• HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca
      38·
      16 days ago

      I’m pretty sure that he said that with that very thought in mind. Like a thinly veiled fuck you to the non-Epstein class.

    • iThinkDifferentThanU@lemmy.world
      162·
      16 days ago

      Do it… Do it… Do it… Here’s some rope something to use to ‘reward’ them for ‘their’ hard work & for your travels 🥇(closest I could find in emojis

      • k0e3@lemmy.ca
        8·
        16 days ago

        American government/police couldn’t even stop the MAGA idiots from storming the damn Capitol Building. I doubt any hired goons would seriously be willing to put themselves between billionaires and a pissed off mob.

    • BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      111·
      16 days ago

      Was going to say this, he’s technically right because he pays so little in taxes to begin with. I am honestly more of a believer in a flat tax for the rich now than progressive tax structure. But they’d find some way to weasel out of it so there’s only one solution to them.

    • Shindo66@lemmy.world
      161·
      16 days ago

      We really could just do that. He and others would fight like hell, but why couldn’t it be done? It needs to be done.

      • ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
        12·
        16 days ago

        Supposedly most of their profits come from AWS, so they wouldn’t even stop making money if the marketplace was nationalized.

        • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.ukEnglish
          12·
          16 days ago

          Honestly a nationalised AWS would be a way bigger boon to the economy, and he could go back to cornering the market on diapers or whatever fuck him

      • FlyingCircus@lemmy.world
        1·
        15 days ago

        I agree. The entire economy should be nationalized. Except instead of rich capitalists running the state, we should make sure it’s regular working class people, and we should make sure that the profits go to the people who actually created it, like you and me and every other working person.

    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
      31·
      16 days ago

      It should be sold to the public as free market competition.

      “We are taking over Amazon because government is inefficient and wasteful. This will allow American small business ingenuity to crush the government Amazon and replace it with a free market alternative.”

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    24·
    16 days ago

    You could take 90% of his wealth and he’d still have more than 99.999% of the rest of the country.

    He didn’t earn that money. He’s just a squatter making money on everyone else’s work. Stfu you whiner, Bezos.

  • Zink@programming.dev
    14·
    16 days ago

    The guy with all the money says that other people getting some of the money wouldn’t help them.

    And in the US a huge number of people just nod along because our culture tells us that net worth = human worth = intelligence = trustworthiness.

    There’s no continuing the thought, like if the money won’t help struggling teachers then why is it so important that it stay with the person who already has ten thousand times the amount of money that would make a teacher rich and set for life?

    • ArmchairAce1944@lemmy.ca
      5·
      16 days ago

      Have you heard the song ‘If I were a rich man’ from Fiddler on the roof? One of the lyrics was that if he was a rich man people would flock to him ask him questions that ‘would cross a Rabbi’s eyes’ meaning they would be complicated. And he says that it would not matter if he was wrong or right since being rich alone is what gives you credibility.

  • inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world
    13·
    16 days ago

    Said without irony as he sits in front of his personal vanity rocket. How many teachers could we pay a decent wage with that thing Jeff? What would we lose? Sending Katy Perry and her flower to space?

  • DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works
    11·
    14 days ago

    Yeah, Bezos pays almost nothing in income tax compared to his wealth.

    Double of almost nothing is still almost nothing. So I guess he’s technically right, which is usually the best type of right…but.

  • DupaCycki@lemmy.world
    10·
    16 days ago

    “I promise you, it wouldn’t work. Actually, it’d make everything worse. So just trust me and don’t try it. It’s for your own good. I know what I’m talking about. You know I’d never lie, right? So no matter what happens, don’t try it. Okay?”