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[A thin boy in ragged clothing holds out a bowl to an overweight Elon Musk]
Musk: Society needs billionaires, we keep you from starving.
Boy: Please, I’m starving. Can you help me?
Musk: Fuck you.
That cybertruck torso
The piss stain in his pants from the Ket bladder.
Fantastic. This is a more accurate picture of musk than any photo I've seen.
My son’s high school has been without air conditioning for 2 years. I asked around the cost of repair is near 150k
Of course this means our government is garbage, but at the same time there are 20 billionaires living in my city. You’d think one of these fucks would be like “fuck dude, no ac in the school?? I’ll pay that bill right away” but no, Thats not how they think
I hear something similar in small organizations. One guy can set up a mutual aid effort and someone else can do start a mildly controversial thing and you can see the attention get split.
Something something billionaires are mentally ill
Farmers keep people from starving. Governments subsidize farmers to keep prices low. Subsidies come from taxes collected from regular people. So people keep themselves from starving by helping farmers.
Body is a Cyber truck but the face is anemic
Lazy kid needs to hit the streets for the a job instead of trying to mooch off of the job creators. /s
He certainly yearns for the mines, he just needs to look deep inside himself
Let me ask you a very simple question:
How do billionaires keep people from starving?
QUICKLY.
By not paying enough tax so that all schools can offer free meals.
Do all schools have enough funds to offer free school meals? No? Tax wealth above 1bn until they do.
I hear that kid is a pedophile
Billionaire "charities": The billionaires own your workplace. They underpay you but it would be even worse if you didn't have any job, isn't it? They sell you garbage products, but haven't you thought that the fact everyone else also use them might be a sign that it's actually good, you're just too needy? They help fascists into power, but did you know that communism killed more by numbers? And no more vaccines for Africa, because they now want disease-driven eugenics.
The PRIMARY reason Elon Musk is ALLOWED to hold that much nonexistent money is because the alt-right pipeline starts in middle school, where kids are starting to form their own identities, and having the biggest autistic tech bro HOLD the most money INFLUENCES the youth - primarily unsocialized boys - thus resulting in this swath of a demographic positively influenced by Musk to consciously and unconsciously choose to go into STEM, thus ensuring the next generation of Americans has enough XYZ workers as They predict They will need in ten years. That what it means when your culture is engineered; we create multiple pipelines to get boys to do the work to become men, cuz the girls generally know what to do BUT THERE ARE EXCEPTIONS ACROSS AXISES!
Just chiming in to say OP I've seen a couple of your posts before, but this is the first time I ever clicked on your pfp out of curiousity, and it's hilarious hahaha 10/10
“Poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich.”
This should be repeated as often as possible.
A business is made, and is successful. WELL DONE.
Instead of a billion dollars going to the owner and, let's say, 100K in salary to each worker... what if the CEO only made 100 million, and the employees each made 500K in salary?
Is that communism?
what if the CEO only made 100 million, and the employees each made 500K in salary?
The Raytheon Strategy.
Works great if you're trying to bribe Nazi ex-pats into compliance while fighting a war of arms escalation.
Is that communism?
True Communism can only be achieved if we wipe all the current communists off the map, take their stuff, and impose "democracy" through an occupying military.
To play devil's advocate they would reply that without the owner there would be 0 salary for each worker.
And you have to be careful. CEO and owner most of the time isn't the same person.
"If you weren't my slave then you'd have nothing to eat at all."
Of course, this argument is a pretty piss poor one when the example held up is Musk...
His first jolt was selling a website to a relatively clueless Compaq that did nothing with it except throw money at Elon. No idea if Elon's site was any good or not, but it didn't matter because the reality is that it folded without an enduring impact as part of the dot-com collapse. He used his winnings to try to make X.com the first time, and was a comparative failure next to Paypal, which, somehow, agreed to merge and put him in charge and he almost tanked it. Then ebay bought it out and Musk got maddening amount of money for doing nothing but screw it up.
Tesla is probably the first example of him not actively screwing it up, though his drama around "I wanna call myself a founder" was dumb. That said, any investor could have done it, so his 'value' was his lottery-like wins leading to that point.
There are others that are arguable, though recently had it happen where someone kept giving out names of impressive and seemingly valuable 'billionaires', and we kept checking and every last one were 'only' millionaires. So it seems like 'billionaire' remains a stupidly over the top concept that isn't particularly redeemable, with the defensibly decent folks staying under a billion through not being super greedy and/or philanthropy.