• Smuuthbrane
    link
    fedilink
    English
    10010 months ago

    I don’t have to chop, stew, dismember, or sell a $5 bill. False equivalency argument.

    • @Agent641
      link
      English
      4210 months ago

      I know right? Picking up a lost $5 doesnt carry any of those rewarding tasks.

    • @somtwo
      link
      English
      1910 months ago

      My guy, this is the onion

      • Smuuthbrane
        link
        fedilink
        English
        -110 months ago

        Yes, I can read. And see where it’s posted.

        Doesn’t mean I can’t debunk a theoretical argument.

        • @Godric
          link
          English
          610 months ago

          THE ONION DEBOOONKED!!!1!!!

          • Smuuthbrane
            link
            fedilink
            English
            -110 months ago

            Some people pay good money for a solid debonking.

            Or a handful of dead squirrels, I’m sure.

    • @Blue_Morpho
      link
      English
      1410 months ago

      It’s fine. He never said it. He has said he thinks its ridiculous that he gets so much money for doing nothing compared to school teachers while paying less taxes.

    • @chuckleslord
      link
      English
      1010 months ago

      That’s just what they want you to think

  • catsarebadpeople
    link
    fedilink
    English
    6410 months ago

    His parents were rich and the reason he’s more rich is that he exploits lots and lots of people.

    • @Son_of_dad
      link
      English
      3910 months ago

      Every single billionaire got there by exploiting and taking money from the people below him, who did most of the actual work. Nobody can earn a billion dollars, you can only do it by stealing. Buffet and Gates are the worst cause they try so hard to play the good guy billionaire image

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        810 months ago

        I assume your downvotes are from billionaires. If not, that’s just sad. If you’re defending billionaires and aren’t one yourself, I regret to inform you that you’re a mark.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    5410 months ago

    Average net worth for 35-44 year olds $135 thousand his net worth $119.2 billion. $5 equivalent for him is ~$4,414,814.81

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      52
      edit-2
      10 months ago

      If you skinned and sold squirrels at a rate of 7.56 squirrels per second, you’d reach his wealth in just 100 years! All it takes is a little hard work!

      They’d also go extinct after 1 year. Maybe switch to rats.

      • @seth
        link
        English
        1810 months ago

        deleted by creator

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          English
          110 months ago

          Probably gone even faster as wouldn’t you need a lot more rats to equal what you could get from a squirrel?

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        110 months ago

        Even if you don’t end up rich, eradicating squirrels is a pretty good consolation prize.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      1910 months ago

      He can buy a super car with less impact on his net worth than you standing there wondering what to get out of the vending machine

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
      link
      English
      110 months ago

      Where did you find that average net worth for 35-44 year olds? That seems much higher than I expected. What’s the median?

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    4310 months ago

    Then they dare to go buy some fucking avocado toast and a mokke lattchiato or whatever the hell, on their fucking bikes with THEIR FUCKING HELMET ON!

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        410 months ago

        I don’t get all the love for avacado. It tastes like mild plant butter to me. I save a lot of money by never buying it haha.

    • @Godric
      link
      English
      510 months ago

      Dude literally just find more dead squirrels for avocado toast money, it’s that simple

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        310 months ago

        No, you don’t understand the problem with avocado toast. You see, bread is a great source of carbs, and combined with the rind of the avocado, the scraps are a super food that leaves squirrels full of energy and with a thick coat that makes them neigh immortal

        When’s the last time you saw a dead squirrel ripe for the picking? It was free money

  • @ikidd
    link
    English
    2610 months ago

    As someone that’s shot a few squirrels for tying flies with, I’d just buy the damn tails. Squirrels are filthy little beasts and have a pile of parasites that crawl off them when they’re dead.

      • @ikidd
        link
        English
        21
        edit-2
        10 months ago

        They can be destructive fuckers. And, little known fact, red squirrels are the largest predator of juvenile rabbits.

        Tasty, tasty rabbits.

        • @Blue_Morpho
          link
          English
          410 months ago

          “There’s only one way to eat a brace of connies.”

        • Flying Squid
          link
          English
          210 months ago

          A squirrel tore up one of our lawn chair cushions to make its nest. Little piece of shit. Then bits of lawn chair stuffing blew all over the neighborhood that winter.

          • @ikidd
            link
            English
            210 months ago

            I was wondering why I wasn’t getting telemetry from my watering bowls and started tracking down the issue. I had leaned a pole with a LoRa antenna up against a tree, and one of the little bastards chewed the line through in about a dozen spots. If they get in the soffet of a house they’ll tear all the insulation out, then store thousands of spruce cones in there, making a lovely fire hazard.

            Hate them almost as much as mice.