All billionaires deserve the vast majority of their wealth to be seized, but I vote we spare this one the guillotine.
Thank you to Howard G. Buffett!
I am glad that Howard Buffett has a sober understanding of how the russians operate. They will not engage in good faith unless you demonstrate that you are able and willing to fuck them up.
So if Warren wants to do the morally correct thing why doesn’t he hire assassins to kill the bad billionaires?
So if Warren wants to do the morally correct thing why doesn’t he hire assassins to kill the bad billionaires?
Most people prefer to stay out of prison.
A good person turning into a billionare by accident would donate all his extra money away as soon as he gets them. There aren’t any good billionares.
I have mixed feelings about this headline. On the one hand, it’s good to see this much money going to a good cause. On the other hand, I firmly oppose the ability of any one person to control this much money.
Compare this one guy’s donation to a good cause against all the other billionaires donating money to the Heritage Foundation, MAGA, etc
Yeah, we know. There’s hundreds of opportunities to complain about its use for evil. Let’s just appreciate it for what it is.
Sounds like those motherfuckers need to pay some taxes, clearly.
That’s your take away?
Absolutely. What other reasonable response is there?
It’s easy to say the right things when you know you’re never going to be held accountable for your words.
That’s your takeaway?
Yes. If we lived in another reality, and there was a true progressive about to pass a 100% tax on all wealth over a billion dollars, Warren would be showing is true colors very, very quickly. It’s easy to say the right thing on this because he knows he’ll never have to pay a dime more than he does right now.
He’s a dragon among 700 or so other dragons sitting on unimaginable wealth that he will never spend in his lifetime. He deserves nothing but disrespect.
It’s easy to say the right thing on this because he knows he’ll never have to pay a dime more than he does right now.
And it’s easy to make sweeping statements based purely on hypotheticals and your own assumptions. In our reality, he’s one of the biggest advocates for raising his own taxes.
about to pass a 100% tax on all wealth over a billion dollars
Here’s the first sentence of that article that you didn’t read:
A 70% marginal tax rate. A 77% estate tax. A 3% tax on every dollar over $1 billion of net worth.
Yep. A single billionaire funding a war effort is abhorrent.
This one happens to be on the right side, but there’s absolutely no guarantee that his will be the case for any of these fucking psychopaths.who horde wealth. They all need to go.
Counterpoint - under the current administration, paying taxes might help Russia more
But would the current administration be the current administration without wealth hoarding psychopaths?
It wouldn’t, but I think that ship has sailed already. I don’t see how your current governmental structure would ever fix that. It’s been a problem since citizens united, if not before
Except he’s not funding a war, he’s funding the defense of a nation fighting for freedom and its right to exist.
Ukraine didn’t get in this war as a pissing match with Russia. It was wrongly attacked and is a democracy defending itself. It’s had its children kidnapped and its civilians targeted. It will cease to exist if it loses. We don’t have a greedy capitalist funding an unjust war for profit as you’re trying to suggest. Helping Ukraine is the right thing to do. Refusing to help them will simply result in Europe fighting a better-resourced Russia later.
We don’t have a greedy capitalist funding an unjust war for profit as you’re trying to suggest.
Yet.
Fuck this asshole for existing - I don’t give a shit what he does, good or bad, because no single person should get to decide what happens to that much stolen wealth.
Billionaires should not exist, but in a world where they do the ones that give away some of their billions are less terrible than the others.
“In a world filled with rapists one who raped only a woman is less terrible than someone who raped 10.”
Yes, no shit that he’s less terrible compared to others but he’s still one of the greediest human being on the planet and he doesn’t deserve any praise.
What’s with this fixation on rape metaphors?
Just gonna spell this out real quick. Having a father who made many billions trading shares is not at all similar to raping a woman.
Additionally, there are extraordinarily few people who would not choose to be a billionaire.
It’s easy to suggest that you’re a better person than any billionaire simply because the odds are that you (nor me, nor any of us) will ever be one. However, if the fairy god mother appeared right now and offered you $1b you would instantly become “one of the greediest human beings on the planet” by your own definition.
What’s with this fixation on rape metaphors?
People fail to realize how evil billionares are and so you have to come up with stupid comparisons. A billion in money is the equivalent of owning hundred of thousands cars or houses, they affect society negatively more than a single murderer would do. Criminality and people losing their shit is partially the result of a society where people are exploited and turn against each other to make profits. Billionares are the ones who sit on top of this rigged pyramid.
if the fairy god mother appeared right now and offered you $1b you would instantly become “one of the greediest human beings on the planet” by your own definition.
Any normal person that wins a billion dollar would keep some for himself and gift or donate the rest with the result that they wouldn’t be a billionare anymore. A billion is simply a ridiculous amount of money, you could buy a castle, invest 100 millions in the stock market and you would still be left with most of it.
I have mixed feelings. His gist is basically that he agrees billionaires shouldn’t exist and that there’s no ethical billionaire and he wants reforms to make it so they don’t. But he argues that we live in a system where billionaires are inevitable and that it would be stupid not to invest wisely and make billions if he can because if he doesn’t someone else just will and he can use the money for good.
However, even if you buy this narrative of good billionaire, you can just look to his ties will Bill Gates and the Bill and Melinda gates foundation to see that, even if he did mean well, his perception on how to do good is completely twisted.
Oh no, not that horrible person Bill Gates who checks notes saved 50 million peoples lives
Yeah I don’t understand this bizarre hatred for Gates.
How many other billionaires are spending their fortunes trying to help the most vulnerable people?
Bill gates put a lot of effort into making monopolies. He tried to stomp out Linux. And, part of his whole weird philantrophy was trying to circumcise the men of Africa to save them from aids but inadvertanly likely increased the spread of aids which is just one case study in how his foundation can help but also does harmful bananas shit.
Listen to the behind the bastards on him. Warren buffet might get a pass if you squint, but Bill Gates is a bastard.
Edit: I would like to say that “increased the spread of aids” is probably misleading in that I make it sound like the program overall increased AIDS in Africa. That is not true. There is controversial evidence that circumcision may decrease the spread of AIDS. There’s controversial evidence that circumcision led the risky behavior in circumcised men who felt they were immune after circumcision. The data, since its an uncontrollable population study, is messy. But, Bills foundation involvent in Africa has had many unintended consequences across the continent that has saves some lives and cost others and no one man should have such strong say on the health policies of an entire continent. Personally, I also feel very strongly no one man should have such strong sway on campaigns which result is mass surgery on the genitals of an entirely different group of men when there are arguably better ways to mitigate disease transmission.
Fifty. MILLION.
The man should literally be made into a saint. “Oooh Linux blah blah” FIFTY FUCKING MILLION LIVES SAVED. The man has far outweighed anything bad he’s ever done in his life.
The man should literally be made into a saint
The man fucked children with Epstein, be absolutely shouldn’t you fucking weirdo
To the downvotes: weirdly simping for somebody who repeatedly flew the Lolita Express? Y’all fuck Kids too, huh?
