Good time to post this again
Do you think it’s being claimed that billionaires are all powerful gods who control every aspect of everyone’s lives?
Look at the study I linked. That’s the scope we’re talking about.
Really? Do you think Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is giving more power to economic elites?
If you mean something like more power because they have power over my head space or something, that’s not what this thread is about. Yeah, I could completely ignore all of this and it would have less impact on my life, but we’re talking about politics and their power in the political and economic realm.
If a minority of people just ignore Charles Koch he’ll be forced to stop spending hundreds of millions of dollars to influence the majority through laws and elections.
Makes sense.
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Not true.
“Zero money” means you have no food or shelter. You aren’t accomplishing anything without that.
I know this is a derail and not really what you meant, but “fail fast” is a really good way to do stuff a lot of the time and “fail” doesn’t always mean fail catastrophically or anything. The last software project I was working on my client was big on “fail fast”. If there was anything that may or may not work, they wanted to get something prototyped quickly to get a better idea and then just drop it if it looked like it wouldn’t work or be worth the effort.
What’s the point of being a billionaire if you can’t grow cannabis on your private island in the South Pacific
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I’m not a pot user, but that story does have me sympathizing with a billionaire.
He is so oppressed.
Man this thread is my wheelhouse but all the smarter people have already taken the good lines.
But yeah cliffs notes. Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
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Don’t be immature and naive. If you have not gotten healthcare because you couldn’t afford it then you know what I am talking about. Not everything is the chimera, there are some things that are very real.
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My avatar is one of the few that has had a character arc though. It went from 100% sarcastic to 100% genuine.
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Stop with the money worshipping already jesus.
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This is just naive thinking.
Even if you were getting by with zero money it would be extremely stressful and you wouldn’t be able to plan for the future.
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How did this turn into a “you can live on a small budget” thread and not a “billionaires have an outsized influence on politics/are generally pretty evil” thread?
Like someone connect the dots between “you can just eat dumpster groceries and go into a lifetime of medical debt” and “therefore stop being mad at Bill Gates”
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This is how it works in the USA. If you get a terminal condition and you don’t have money and/or health insurance and the condition is treatable in the emergency room you go bankrupt. If its not treatable in the emergency room you die. Often people with health insurance will still go bankrupt but only kinda bankrupt.
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Money totally has nothing to do with how our healthcare system is framed around rent seeking insurance companies though.
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