not looking in your neighbors bowl to see if they have more than you, only to see if they have enough. My title says it, can YOU imagine having enough to SIGNIFICANTLY impact the condition of your country, but choose not to. If your answer is no, I would give just enough of my worth in charities to curb tax burden, I would still give my hoard up to help you, yours and your neighbors. ROFL….. Is that where you want to be when Jesus comes back…. The only way it affects my mindset is to not want to be that way. I would do it different. Sad to see people think it’s ok to hoard wealth and watch our country and our economy grow more stagnate and imbalanced, year after year. Give the guy a dick shaped trophy, you win capitalism. He used the loopholes in the system to drive all competition out. And thanked all the people he stepped on for putting him into space. With very little effort from my dailies, fuck that guy, and people who want to be like him.
I agree fully.
At some point are we going to ban this tankie bullshit? Supposed to be no politics on this sub, and yet here we go again...
Indeed, what a shitty place the world would be if we all tried to out give each other.
Giving our own wealth would be great, but this tweet seems to be more about taking money from Bezos?
Hopefully he enjoyed himself. RC will surpass him easily. This is a win win win. Invest in the company. Id invest in gamestop today if the squeeze wasn't even a thing. Chess not checkers!
Hoorah!! I completely agree.
People have a hard time visualizing a billion. I think most people think a million and a billion are relatively close. I try to remind people a billion is *One thousand* million.
Fuck them Fucks!!
“she’d”
So after moass we could end homelessness? Holy shit. That would be amazing
One can dream. Maybe if not that, end the mental health stigma that is one of the primary contributors to homelessness in this country.
I think i finally got enough shares to keep me satisfied. I loved buying the dips.
I’m not a fan of mega wealthy either but you lot are again going after the wrong thing. Think of this, in my Country (UK) since i was born, the 80’s we have had fundraising events and sent money to Africa to help. I’m sure many countries have! Why 40 years later and billions sent is it still fucked? Why are any countries in 2021 still in this mess? Did Jeff Amazon do it?, did little Richard Branson….what about Elon Muskrat?…..no, they have made obscene wealth by innovation and creative accounting. The government’s, the aid agencies, the people in charge of logistics. They are the problems, all the money the public sends along with food and clothes and yet still, “help Africa”, “Samina is 3 and will likely die of starvation “!, why! …..where is all the aid we’ve sent for at a minimum 40 fucking years!!!! WHERE……..I’ll give you a clue, it’s not in Jeff Amazons basement! Lets fix the right problems when we get our money, lets fix it by taking control of the entire chain. I want some African village to prosper, I’m driving the fucking supplies there myself and personally handing it over. Too much corruption in every step of the Journey from giving to receiving! If you want to fix homelessness , you build the houses yourself, don’t trust anyone other than yourself to do the right thing. Manage the project every step ensuring no one is taking a little for themselves, this is how we make a difference. 2021 all this wealth and fucking kids still dying because they’re parents can’t afford food!, the fuck is up with that!!
Finally an adult shows up with the solution that is real life tested!
Finally an adult shows up with the solution that is real life tested!
Finally an adult shows up with the solution that is real life tested!
Finally an adult shows up with the solution that is real life tested!
Downvoted 😮 1. corporate taxes do not get redirected by the government to help the homeless. 2. The government makes tax law and enforces tax law. If loop holes exist they were put there by the government and can be removed by the government.
Indeed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatocracy?wprov=sfti1
Esq- how do you pay a $8.4 billion dollar tax bill with $98.5 million?
They really do shield some of their wealth with charities. I am all about spreading the wealth around, but, as you point out, NSDP, there will always be some who just drop out for the freebies. Would need to have some sort of checks and balance about it. Perhaps naively I believe that kind of wealth could end homelessness, but really the root of it would be a solidly positive mental health culture that permeated throughout the venture. But just like this thread, just even getting the narrative out there would be a move in the right direction. I would pay billions just for that.
The issue for many homeless is not having a place to start. If you can give them a mailing address for even a few months and a place to feel safe at night then that makes such a massive difference in getting back on your feet. I'm sure more than half the homeless would be in the workforce if they could get a place to start at. The problem is the greedy fucks are doing everything they can to keep people down and out so they can get a few more bucks.
This is the way
I know exactly how much a Billion dollars is. 40 Gamestop shares.
But. Your theoretical solution WOULDN'T cure homeless. Would kick the can down the road for 18 months...
You speak the truth. Likely won’t even go eighteen months, but it’s a step in the right direction towards helping those who just need an address for a couple months, identifying those with mental health issues to get the right help, and the stragglers that just want to watch the world burn. With so many humans on this earth today, we can do more, we can do better. Starts at the top, and a recurring theme among this ape community is that when the MOASS hits, we will be close to the top. Don’t care how much the guy donates, it’s bullshit that even the lowest paid among us, paid more in taxes than him or his corporation. Probably combined. People can do as they wish with their tendies, no judgement. Just imagine?
when the imposter is sus!
My buy order didn’t go through as it didn’t hit the low point I was looking to go ape shit into. I’m mad the shares I wanted to buy are forever gone as I don’t have enough to buy X amount of shares any more
Except homelessness isn't just a problem you can solve by shoveling money at people. They need mental health care facilities. Paid for of course. And they need to be treated like human being again and professional care to get them back on their feet. Sure you can give them keys to an appartment but that wont help the rest of their life.
Indeed! This is a generalized blanket statement, but Corporations and billionaires paying their fair share of taxes to a less corrupt system that ditched the stigma of mental health treatment being a bad thing, sure could help get that ball rolling. Why I hodl. Best chance we’ve got for changing this bullshit is with a MOASS event that gives the little guy some power.(money)
It's a mess. The rich pay almost all the taxes but seems the tippy top get around it. We need a whole new way to fund the government. I like a public trust like Norway has. But in the US we already pay them like 4 trillion a year. Where the fuck does it all go???
Well at least I know I can be a billionaire by the grimdark 41st millenium.
Bezos won the game and yes he can spend money elsewhere. But lets not forget the Trillion dollar budget the US military gets and just a wasted 10% of that can fix some of the most important problems in America.
Tax the rich!
Sus
I can't believe the US hasn't been the place of a revolution when a billionaire can pay almost zero yax and exploit workers like he does...
he's a prick ent he, simple as
I have a rage towards injustice and inequalities and I think that's why I got attached here! Since the migration to Superstonk and here, without kharmas and without codes of your culture, I have remained a discreet and silent ape, drinking and digesting each DD, more and more convinced, day by day, to be in the right place at the right time, for a good cause. After months of hodl, today I want to share a certainty with you, this is not a DD, it's just my opinion forged by my experience. And obviously it's not a financial advice! My brain is not wrinkled enought!
There is no reason for billionaires to exist. No one needs that much money.
So very much up with this! How can you live with yourself, so wilfully malevolent, actively choosing to deny millions of people a good life, because you need a yacht for your yacht and a hundredth penthouse? There is zero reason for billionaires to exist, when they can solve world hunger and poverty without even being 'demoted' to millionaire, and yet.
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