No
But he should be taxed more

Billionaires from rap music are as close as you get to self made

hey i said billionaire and not oligarch

i'm not racist idk about any one else

He's a billionaire from fashion, not from his music

Kanye and Jay made their money through the clothing industry and real estate

They absolutely aren’t self made

i don't like her but she did get legislation that i support passed

not denying that

Working to continually improve the process is not the same thing as outright trashing and considering corrupt.

Remember that we got here because you said people are better served forming their own opinions instead of listening to the CDC. That is the complete opposite ideology of wanting to work to improve the process.

They first made 100s of millions of their music but eventually this yeah

Europeans talking in a positive manner about "refugees" now that it concerns Ukrainians, while holding Afghani's, Syrians and Yemeni's in contempt as unwanted "migrants" def pushes me over the edge

Rare Elon Musk W

Again whatever formal and informal processes with relation to govt the billionaires in russia have that differ from those in the states is largely just a function of different governmental systems and cultures

The end result is largely still the same and both should rightly be seen as equivalent to each other

they came from nothing

who is it, also whose your avi?

did u reply to the wrong post?

im not saying rich ppl don't have wayyy more power over the government than they should (shouldn't be any more than the poorest voter)

I'm not saying they don't influence the government to do outrageous s*** like go to war in Iraq

my point is just that, as bad as it is here, it's significantly worse in Russia. acting like that's not the case is silly and setting urself up for a quick dunking on. There's zero need to make up s*** and say BS like "US system is more corrupt than Russia" (arguably one of the most corrupt countries in the world) when u could just legitimately criticize the US and point out actual flaws.

So you like pelosi but you also think she’s corrupt and dishonest

'While you try to colonize Mars'

The US is bad as Russia because they’re both totally controlled by oligarchs

The US just happens to have a hegemony while Russia doesn’t

That gives them no excuse to profit off the backs of their workers

My point was largely in how they rose up

Kanye being a middle class black kid growing up in a rough city with all the racial forces that comes with and jay being straight up the victim of immense generational trauma in his environment, essentially growing up in a third world area

hell nah i don't like her but i don't hate her because she has gotten policy that i support passed

in congress she's one of the only ones thats not completely incompetent

You cannot continually improve a system for yourself if it is made for the purpose of exploiting you and your labor. Listening to the CDC means listening to the arm of a government that is upholding an exploitative and corrupt system

Form opinions based on a multitude of competing sources including independent institutes like scientific ones and make your own worldview

IDK why you think the US government wants to improve itself the people who’s interests they ACTUALLY work for are getting everything they want