63 points

Bezos next

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Why’re people downvoting you?

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Because his security goons reading this too lol

It is cute how rich waste all this money to check social media for threat actors while we are just posting and commenting from our moms basements

Real men like the Adjuster just get the job done without providing signals for pinkertons to scarpe.

The parasite classes should note that when they get deposed, we didn’t see nothing.

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Musk still has a $122B lead on Bezos, and made $104B of it in the last 32 days.

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He has a $122 BILLION lead, and he’s earned $133 BILLION over the past year.

His wealth has increased by 50% over the past year alone

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And $104B out of the $133B was made just since the election.

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But Bezos literally controls THE ENTIRETY OF ONLINE COMMERCE and destroys companies and small businesses with a simple mouse click.

Literally DESTROYS COMMERCE with a simple mouse click.

He is the Ultimate Evil Capitalist; the JD Rockefeller of our generation.

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Part of the problem is that other sites are just soooo shit when it comes to online shopping. I hate Amazon and Bezos, but they are dominating 1. Because they are a monopoly, but 2. Because they simply are better at everything.

From customer service, to app, to search, to tracking and returns, no-one else comes close.

It sucks, but it’s the truth.

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3 points

How in the fuck?

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Unlimited respect for more vitamin DDD

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It’s more like they have tons of more money and larger numbers in their portfolio. it’s however not a significant increase in actual wealth, since the money they have is increasingly wort less and the worth of their assets are increasingly more and more speculative in nature. The pockets of billionaires is where all the printed money eventually ends up and society is no richer for it. The money contributes to inflation, but it really doesn’t get invested or anything.

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What are you getting at?

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That’s not how it works. They use it as Capital to influence politics and things like that, which buys them more influence, which they use to reduce workers pay, rights, and benefits even further, which they absolutely use to acquire more wealth.

Every billion they gain comes at the cost to worker rights.

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The system is working as intended.

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14 points

maybe we should kill them?

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For what benefit?

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Unfortunately, only for their own benefit.

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Increasingly not even for their own benefit. They are like a parasite that is killing it’s host and therefore it’s means of subsistence

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That’s what always gets me. You can’t spend a billion dollars on yourself - you could live in the highest possible luxury, waited on hand and foot by the best, and you’re barely going to eat up half of it in a lifetime - even if your money earned no interest

They’re not even happy. They’re hated by many, idolized by others, and the rest want to leech off them. They don’t even have good relationships among their peers, it’s like a never ending dick measuring contest

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13 points

so the adjuster notices them

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2 points

For what benefit?

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8 points

So the adjuster notices them

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I mean, my wealth has more than doubled over the past decade. The stock market has been going absolutely bananas, and my retirement accounts have done well.

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OK for some I guess.

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Your wealth has more than doubled. So? A significant number of people are in the shit. But I suppose as long as you’re doing ok, that’s alls that matters….

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I guess when corporate media told us the economy was doing great, it was you they were talking to, and not the other ~80–90% of Americans.

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This is either a boring rhetorical question or a very confused one.

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None, that’s the funny part. You could almost call it a flaw with humanity as a whole.

We can’t focus on any sort of task-at-hand for any greater good. We simply are just that self centered and greedy, despite those of us that fight against that nature, it’s still our nature.

Climate change? You can’t make people wear masks in grocery stores or vaccinate, good luck with the climate.

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Two options, if you’re shilling for billionaires:

They’re intrinsically 10,000x better than you and me and deserve to be 10,000x richer.

It’s just theirs. It says so somewhere, no backsies.

Pure trickle-down had it’s day too, but it’s it’s a joke again in modern times, for the most part. You may object that these are all weak arguments, but basically, you and what army?

Edit: “We need a remote chance of becoming a billionaire for anyone to go to work” is kind of a blend of trickle-down and argument number one, but I suppose I should mention it, just for the sake of completeness

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I guess even as a billionaire, the difference between your first 50 billion and your second 50 billion is that with your second you can make frivolous purchases of social media companies without going back to being poor.

It’s still bullshit in the big picture of history.

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Yeah, it’s a continuous scale, which is something people miss sometimes. When you talk to people with millions of dollars they have a tendency to say they’re not that rich, and point to some guy they know with tens of millions. They’re not wrong per se even if they’re dangerously out of touch; that extra digit changes a lot.

The bullshit is just that that scale goes way, way too high, as well as way too low. Human ability is normally distributed, and human worth is often held to be inalienably equal. Wealth follows a completely different distribution, for reasons.

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