More like … I own the sugar plantation so I can use as much sugar as I want … I can dump so much sugar into my lemon flavored water that it will be like selling crack to children. Once they’re hooked, these kids will beg their parents to buy my stuff for cheap … for the rest of their lives!
The sugar laden crap I get them hooked on also causes diabetes which is why I also own the diabetes medication pharmaceutical where these kids will buy their drugs as diabetic adults.
I’ll make money on these dumb kids through every stage of their miserable lives.
“We are in fact the same company”
Monsanto secret memo, paraphrased: Our competitors are not our adversaries. They are our allies. The customer is our adversary.
Disclosed during a price-fixing investigation.
Competitions end. And when competitions end in a world where everything is “run like a business,” the winners are not handed medals, but monopolies.
That was honestly pretty nice of the first guy to not use piss.
So we must buy his because he’s the lesser of two evils! That will fix the lemonade industry
Trying to explain this to people I know is nearly impossible. They always think “but when I’m rich I want all the money and no regulation!” Well guess what you work at Walmart and will never be rich so I guess let yourself get endlessly exploited then. There is no ethical billionaire. Maybe not even millionaire tbh.
As things are, every Millennial and anyone in a later generation is going to have to be a millionaire to retire to a reasonable level of comfort. It could also be true that there are no ethical millionaires. Where does that leave us?
Can’t speak for y’all, but I’m firmly in “will never be able to retire” territory.
Ditto. I am putting money away in my 401k like a good little citizen but I have no clue how that money will EVER be enough to support myself (not to mention any one else I might have around) in my old age.
At this point I don’t even consider 50 million net worth “rich”. There are 2 classes of people. Billionaires and their cronies, and everybody else.
It’s not that hard to be a millionaire by retirement if you have a decently good paying job. Assuming you’re making $84k a year (good money, but hardly “capitalist pig” level) and invest 6% of your income every year in your retirement account (~$5k a year) at a roughly 7% average interest rate (historical stock market average) for 40 years that gets you to $1mil.