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[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 days ago

When life gives you billionaires, make billionnaise.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Billionaires should not exist. You don't get to be a billionaire without exploiting people - for that matter once you get over about 10M you're probably stepping on people, or exploiting systems, in order to continue growing your wealth. And why, exactly? It's a sickness that gets worse the richer someone gets. It's been studied and confirmed that people who have excessive wealth convince themselves that they deserve it, they earned it individually, and that they are special and more valuable than others. So instead of riding off into the sunset, they feed their addiction by buying outsized and unearned power in order to shape the laws so that they can make more money. Just fuck off already - you won at capitalism, now get the fuck out of the way and stop screwing over everyone else and making our lives miserable.

Beyond 100M we should just take it all for the state. 100% tax rate. If you want to keep earning beyond that, then great, you will have the glory of contributing to the public good.

But since billionaires have convinced idiots to advocate against the idiots' own interest, and argue that the billionaires can't be constrained in any way, then this will never happen in the current social context. So next best thing is to do as Bill says. Put the fear of God into them.

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[–] [email protected] 196 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Well, that is a bit excessive.
Rabid dogs are put down because there is no cure for their disease, and they cannot be controlled, and their very existence will bring harm to others and...

Nevermind.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

Yah this is really hyperbolic, the reason we "put down" vicious or dangerous animals is because we've accepted that they are what they are and we've all collectively agreed that they cannot change their nature and will always be a danger to every- ...oh. Okay, yeah I see.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The least we can do is give them mock trials and public executions.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Not the first nor the last time Burr has made similar comments on the billionaires place in American politics. He is right though.

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[–] [email protected] 411 points 5 days ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 139 points 5 days ago (13 children)

Why you over here just casually posting pictures of heros?

[–] [email protected] 61 points 5 days ago

The man, the myth, the legend. Just had to let more people see that smile.

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[–] [email protected] 113 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I just came across this gem:

Link to the artist: Remember Remember

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Billionaire dont deserve our respect nor loyalty. They can go fuck themselves for all I care. Dogs however are loyal and love us unconditionally.😂

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Rabid ones will kill you though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

so fucking true which is why we as humans need to increase funding for a crew to help more humans and animals alike.😭

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Rabid dogs are also themselves suffering so much that putting them down is a mercy.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

Bill Burr's project to turn every mansion into Luigi's Mansion

[–] [email protected] 55 points 4 days ago (4 children)

CEOs could maintain control of society while avoiding bad press simply by providing people with what they need—living wages, healthcare, and secure retirement plans. They could still rule while ensuring a fairer system. BUT THEY WONT.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

No, any CEO that tried to do this would get eaten alive, if not immediately by their board/investors then a bit later by competition from more ruthless ceos. In a capitalist system they literally have no other choice.

I don't really see any way to fix it from the inside. Things are going to get a lot worse before they get better, and not by methods they're going to like. I'm with bill burr here

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[–] [email protected] 219 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Burr 2028: Fuck This Bullshit

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 4 days ago

Fucking based, I need more people with focus saying shit the people are thinking.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 4 days ago (11 children)

Maybe we collectively need to recognize billionaires like they recognize their workers. I propose the following:

  1. “Becoming a billionaire” is still a thing that the most aggressive, ambitious sociopaths among us can aspire to. Because they and the broken people that idolize them will insist that great things cannot happen without the promise of great rewards. And obviously the only “reward” of any meaning to them is money.

  2. Once you are a billionaire, you get a nationally broadcast pizza party on CSPAN and we engrave your name into a plaque in some “hall of smart winners” somewhere in DC. You are declared a champion of the economy and the President shakes your hand and declares a one-time national day to be in your honor. Or they read your name during the superbowl that year or whatever. Your place in history is locked in.

  3. Assets and earnings in excess of 1 billion are seized and given to charity, or infrastructure, or healthcare or whatever. Used for the betterment of society. It should be done responsibly in a way that won’t ruin the assets, for example not liquidating billions in stock all at once.

  4. The government publishes a leaderboard every year that shows which Champions of the Economy™️ gave the most back to society that year in the form of excess earnings. And we all pretend that we’re REALLY impressed.

They can have their on-paper status and their superficial adoration they hunger for. And they can even be stupidly rich by ANY standard.

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[–] [email protected] 86 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (11 children)

Imagine if we gave hoarders the same status we give wealthy people.

Like you're invited over for dinner.

You get to the door and ring the bell. They yell, "come in." You push the door open against 10000 stacked news papers pushing back at you. You're instantly hit with the smell of animal feces and urine. You unironically say, "wow, so decadent." You climb over a pile of furniture and to get to a small clearing in with a couch and a coffee table covered in clutter. You tell your host, "So much stuff, I'm so jealous, you truly possess all the worlds material goods." They heat up some discount canned ravioli on a hot plate because the only place in the entire house you can habitate is that small clearing with the couch.

After you finish your fine dining experience you leave and you realize you never once saw any animals.

Hoarding is a disease. Doesn't matter if it's useless garbage or the idea of a pile of money you'll never use.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I always liked the analogy with monkeys in the zoo. Imagine there are 10 monkeys in a cage. Every day you drop in 20 oranges. After a while you realise that one monkey is sitting on a pile of oranges, hoarding them. He can't even eat all the oranges, while some monkeys go hungry. No one would think: "man that must be one smart monkey." You would think something is seriously wrong with that guy.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That's an unfair representation.

Money isn't simply given to Elon every day...

Other people work hard for his money!

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[–] [email protected] 119 points 5 days ago (11 children)

I used to like Bill Burr. Now I love him.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 100 points 5 days ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 144 points 5 days ago (88 children)

Good. Need more of this.

I do think he's quite wealthy though....

[–] [email protected] 203 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (36 children)

His net worth is between $14M and $20M. That's a lot for you and me, but he is nobody for example next to musk's $400B (20,000 times more)

[–] [email protected] 180 points 5 days ago (2 children)

One million seconds is a about 11 days, 1 billion seconds is just under 32 years. People underestimate the difference

[–] zalgotext 91 points 5 days ago (3 children)

The one I've always liked is "the difference between a million dollars and a billion dollars is... about a billion dollars"

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I mean, he is still 980 MILLION dollars away from being a mere billionaire. He is WAAAAAAAAY closer to you and me

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[–] darkdemize 64 points 5 days ago (3 children)

The difference is that he isn't exploiting the labor of others to make most of his wealth. I'm not a huge fan of most celebrities, but at least most of them are actually earning their money by generating demand for their "thing."

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 5 days ago (6 children)

So I guess he’s not welcome on Joe Rogan anymore?

[–] [email protected] 46 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

Correct me if I'm wrong, I haven't listened to Joe Rogan in a decade, but I dont think Bill Burr has been invited on since he (hilariously) called out Joe's anti-vax views back in 2020

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 5 days ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 44 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I feel he is the only person I've seen try to go around and sound like a sane person about this shit. He let's me know I'm not crazy. I hear him from different sources too. He's not just trying for a sound bite on legacy media.

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[–] [email protected] 112 points 5 days ago (7 children)

Thiel should be the first to go, that asshole has been making the rounds recruiting billionaires for a takeover for years

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Hello? Is this the based department?

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 5 days ago (7 children)

The rich are not the problem, the wealthy are the problem. I like the way Chris Rock put it: 'Shaq is rich... The white man who signs his check is wealthy.'

Millions of people could be up there with Bill Burr, if a few hundred wouldn't hoard over half of all wealth in the country.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Man Bill Burr went from being a heel edgelord to a champion of the working class. He's a true American.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Disagree. Rabid dogs who must be euthanized deserve care, compassion, and respect when doing so. Rabies isn't a life choice a dog makes.

Billionaires deserve no such care, compassion, or respect.

also did Bill Burr ever apologize for all the transphobic shit he's said recently? Don't get me wrong, I'm happy with anyone of any walk of life gaining class consciousness, especially if they talk about it. But it'd be even better if he's stopped being transphobic on top of that.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Bros humor is salty as hell but i like it. Kinda a hookers and cocaine kind of leftist.

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