Comment on Dude Uses Rice to Show How Much a Billion Dollars Is, Then How Rich Jeff Bezos Is | NowThis

Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• AlteredStateBlob@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  People really need to learn that you have almost infinite leverage and credit with net worth and wealth like Bezos. Man will never have to spend a cent of his own illiquid assets and will live like an emperor until he dies still.

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  • Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Agreed. That’s included in the learning process about the differences of cash and wealth.

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• jpreston2005@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  people need to learn that 99% of the populations health, education, freedom, and happiness is being actively sabotaged by 1% of the people. If that 1% was anyone but the rich and powerful, we’d have done something about it by now. You shilling for our continued subservience is pathetic.

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  • Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Facts before feelings. Many of the people here downvoting me genuinely think people like Bezos or Musk are just sitting in a pile of cash choosing to hoard money instead of helping the less fortunate.

    Also - you’re part of the 1%. What are you doing to help the 99%?

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    • Tavarin@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Musk managed to get his hands on $44 billion to buy twitter pretty easily. They may not be sitting on a literal pile of cash, but the ultra-wealthy can always get easy access to it.

      And Bezos had a take home amount of $4 billion in 2019, not his stock, his take home cash for one year. That’s an absurd amount of money.

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• Serdan@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why?

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