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.
@futurebird
Both you and him are correct. -
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.
