Ah, I see. We're going to chastise others for not doing what they demand of the mega-rich.
No, I was chastising Thrill_house specifically for calling for murder when for all we know they've done even less than their hated billionaire of choice. I don't expect the average person to do anything. But I do expect those fine individuals who want to kill people to hold themselves to a higher standard.
Not that Bezos couldn't spend more on charities than he does, but one should always keep in mind when discussions of his wealth are brought up that Bezos' net worth consists almost entirely of Amazon shares, i.e., he doesn't actually have $100+ billion in cash lying around. At a certain point, any attempt to convert the paper value of his holdings into cash becomes a depletion of his ability to control and direct Amazon, which is the instrument he intends to use to carry out his assorted ventures.
Why? Amazon has literally worked people to death. Bezos treats the working class and poor like they don't matter.
I would just do it when I die. Haters gonna hate no matter what. Live it up and exit stage right saving the world.
holy shit I just realized this.
I don't expect decorum and civility. I expect people to learn from history and not call for the slaughter of people who get too rich. When it's happened because of people like Thrill_house and presumably you, there's lots of death, little or negative change for the working class and poor you claim to care about, and the establishment of totalitarian hellish regimes. It's usually the shrillest, craziest voices that have done the least research and introspection.
The rich will never, ever let people vote away their wealth. Ever! They have historically supported and installed fascist governments when their wealth has been threatened. You really wonder why people are so non-chalant about making guillotine jokes and wanting the wealthy to be executed? It's because we are very quickly approaching fascism again.
Any evidence of this? Many European countries, for example, have taxed their billionaires and even millionaires more harshly. The megarich response? Not the fascist coup of your imagining. Instead, some of them left the country for tax purposes. Some of them didn't even do that. Like why would these supposedly selfish rich people fight to protect other rich people when they could just move away?
Wow, devastating. So all he'd be left with is a mere $1,000,000,000? Why that means he would only be able spend 22 million a year if interest wasn't a thing.
But the killing of poor folks is fine
No he won't. Bezos will die in the presence of the finest palliative medications and doctors money can buy. The rest of us are fucked.
The poor die in greater numbers than the rich in totalitarian regimes, even when it's considered ok to kill the rich. It's the rich who have an easier time fleeing.
They're dying now as well. Your post said a society that accepts the killing of the rich is unacceptable. Is the killing of the poor by direct result of billionaires acceptable; yes or no?
More like "oh shit, someone took this off the cuff comment at face value." Followed by a readjustment and still being outraged at the man's wealth. Thanks Mango.
No, calling for the killing of neither the rich nor poor is acceptable. I don't get the intent of your question. Are you suggesting it's ok to kill some random billionaires if you think billionaires indirectly kill poor people?
No. I'm suggesting that I'm tired of people coming to the defense of the rich in a hypothetical scenario when the mere existence of billionaires is killing people now in real life. It suggests a lack of priorities.
The poor and middle class have supported fascists as well. Citing random examples of rich people who did business with fascists and then saying that means rich people, as a group, support fascism is like citing voting records of people for Hitler and then saying those groups support Hitler. It's not evidence, it's anecdote.
Lol someone seems mad
he's going to die in comfort, without debt, and in all likelihood far longer than most
I can keep showing you examples, and it's pretty obvious you will ignore the clear pattern that emerges because a couple of times in Germany and Portugal the working class voted against their own interests (never mind the purges and human rights suppression that subsequently happened to them)
I won't ignore patterns, but they have to be patterns, not just gathered examples. Show me and I'll be convinced. I dunno, voting stats that show super rich voters go with fascist parties more than other voter groups.
Nah. We're just going to keep buying everything from Amazon.
