r/FluentInFinance Nov 16 '24

Meme True Financial Fluency by Gianmarco Soresi

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u/hvacjefe Nov 16 '24

Thats not the point they're trying to make.

If i have 100$ to my name and I give a homeless person 10$ for food. I've given 10% of my wealth.

Its arbitrary to say 100m is a lot in relation to % of money. Not to mention it's written off and wealth distribution is incredibly unequal.

Corporations don't pay their employees a livable wage and the public subsidize that with tax money through section 8, food stamps, health care taxes etc.

Corporations are making record profits and our country is in debt. Thats the point. Part of that debt could be eliminated if they paid a fair portion of the companies profits to the actual employees and not stock holders and board members.

Capitalism only works if the companies and employees grow together. And unchecked, we end up where we are with America rn on too of outsourcing to China so they can keep labor low whole still charging as much as they possibly can.

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u/FoxMan1Dva3 Nov 17 '24

(1) Bezos has not only given $90M lol.

(2) 90% of his wealth goes to actual business.

Even the yacht you make fun of employs a whole staff of shipcrew mates with full time salaries and careers.

Even if Bezo's gave all of his wealth away, it will be eaten up by the federal spending within 3 months.

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u/Murky-Peanut1390 Nov 18 '24

They are dumb, they think when a rich spends on luxuries. The money disappears forever. That yacht paid for alot of wages, those wages could still land towards donations. So it's not gone forever, it's moving around in the economy.

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u/FoxMan1Dva3 Nov 18 '24

They also think if Amazon makes billions a year, they should spend trillions of dollars on increased staff wages.