Poll of the Day > US 7 wealthiest have made a combined +200 billion since the start of pandemic

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Pretty sickening. Great job shutting things down and killing all their smaller competition.

Just tell me none of em are in the medical field please.

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Bill also does a lot of good and donates much of his money for benevolent purposes and charities though.

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Im sure hundreds of thousands/millions of people dying from not shutting down would have been really great for the economy!!!

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are you saying amazon shouldn't have taken more orders?

it's not their fault that cowards shut down everything
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A government lockdown is basically like handing Amazon free money. Also that's net wealth, meaning that Amazon's stock is up.

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No women on that list, obviously they should each give 50 billion to Oprah or something

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Dude. Youre comparing bottom of stock market to now.

They couldve spent their time in solitary confinement and made that much money...

Not all, but anything thats about a 50% increase is just following the market. Left wing agenda has been obnoxious lately.

I'm sure it'll start trickling down any day now.

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As long as the 7 wealthiest people keep getting wealthier, everyone is safe. /s

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Lmao everything was shut down what did you expect???

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ok?

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I mean, how is Amazon surprising? Their main job is to bring shit to you.

papercup posted...

I'm sure it'll start trickling down any day now.

Considering that almost all of their wealth is in stock evaluations, there's nothing to trickle.

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Once again youve proven that dont understand whats going on here. This is how Republicans work. They only care about the top 10% having money and they dont care about anyone below.

Trump himself has made sure these people have profited (as well as himself and any of his other billionaire friends)

if youre going to blame anyone, blame them.

You know you really dont need a new topic for each and every time you wanna piss and moan about the lockdown

no one likes it. Everyone is stressed the fuck out and wants things to get back to normal. You acting like an ass and spamming up the board with this bullshit doesnt do anyone any favors

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And?

Like, really though, whats the point of this topic? To complain about people who came up with ideas that you didnt? To complain about the lockdown?

Id be willing to bet that if you were in their position, you wouldnt part with a single cent.

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It makes sense that Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk went up.
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rexcrk posted...

And?

Like, really though, whats the point of this topic? To complain about people who came up with ideas that you didnt? To complain about the lockdown?

Id be willing to bet that if you were in their position, you wouldnt part with a single cent.

You new here?

Those people have too much money, which means their wealth should be stolen and given all the poor, POOR people who are obviously suffering due to the evil of capitalism, patriarchy, and other assortment of dumb shit leftists like to blame on their woes and not due to their poor life choices. Following that re-distribution of wealth, all those poor people's problems are going to be fixed, they'll never be poor ever again, and the evil of capitalism, which has shown to be so much less efficient than all communist/socialist ideologies in the past, will forever disappear. And everyone will be happy! Look at how the CHAZ was a complete success!

Now want to hear something scary? Some idiots actually believe this will and should happen.

TLDR: People with money bad. Steal from them and give them to us and everything will be alright.

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To be fair, this is just because our economic system is set up to enrich people whose services get used the most, and quarantine just naturally favors the digital economy. It's not like any of them deliberately engaged in any kind of theft.

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ComradeSeraphim posted...

To be fair, this is just because our economic system is set up to enrich people whose services get used the most, and quarantine just naturally favors the digital economy. It's not like any of them deliberately engaged in any kind of theft.

They have money, so obviously they did something evil at some point. Thus, we've morally obligated to steal their money. It's what morally good people should do.


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SonyMichel posted...

Once again youve proven that dont understand whats going on here. This is how Republicans work. They only care about the top 10% having money and they dont care about anyone below.

Trump himself has made sure these people have profited (as well as himself and any of his other billionaire friends)

if youre going to blame anyone, blame them.

Once again you've proven you don't understand what's going on or how things work... wait, is this KingMicheal's new acct? Because that actually explains a lot of shit.


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SonyMichel posted...

This is how Republicans work.

Most of the people on that list are strongly affiliated and support corporate shill democrats like Joe Biden. These people want big businesses and big government to control and have practically a monopoly over your life and this pandemic has been their excuse to do just that.

MartianManchild posted...

Most of the people on that list are strongly affiliated and support corporate shill democrats like Joe Biden. These people want big businesses and big government to control and have practically a monopoly over your life and this pandemic has been their excuse to do just that.

For fucks sake. Elon Musk had a successful space launch.
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Yeah screw the small companies that's actually trying to do the right thing like actually paying their taxes and just trying to be decent human beings.

Letting the giant corporations get even more monopoly than they already have will surely not backfire in any way for all of us plebs.
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LeetCheet posted...

Yeah screw the small companies that's actually trying to do the right thing like actually paying their taxes and just trying to be decent human beings.

Letting the giant corporations get even more monopoly than they already have will surely not backfire in any way for all of us plebs.

Yeah those smaller space companies sure are struggling.
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The lockdown is absolutely a wet dream for the big megacorporations. Small and mid size businesses are being decimated and all that will be left in the aftermath of this is giant corporations

OhhhJa posted...

The lockdown is absolutely a wet dream for the big megacorporations. Small and mid size businesses are being decimated and all that will be left in the aftermath of this is giant corporations

pizza hut will win the war
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Krazy_Kirby posted...

pizza hut will win the war

Both Taco bell and Pizza hut are owned by Yum! so yeah, it's fairly likely Yum! will win and everywhere will soon be Taco bell.

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The_tall_midget posted...

You new here?

Those people have too much money, which means their wealth should be stolen and given all the poor, POOR people who are obviously suffering due to the evil of capitalism, patriarchy, and other assortment of dumb shit leftists like to blame on their woes and not due to their poor life choices. Following that re-distribution of wealth, all those poor people's problems are going to be fixed, they'll never be poor ever again, and the evil of capitalism, which has shown to be so much less efficient than all communist/socialist ideologies in the past, will forever disappear. And everyone will be happy! Look at how the CHAZ was a complete success!

Now want to hear something scary? Some idiots actually believe this will and should happen.

TLDR: People with money bad. Steal from them and give them to us and everything will be alright.

Oh I know lol. I just love calling these people out on their nonsense

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7 people in a country of 300M plus. Hmmm the game is rigged.

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You mean stock traders moved their investments from higher risk companies to the larger, too-big-to-fail companies.

Large organisations are inherently more stable than smaller ones with more diversification potential, it's one of the hundreds of ways wealth gain is exponential, not linear.
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breaking news: having money is the best way to make more money

I do enjoy the idea that the people who bitch about all the world's wealth pooling in a single location are often the same people who want to remove borders and have the world's power pooled together in a single location.
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The_tall_midget posted...

TLDR: People with money bad. Steal from them and give them to us and everything will be alright.

This but without the sarcasm.

Bezos is still a piece of **** though. Treats his employees like shit. Making bank of their backs.
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Fazeo13 posted...

Bezos is still a piece of **** though. Treats his employees like shit. Making bank of their backs.

I think that's more to do with the nature of the work at Amazon being super difficult, rather than anything Jeff Bezos is personally doing.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK__9UIN5gk

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LeetCheet posted...

Yeah screw the small companies that's actually trying to do the right thing like actually paying their taxes and just trying to be decent human beings.

Letting the giant corporations get even more monopoly than they already have will surely not backfire in any way for all of us plebs.

....again, this is mostly just changes in stock prices. It has little to do with anything, although obviously Amazon itself is doing well in the pandemic because it's the largest online retailer at a time when stores have been closed by lockdown orders (mostly be DEMOCRAT governors, contrary to assertions), are having fulfillment issues, and a lot of customers don't want to risk their health going out.

As for the idea that small companies are somehow better, they generally aren't. Even mom & pop stores can be much bigger ball-busters than most corporations, even if they don't approach Amazon levels. A company being smaller or a person being poorer is no sign of virtue by itself.

Fazeo13 posted...

Bezos is still a piece of **** though. Treats his employees like shit. Making bank of their backs.

Sure, Amazon's warehouses are objectively horrifying. It's the kind of place where work doesn't stop even when somebody drops dead. However, he pays his workers a *lot* better than most retailers and low-end jobs. People have been talking about the Fight for $15 for years, but Amazon has started people at $15 possibly for longer than that fight has been going on.


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its just stock prices, jeff bezos is a humble working man - zeus

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The best part is billionaires pretending they're doing a lot by funneling a few billion through foundations so that most of the money ends up going back into their wallet instead toward the causes they're "supposed to" go to

TheWitchMorgana posted...

its just stock prices, jeff bezos is a humble working man - zeus

No, what I'm saying is that a lot of the "gains" in "wealth" are purely virtual because, until you actually sell the stock, you haven't made any money and there's no way he could offload that much stock without the price falling and the stock itself will rise & fall over time (hence why changes in evaluation aren't the same as actually gaining or losing that money). And I know we've had this discussion a few times. Almost all of Jeff Bezos's "wealth" is in Amazon stock, most of which he needs to keep to have a controlling interest in his company and the evaluation could potentially tank (unlike cash which only loses value due to inflation). Everybody talking about these peoples' wealth are imagining Scrooge McDuck money vaults, but nothing could be further from the truth.

At the end of the day, all Jeff Bezos really owns are supply chains (and a newspaper that he uses to relentlessly attack politicians), although even then his ownership is split among others because of stock (except for that newspaper iirc)

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OhhhJa posted...

The best part is billionaires pretending they're doing a lot by funneling a few billion through foundations so that most of the money ends up going back into their wallet instead toward the causes they're "supposed to" go to

"Charity organizations are all fake"
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Guess they all should have stopped producing things so nobody could buy anything anywhere during the shutdowns. That would have been much better.

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Revelation34 posted...

"Charity organizations are all fake"

Stfu lol

WhiskeyDisk posted...

Guess they all should have stopped producing things so nobody could buy anything anywhere during the shutdowns. That would have been much better.

B-boot licker!

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WhiskeyDisk posted...

Guess they all should have stopped producing things so nobody could buy anything anywhere during the shutdowns. That would have been much better.

They should have kept everything opened and strongly advised only high risk individuals to stay inside. These preventive measures havent done much, so the infection and deaths would still be about the same and we wouldnt have killed our small businesses and economy.

rexcrk posted...

B-boot licker!

Says the person that would rather we all use our hands for toilet paper because "muh billionaires" instead.

MartianManchild posted...

They should have kept everything opened and strongly advised only high risk individuals to stay inside. These preventive measures havent done much, so the infection and deaths would still be about the same and we wouldnt have killed our small businesses and economy.

And unless you can show me how the likes of Gates, Bezos, and Musk ordered the shutdowns in order to enrich themselves, or even have the authority to do so, you're making a really dumb argument in the context of your own topic.

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MartianManchild posted...

These preventive measures havent done much

Gee I wonder if that has anything to do with so many people and governors refusing to follow what experts have told us is a good idea

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WhiskeyDisk posted...

Says the person that would rather we all use our hands for toilet paper because "muh billionaires" instead.

What on earth are you talking about?

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