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I have no specific issue with millionaires. You work for 40 years and save up a nest egg so you can survive retirement. A million or two is totally reasonable for the golden years.
Billionaires, on the other hand? They don't need all that money, but they always want more.
And the fact that we could see Musk become a trillionaire? Well, spellcheck says that isn't a valid word, which is usually indicative of something so far from normal that even a computer can't comprehend the scale.
He could literally send the full trillion dollars to the U.S. Treasury to cover the tax breaks for the ultrawealthy passed past year and end up a pauper billionaire.
For people who believe money doesn't really exist, they sure do want more and more of it.
I agree.. what the fuck is the difference of 10 billion and 110 billion?
If you had 110 billion you could spend 5 million per day for 60 years.... why the FUCK does a single person need that amount of money??
Yachts. Lots and lots of yachts. As though you can ride on more than one at a time.
Two yachts at the same time, man.
No lie, if I had that kind of money I'd pay my taxes in full and fuck off to the Bahamas with an entire year of calendar models, and still have money to hook my wife up with all the cabana boys she wants, and still have enough to create scholarships for huge numbers of kids to go to college and still have enough to invest in green energy and vaccines and low-cost insulin and still have enough money to pay for food and medicine assistance to underdeveloped nations and still....
Well you get the idea. It's a ridiculous amount of money.
The absurdity is hiding in plain sight, but good Christians seem to forget that money is the root of all evil.
To be pedantic, it's the love of money that is the root of all evil.
I'm an atheist. I only read the bible cover to cover once, years ago, to figure out what all the hubbub was about, so I may be a bit rusty. I do seem to recall the bit about "love thy neighbour."
I like the Jesus guy. Almost everyone else sucks.
Agreed.
I read it a few times. Mostly to get time out of a cell.
And to argue with the ones who use it to hate others.
Jesus clearly instructed us to hate our fellow man.
Love thy neighbor as thyself.
If they hate themselves, I guess that holds.
That is fucking brilliant. I'd not considered the self-loathing that makes hatred a valid option within the rules.
Like:
•Thou shall not covet thy neighbors wife.
All other wives, daughters, and twinks are fair game.
•Thou shall not kill.
The military and police can do that.
•Thou shall not steal.
I'm just taking what's rightfully mine.
Etc.
The commandments weren't exactly a legal document. Loopholes everywhere.
You only need $1 million for that. "Hey, Peter, check out channel 9!"
I don't know the limit to how many FDIC accounts one is allowed to have open simultaneously, but I know the insured amount of $250k USD per account. I feel like the interest alone in a few accounts would be reasonable enough for the average American to live off of.
Depending on your investments, the interest and dividends off a few million dollars should be able to sustain someone entirely on its own while still growing in value over time.
You don't need to be a billionaire for that. It feels like the tax brackets need to go up to 100% after around a million or so in income.
$2m in a stock that pays a 6% dividend is 120 grand a year. Pretty easy to live comfortably off of that I would imagine.
So, slightly above the 1950s marginal tax rate that gave us the society the GOP wants to drag us back into without taxing the rich? That's a stool with one leg.
If you're a billionaire, you park your money in offshore tax havens and don't worry about FDIC limits.
100% tax on any wealth over 10 million.
The market will make what the market will bear. If a whole bunch of SpaceX fanboys decide to buy at the valuation, then it will exist.
Same reason some doofuses thought that a bunch of bits tied to a bunch of other bits that were in the shape of a funky monkey was worth millions and now it’s worth thousands.
I still store my urine, convinced that it will someday be my retirement plan.
Relevant- around 5:45
https://youtu.be/PlUZv0BV7aw
When it's just a number on a screen it's easy to treat it like a high score in a game. I think they'd still be that way if it was all physical though
My spellcheck doesn't recognize exabyte and zettabyte yet either. Same issue of common use and scale.