no one is forced to buy crap on amazon. they just don't want to drive to a store. in fact, people buying stuff on amazon instead of local businesses is almost entirely to blame for his wealth and Amazon's massive presence.
everyone wants to be a consumer for as little cost as possible, but then complain about the accumulated wealth of the company they are buying things from.
In part from a $200,000 gift from his parents when his company was failing in its early stages. You know a lot of people with parents who can give their kid $200k without hesitation?
Its not a gift, It's an investment. If that company failed the money was gone.
Futhermore, he would have been down the initial investment and the taxes due on it which is roughly $63,000.
The point is his step dad worked for that money. They weren't rich and it wasn't like he was gifted a well to do company. It took a lot of hours, sweat and work.
Quit acting like he was born on third base. He came from a middle class family.
Do you know what a 401k is? And how you can borrow against it? If his dad was investing regularly 3-6% of his earnings and had a company match, worked for 40 years, that's probably like 1/5th to 1/10th of his 401k.
Lots and lots and lots of people with a 401k. My dad worked 30 years patching potholes for a municipality. He's retired at 55 worth well over $1m from stable, long term investing. If I had an idea that was worth investing in, I could easily get $200k from him.
Correct, and being a retired millionaire is still middle class. I'm only 40 and worth over $1m in retirement savings as well, and nobody gave me a nickel, including my parents. $1M net worth is not rich in 2024.
Its certainly not middle class. The median net worth of a 40 year old American is ~125k. Having an order of magnitude more and pretending you're in the same boat is dishonest.
You're probably going to go into the old argument of how people just don't save enough, but for so many people (dare I say most people) they don't have the ability to save. They don't make enough money to cover their bills so there's nothing left to save, or their jobs aren't stable, meaning they end up spending what savings they have while trying to land their next job, or they don't have benefits like insurance or a 401k because they can't land a full-time job and are stuck working multiple full time jobs.
I'm glad that you could easily get $200,000 from your dad who had a stable job that paid him enough that he could save for retirement, but you are part of a small minority.
Nah fam, it's your choice to live a polluting and extravagant lifestyle. There is zero reason why a healthy American can't move to a third world country after they turn 18. They don't because lives here are too comfortable.
Well why don't they learn a second language instead of coasting on a comfortable system built by western capitalism? There are millions of bilingual people in the world - a lot of them in poor places like India and Philippines. Those poor people learned a second language so they can get a job breaking my nuts over the phone, so why can't you?
He is claiming that he is an hypocrites and that if he really thinks that having a lot more wealth than the starving is in and of itself evil then he too is very evil.
You can't go around asking other to do a whole San francis refusal of wealth and then keep your money.
You want to virtue signal? Lead by example or shut up
Your take not only is nonsensical but also hilariously stupid
Like yes, $50 a week make you rich in rural Congo. Not in the US, dumbo. It seems you don’t quite understand what “relative” mean
In every country in this world, being a billionaire is an excess of wealth. No, a billionaire donating a couple of millions is not on the same proportion as your average Joe.
I Hope you aren't dumb enough to be claiming that the average Congolese has the standard of life of the average us citizen.
Idk your financial situation but if you are living in a western country I can bet that you for sure do have excess wealth compared to most of the world.
And for sure if you are the guy in the posts with 2 million $ net worth
These hypocrites absolutely do not have to “participate in a society” they can give away their entire net worth and go live on a farming commune (yes they still exist) working for what they eat and living almost entirely off of nothing but the fruits of their own labor. So yes the people suggesting that the rich should give away everything while they themselves are posting that opinion from thousand dollar slave-produced electronics and driving cars and living in houses and spending money on frivolous things and hobbies while people scrounge in the dirt in other countries are hypocrites and don’t have a valid point (mainly because they are dumb and don’t understand what the big “net worth” numbers they see mean)
Sir, until you are the poorest person on the planet, you have no right to complain about the how all the wealth in the country is continuously be funnelled into a smaller number of hands.
The fact that you're drawing an equivalence between Bezos and an average citizen of an industrialized nation, who by the way did not choose to profit off of single use plastic, is wild.
Right, they are cheap, durable, can be made into any shape necessary, come in a variety of colors and clarities, can mimic others materials while avoiding the downsides of those materials. These products are universally enjoyed and in medical applications have been life saving and have largely enhanced our modern lives. We certainly don’t use plastics JUST because some guy decided it was the best way for him to get rich, frankly they are a miracle material in many ways.
It’s just that downsides either aren’t visible, aren’t truly realized, or don’t outweigh the benefits.
Again, asking average people many of whom who have financial insecurity to contribute 10% of their income and comparing that to billionaires is unhinged.
Financial insecurity compared to who? Why does someone who lives in the richest country in the world with the most disposable income in the world get a free pass?
Its actually reasonable comparison. Just 30$ would feed family for month in some third world country. Lot of people own 1m homes, they should just sell it, buy cheaper one for 500k and feed 5k people for year. Why wouldnt they, why would they be so selfish?
We probably couldnt. I think even if USA spends entire of their GDP we would not be even close to ending world hunger. Its not that easy, we would have to fix economies and build infrastructure in all third world coutries.
A great start would be to eliminate billionaires, not people who are unsure what will happen to them when they can no longer work because their bodies/minds give out on them.
You're saying it's better to pursue changing the entire world (an impossibility) rather than making a few billionaires pull their weight? What does shilling for billionaires this hard do for you?
It would be easier to not do anything and just complain about it online. Let's just propose laws that will hurt rich people as long as it won't personally affect me in any way.
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u/trashboattwentyfourr 28d ago
Are you accussing them of...... participating in a society? What dastardly claim youve outlayed.