Jeff Bezoz in a recent interview opined over how terrible he thought it was that a "nurse making $75,000 from Queens" pays $12,000 a year in taxes.
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Jeff Bezoz in a recent interview opined over how terrible he thought it was that a "nurse making $75,000 from Queens" pays $12,000 a year in taxes.
He mused about how this nurse from Queens might better use that money.
And if you think a nurse from Queens is what he was really talking about may I interest you in some of #PicaTheCat 's exciting crypto currency investment opportunities.
Mr. Bezos we don't think you, yes you personally are paying your fare share of taxes. That's the issue bub.
I don’t even think about his fair share of taxes, I think he has too much damn money
The only reason to attack him is that amount of wealth should not exist
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Jeff Bezoz in a recent interview opined over how terrible he thought it was that a "nurse making $75,000 from Queens" pays $12,000 a year in taxes.
He mused about how this nurse from Queens might better use that money.
And if you think a nurse from Queens is what he was really talking about may I interest you in some of #PicaTheCat 's exciting crypto currency investment opportunities.
Mr. Bezos we don't think you, yes you personally are paying your fare share of taxes. That's the issue bub.
The other angle to this is that Republicans believe people who don’t pay taxes should not vote
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@david_chisnall @datarama @futurebird Rory Stewart once mentioned on The Rest Is Politics, that he had asked some billionaires about the hoarding vs philanthropy. Ostensibly, they tend to develop a fear of gradually losing their power and political traction as their pot of money diminishes and they descend the league table of the globally wealthy. Whatever the truth of that, it certainly must be an odd position to be in psychologically.
I tend to think that the measure of wealth is how infrequently you have to think about money. Billionaires seem to do pretty badly in that scale. I suspect that the peak is somewhere in the $5-50M range: enough that it's self sustaining and the gains cover even pretty extravagant things you might want to buy for an individual to use / consume, not enough that you are significantly skewing the shape of society around you.
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Jeff Bezoz in a recent interview opined over how terrible he thought it was that a "nurse making $75,000 from Queens" pays $12,000 a year in taxes.
He mused about how this nurse from Queens might better use that money.
And if you think a nurse from Queens is what he was really talking about may I interest you in some of #PicaTheCat 's exciting crypto currency investment opportunities.
Mr. Bezos we don't think you, yes you personally are paying your fare share of taxes. That's the issue bub.
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Jeff Bezoz in a recent interview opined over how terrible he thought it was that a "nurse making $75,000 from Queens" pays $12,000 a year in taxes.
He mused about how this nurse from Queens might better use that money.
And if you think a nurse from Queens is what he was really talking about may I interest you in some of #PicaTheCat 's exciting crypto currency investment opportunities.
Mr. Bezos we don't think you, yes you personally are paying your fare share of taxes. That's the issue bub.
@futurebird
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I tend to think that the measure of wealth is how infrequently you have to think about money. Billionaires seem to do pretty badly in that scale. I suspect that the peak is somewhere in the $5-50M range: enough that it's self sustaining and the gains cover even pretty extravagant things you might want to buy for an individual to use / consume, not enough that you are significantly skewing the shape of society around you.
@david_chisnall @kbm0 @futurebird This is pretty much why I consider myself rich, even though by most measures I'm not. I barely ever have to think about money. Back when I was poor (yes, actually below the relative poverty line of my country) I thought about money *all the time*.
I live in a small (but very nice) apartment, I use public transit and don't own a car, I have no children, I don't drink and I don't smoke, when I travel for vacation I usually go to a neighbouring country rather than an exotic location. So, I don't actually need a lot of money to be rich.
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@david_chisnall @kbm0 @futurebird This is pretty much why I consider myself rich, even though by most measures I'm not. I barely ever have to think about money. Back when I was poor (yes, actually below the relative poverty line of my country) I thought about money *all the time*.
I live in a small (but very nice) apartment, I use public transit and don't own a car, I have no children, I don't drink and I don't smoke, when I travel for vacation I usually go to a neighbouring country rather than an exotic location. So, I don't actually need a lot of money to be rich.
@david_chisnall @kbm0 @futurebird (the reason I'm not *really* rich, by the same measure, is that it wouldn't take a lot to put me back in a situation where I'd have to think about money all the time.
I'm a lot closer to the homeless guy selling newspapers down the street than I am to any billionaire - or high-millionaire.)
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@david_chisnall @kbm0 @futurebird This is pretty much why I consider myself rich, even though by most measures I'm not. I barely ever have to think about money. Back when I was poor (yes, actually below the relative poverty line of my country) I thought about money *all the time*.
I live in a small (but very nice) apartment, I use public transit and don't own a car, I have no children, I don't drink and I don't smoke, when I travel for vacation I usually go to a neighbouring country rather than an exotic location. So, I don't actually need a lot of money to be rich.
@datarama @david_chisnall @kbm0
Same honestly. Only camera equipment and the occasional book makes me feel a little poor.
I deserve the three volume set "Miniture Orchids" why is it three hundred dollars?
(yes yes library is nice, but some books I like to have so I can write in them and fill them with sticky notes.)
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Jeff Bezoz in a recent interview opined over how terrible he thought it was that a "nurse making $75,000 from Queens" pays $12,000 a year in taxes.
He mused about how this nurse from Queens might better use that money.
And if you think a nurse from Queens is what he was really talking about may I interest you in some of #PicaTheCat 's exciting crypto currency investment opportunities.
Mr. Bezos we don't think you, yes you personally are paying your fare share of taxes. That's the issue bub.
@futurebird billionaires shouldn't be a thing.
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Why didn't Bezos use one of the many people who **work for him** as an example? Lots of Amazon employees in NYC.
Oh that's right, most of them don't make 75k (this is the average salary in the US) they make a good bit less, little enough that his sad tax story falls apart since "wouldn't $300 extra dollars" doesn't fix the horrible salary.
@futurebird @david_chisnall And he doesn't want people to ask him why his workers are paid so badly that they are also on welfare.
