Hello? Is this the based department?
Free luigi
So I guess he’s not welcome on Joe Rogan anymore?
Well, that is a bit excessive.
Rabid dogs are put down because there is no cure for their disease, and they cannot be controlled, and their very existence will bring harm to others and…Nevermind.
Imagine if we gave hoarders the same status we give wealthy people.
Like you’re invited over for dinner.
You get to the door and ring the bell. They yell, “come in.” You push the door open against 10000 stacked news papers pushing back at you. You’re instantly hit with the smell of animal feces and urine. You unironically say, “wow, so decadent.” You climb over a pile of furniture and to get to a small clearing in with a couch and a coffee table covered in clutter. You tell your host, “So much stuff, I’m so jealous, you truly possess all the worlds material goods.” They heat up some discount canned ravioli on a hot plate because the only place in the entire house you can habitate is that small clearing with the couch.
After you finish your fine dining experience you leave and you realize you never once saw any animals.
Hoarding is a disease. Doesn’t matter if it’s useless garbage or the idea of a pile of money you’ll never use.
I always liked the analogy with monkeys in the zoo. Imagine there are 10 monkeys in a cage. Every day you drop in 20 oranges. After a while you realise that one monkey is sitting on a pile of oranges, hoarding them. He can’t even eat all the oranges, while some monkeys go hungry. No one would think: “man that must be one smart monkey.” You would think something is seriously wrong with that guy.
That’s an unfair representation.
Money isn’t simply given to Elon every day…
Other people work hard for his money!
Yeah, all of the United States taxpayers work very hard to give him money
…after a couple weeks there’s a dead monkey and fermented oranges though. We could learn from monkeys
Yeah that was kinda my thought. I’m pretty sure the other monkeys would beat the ever living F*** out of the hoarder-monkey.
Even if he was the biggest, baddest monkey there a bunch of them would be smart enough to band together and reclaim food
Wtf is this. People dont find billionaires decadent. We know they’re assholes.
You might know they are assholes. At least 50% of the voting public doesn’t. In fact, they think they are very smart.
Key word is voting. Most people dont vote because they dont live in a democracy.
But most people know they’re assholes.
I’ve been rewatching the Gilmore girls and I can tell you, there is nothing abnormal about people lionizing the extremely wealthy.
If you think Hollywood is fact, you are stupid
Fact? This was a wildly popular television series. If you’re telling me people’s beliefs aren’t reflected in the media they consume in don’t know where to start because I don’t think we live on the same planet.
it’s that how you imagine millionaires with money? Like full house stacked with dirty used paper money? :DDDDDD it’s digital numbers in bank account these days. Difference between old stacked newspapers and numbers in the bank is quite astronomical. And if he will never be able to use it, so his children grandchildren and generations to come will use it and will have EZ life without problems which poverty brings.
Elon Musk could lose 99.99% of his money and still have more money than 99% of Americans.
He’s done it, he’s won capitalism. He can stop and never worry about money, his children would never need to worry about money, and his grandchildren would never need to worry about money. And yet he keeps obsessively hoarding more money that at this point he has literally no use for.
It’s a disease.
I don’t think you know how to read, bro.
English is my second language and I am from second world country. Maybe that explains things. Apologies sir
“Hey Google, what is a metaphor”
Me: EAT THE RICH! Bill Burr: I got you fam…
- To be clear, the 1% I am speaking about are NOT the 1% of your neighborhood, county, or city(necessarily). I speak of the Global 1%. The 1% that make your retired home owning uncle with just under 1million in his retirement look like the firmly lower middle class that he is.
The global 1% have much less money than the country’s 1%
Yeah, I looked up some random articles and it looks like for the US it takes $5-10+ million to be in the top 1% of net worth, while globally I saw numbers under one million.
And according to one article that’s a bit old, $100K net worth puts you in the top 10% globally, and just $5,000 puts you in the top half.
Yep. US Americans often have no idea how rich they are
Indeed. I have said a few times on here, usually in response to some rugged individualism argument, that anybody with the ability to read my words you are currently reading is among the luckiest humans to ever have lived. And even pretty high up there among the current living population.
Some people are so addicted to complaining that they have no perspective, at all.
The global 1% include a whole lot of innocent “middle class” people in wealthier countries, like the uncle in your example.
I think maybe you mean the global .01%?
Yep, let people make all the money they want, but once you hit 10 billion, you get luigi’d.
I think the limit is in the millions.
Honestly 50 million is plenty for any individual.
Yeah, that sounds about right. Okay, so that’s that settled. What’s next?
Right, I would say the limit should be “no billionaires” so that if your net worth including investments exceeds $999M then you have to sell off some property or give money to the taxman until you are under $1b net worth. $999 million is still more money than anyone would ever need but just having no billionaires would be a great start.
That’s still probably too high, but its a number nobody can object-to. Would be easy to pass that law in a democracy.
Even 1 billion works. You have to make it high still, or everyone will say “bu-bu-but that’s communism”
put that limit at 100 million please
time for an old yeller solution.
The rich are not the problem, the wealthy are the problem. I like the way Chris Rock put it: ‘Shaq is rich… The white man who signs his check is wealthy.’
Millions of people could be up there with Bill Burr, if a few hundred wouldn’t hoard over half of all wealth in the country.
I would sleep just as well if Shaq’s top marginal rate was 90%.
At least Shaq worked hard at playing basketball instead of working hard at exploiting workers for their wealth.
But know he owns businesses like Papa John’s, which works hard at exploiting workers for their wealth.
Bros humor is salty as hell but i like it. Kinda a hookers and cocaine kind of leftist.
Salty with a hint of Carlin.
He got very tired of peoples BS towards the end of his career, I hope Burr can keep up the energy, we sorta need it right now.
Bill Burr for senate
I like him too much to force him to do that shitty job
I feel he is the only person I’ve seen try to go around and sound like a sane person about this shit. He let’s me know I’m not crazy. I hear him from different sources too. He’s not just trying for a sound bite on legacy media.
Bill Burr for dogcatcher.
Man Bill Burr went from being a heel edgelord to a champion of the working class. He’s a true American.
When he called out the Catholic Church he became a champion.
For me, it was his takedown of Bill Marr on Palestine. Not many who would tell Bill Marr to his face to shut up and actually get him to do it.
Hate to be that guy but it’s Bill Maher
Lol I think I was conflating with Bill Barr.
Super Luigi time!
We had an economic plan for this almost a century ago. It was called the “euthenasia of the rentier class” advocated by john Maynard Keynes. I guess we didn’t expect the rentier to also control the financial system.
