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[–] glimse@lemmy.world 65 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 37 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

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

Billionaires

[–] john89@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I just have to say, we shouldn't even be targeting musk with this; we need to be going after his family.

Once musk is out of the picture, they're just going to inherit the wealth and continue to use it to gain more wealth as quickly as they think possible.

Keep in mind, as it stands right now, his kids expect our kids to serve them.

[–] SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world 31 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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

[–] SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Shit really? Well I guess we can expect it to keep going up

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 8 points 2 weeks ago

Not just him. Trump has the most billionaire-packed administration in history, and they are all about to see huge gains.

[–] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

They are dominating because they are good at those things...which means that there is no reason to be destroying small businesses with mouse clicks. It's a coward's game and an extreme psychopathy.

[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

How in the fuck?

[–] the_post_of_tom_joad 3 points 2 weeks ago

Unlimited respect for more vitamin DDD

[–] UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Why're people downvoting you?

[–] granolabar@kbin.melroy.org 15 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 47 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

It has to be fucking taken by force, and I dont wanna hear any of your goddamn neoliberal whining about it. It's not "the world's billionaires"; it's "world billionaires propped up by US monetary policy". It has to stop. Bezos, btw, literally destroys companies and competition with a simple mouse click. He single-handedly controls the entirety of online commerce. One guy. Controlling EVERYTHING.

[–] john89@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago

They took it by force, why can't we?

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Some of them literally have their money in Euros and European companies, which the US does not control. I'm not going to whine if you wanna revolution, that's understandable, but be factual on the way.

[–] granolabar@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

USD is the king but yeah euro system is the other half of the orphan crushing machine

They subject to the same rules and interoperabile

Oligarchs can move within eurodollar no problems

[–] Pilferjinx@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Dude, I think that sentiment is shared among all the political spectrum. What happens after is what we tend to debate. I love communism in a vacuum, but many just see it as changing one corruptible system for another.

[–] ReakDuck@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

I somehow like the system Germany kinda has. More Social while still having control. Some say its hard to become rich as a company, but also you can have many securities. Still. I prefer a mix of both worlds

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

A cabal of Digi-tech-al robber Barons running the country openly. Elon Musk is going to be a staff member of the US Government.

[–] EnderMB@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Then why aren't you doing it?

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[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 30 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)
[–] john89@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago

Honestly, I think a lot of it is just to support the idea that those who have more, deserve more.

Useful idiots are in vogue. They live vicariously through their oppressors while working service jobs for scraps.

[–] DandomRude@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, only for their own benefit.

[–] Korkki@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 15 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

so the adjuster notices them

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

So the adjuster notices them

[–] GhiLA 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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

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[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The system is working as intended.

[–] john89@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago

Past time to change the system.

Those who benefit and think they benefit from it will fight back, though.

[–] GhiLA 14 points 2 weeks ago

They'll double next decade too, don't worry. We humans aren't really good at this planetary dominion shit. We've only really been at it for 200 years or so and we're already fucking up.

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