• Smuuthbrane
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    9610 months ago

    I don’t have to chop, stew, dismember, or sell a $5 bill. False equivalency argument.

  • catsarebadpeople
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    6310 months ago

    His parents were rich and the reason he’s more rich is that he exploits lots and lots of people.

    • @Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
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      3710 months ago

      Every single billionaire got there by exploiting and taking money from the people below him, who did most of the actual work. Nobody can earn a billion dollars, you can only do it by stealing. Buffet and Gates are the worst cause they try so hard to play the good guy billionaire image

      • @LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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        710 months ago

        I assume your downvotes are from billionaires. If not, that’s just sad. If you’re defending billionaires and aren’t one yourself, I regret to inform you that you’re a mark.

      • catsarebadpeople
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        1110 months ago

        If that actually happens then he’ll no longer be a billionaire and that will be great. Until then he deserves the guillotine. Say it with me, there is zero reason for anyone to have a billion dollars and if they do the only way they have a billion dollars is by hurting other people. Every penny over a quarter billion (and that’s generous), could have been given back to the labor that created it or directly to the supposed charities that he’s giving to now. If you trust a single word a billionaire says then you’re a fool.

        • @KevonLooney@lemm.ee
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          410 months ago

          Dude breaks records for donating money to charity, has nothing named after him, is giving less than 1% to his kids (who run charities), lives in the same house he bought in the 50s, has no multimillion dollar yacht, has convinced dozens of billionaires to donate most of their money to charity, campaigns for higher taxes on billionaires like himself…

          and you say he’s not doing enough.

          Here’s Bernie Sanders talking about him:

          https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/warren-buffett-right-class-war-taxes-rich-bernie-sanders-2020-8-1029532804?op=1

            • @sunbeam60@lemmy.one
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              310 months ago

              Why don’t you cool it a bit with the evocative language? It’s not the same as a slave talking about their “owner” and we all know it.

              • catsarebadpeople
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                210 months ago

                Wow yep. That’s the real issue here. People need to stop calling out billionaires and focus on the exact definition of modern wage slavery. Good thing you’re here to wave your hands around or folks might notice that their pockets are being picked by the ruling class.

        • @soviettaters@lemm.ee
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          -610 months ago

          I don’t need to trust what he says, he’s already doing it. I can’t imagine living my life hating people for simply being smart money managers. It must be awfully depressing to do that.

          • catsarebadpeople
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            1010 months ago

            Seems like your reading comprehension needs some work. I don’t hate billionaires because they’re “smart money managers” lol. Keeping drinking that capitalist Kool aid. You are being exploited. Stop licking the boots of your masters.

      • @DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        410 months ago

        Hasn’t done it yet and even if he does it will be to a charity he and his family will have control of. They’ll still control the money and have the power that comes with.

        Same with the Patagonia guy and his family. It’s all bullshit to make liberals gush over them.

  • @epyon22@programming.dev
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    5510 months ago

    Average net worth for 35-44 year olds $135 thousand his net worth $119.2 billion. $5 equivalent for him is ~$4,414,814.81

  • @TheGreenGolem@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4310 months ago

    Then they dare to go buy some fucking avocado toast and a mokke lattchiato or whatever the hell, on their fucking bikes with THEIR FUCKING HELMET ON!

    • @Godric@lemmy.world
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      510 months ago

      Dude literally just find more dead squirrels for avocado toast money, it’s that simple

      • @theneverfox@pawb.social
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        310 months ago

        No, you don’t understand the problem with avocado toast. You see, bread is a great source of carbs, and combined with the rind of the avocado, the scraps are a super food that leaves squirrels full of energy and with a thick coat that makes them neigh immortal

        When’s the last time you saw a dead squirrel ripe for the picking? It was free money

  • @ikidd@lemmy.world
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    2510 months ago

    As someone that’s shot a few squirrels for tying flies with, I’d just buy the damn tails. Squirrels are filthy little beasts and have a pile of parasites that crawl off them when they’re dead.

      • @ikidd@lemmy.world
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        They can be destructive fuckers. And, little known fact, red squirrels are the largest predator of juvenile rabbits.

        Tasty, tasty rabbits.

        • Flying Squid
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          210 months ago

          A squirrel tore up one of our lawn chair cushions to make its nest. Little piece of shit. Then bits of lawn chair stuffing blew all over the neighborhood that winter.

          • @ikidd@lemmy.world
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            210 months ago

            I was wondering why I wasn’t getting telemetry from my watering bowls and started tracking down the issue. I had leaned a pole with a LoRa antenna up against a tree, and one of the little bastards chewed the line through in about a dozen spots. If they get in the soffet of a house they’ll tear all the insulation out, then store thousands of spruce cones in there, making a lovely fire hazard.

            Hate them almost as much as mice.