www quakerboy us

5y

you are right semantically speaking, no one has to do anything for anybody. as for me i do donate to causes a fair amount and consider myself a pretty empathetic person and i do care about the man next to me more than others

plants

5y

I just don't see the exploitation of the masses as something to work towards.

Instead I be raising up my local community and working for the homeless population because that's what I think is the right thing to do.

I can simultaneously be involved in my community, making a living, content with my life, and also get mad over the fact that government policy has made it almost impossible to tax the wealthy. The IRS has been defunded for decades and literally just said "We don't have the funds to try and accurately tax the ultra-wealthy and that's why we go for your average joe".

IRS should be funded at record levels, monopolies like Disney should be broken up somewhat and regulated to preserve the ability of the (mostly) free market to actually work as intended. Tax rates similar to post-WWII should be brought back and actually enforced (hence the IRS funding) and utilized to re-fund education, enact universal healthcare (something every other 1st world country has had for decades) invest ininfrastructure, civil-service programs, and other services that actually benefit your average American citizen.

I am very interested in your reply btw.

Vae

5y

hope he sees this bro

Alex

5y

Bro I will never attack anyone’s choice to help their neighbors and I really hope you don’t misunderstand me

that’s what you should do

but to say that’s what he HAS to do is another story.

you know what I mean?

and yeah I agree it’s complete bullshit if the government is allowing some of the tax shenanigans these motherfuckers are getting away with

But I’d blame the system more so than I’d blame him.

bobby j

5y

Bezos didn’t grow up rich and his dad abandoned him

y’all really think all of these billionaires were born into wealth

plants

5y

See the thing is, if me, who makes $15 an hour is willing to do all this to enact just a tiny about of help to my community then why on earth is the worlds richest man not doing magnitudes more help? Is he psychotic? Is he really that greedy? Like there gotta be something f***ed up cuz why would he not just throw stacks all over the place like Gates' tryna clean s*** up?

So if he won't do it, tax the f***in piss outta him. Not like there's a huge difference in the quality of life between 100b and 10b.

Alex

5y

Agreed until the end

this is America bro.

My right to swing my arm ends at the point where it connects to your face.

You can b**** and complain about what he does, but at least he donates (when he does NOT have to, should he? Yes ofc, but he doesn’t HAVE to and DOES)

but you can’t force anyone to give their property to anyone else bruh. That’s the cost of freedom.

ThuggerBaby

5y

Bunch of dumbasses with zero ambition and skills and work ethic mad at a guy who built one of the largest companies in history making money he can't even spend

you love to see it

NBA GameBoy

5y

Yes he did it all by himself and deserves all that sweet sweet profit what a hard worker congrats Jeff you’re an inspiration to us all

ThuggerBaby

5y

Anyone who has proposed real ideas to Amazon and contributed heavily in its growth is getting paid their fair share

ThuggerBaby

5y

Anyone who has proposed real ideas to Amazon and contributed heavily in its growth is getting paid their fair share

Alex

5y

Bro I will never attack anyone’s choice to help their neighbors and I really hope you don’t misunderstand me

that’s what you should do

but to say that’s what he HAS to do is another story.

you know what I mean?

and yeah I agree it’s complete bullshit if the government is allowing some of the tax shenanigans these motherfuckers are getting away with

But I’d blame the system more so than I’d blame him.

ThuggerBaby

5y

Anyone who has proposed real ideas to Amazon and contributed heavily in its growth is getting paid their fair share

Smoofer

5y

Amazon would not exist without thousands of factory workers that are definitely not getting paid their fair share

Smoofer

5y

Not everything is about money . Getting that out of your head will improve your life

ThuggerBaby

5y

and their jobs are all easily replaceable

you are nuts to think they deserve more lmao

Amazon would not exist without guys like Bezos, Jassy, Blackburn, Olsavsky who made the real decisions to grow the business and invest in things that defined Amazon as what it is today.

bobby j

5y

Bezos didn’t grow up rich and his dad abandoned him

y’all really think all of these billionaires were born into wealth

plants

5y

Jeff Bezos, now the richest man in modern history, began with a $US100,000 “investment” in 1995 from his parents after leaving “a cushy gig on Wall Street”, where he served as vice-president of D. E. Shaw & Co, to pursue Amazon – what was then a fledgling online bookstore, and is presently a domineering retailer powerhouse.

What this captured moment of seemingly impoverished disarray omits, quite deliberately in fact, is that at the time of this interview Jeff Bezos was number 19 on the list of worldwide billionaires, with a registered net worth of $US10.1 billion.

Like I ain't saying he was born rich or anything but most people can't just ask their parents for 100k.

plants

5y

Jeff Bezos, now the richest man in modern history, began with a $US100,000 “investment” in 1995 from his parents after leaving “a cushy gig on Wall Street”, where he served as vice-president of D. E. Shaw & Co, to pursue Amazon – what was then a fledgling online bookstore, and is presently a domineering retailer powerhouse.

What this captured moment of seemingly impoverished disarray omits, quite deliberately in fact, is that at the time of this interview Jeff Bezos was number 19 on the list of worldwide billionaires, with a registered net worth of $US10.1 billion.

Like I ain't saying he was born rich or anything but most people can't just ask their parents for 100k.

krishna bound

5y

the issue i have isnt really with bezos starting a business or him making money, its how he unfairly benefits from a system which perpetuates the existence of companies above a certain exponential threshold. Amazon is only this big because of the government - while you can argue yes, he made it a multi-million dollar business himself - the threshold that crossed from multi-million to multi-billion empire is literally because the government has a stake in perpetuating Amazon through things like subsidies, military contracts, and more. These types of deals given to a business while they're still in the unstable middle phase of development is what allowed the company to become so big. Virtually every tech billionaire has relied on passive government intervention in order to grow their wealth. Even Elon Musk's businesses have a similar model of government contracts, tax subsidies + credits. It's unfair, there's no other way of looking at it. You can argue he made it into a multi-millionaire dollar business, but the gap between business & empire is literally enabled by the government and once you're past that gap you become a pseudo-governmental entity.