• @[email protected]
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    Wow. I’m sure this is completely unrelated to Washington state’s proposed capital gains tax.

    • @Tujio
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      161 year ago

      Eh. Bezos is rich enough he doesn’t pay taxes. He’d just move his assets into a different state and claim the interstate commerce clause or some shit.

      • @shalafi
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        111 year ago

        Uh, the interstate commerce clause merely states that Congress has the power to make laws regarding such commerce. What are you on about?

    • @shalafi
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      31 year ago

      What’s the skinny on that?

  • ivanafterall
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    Trump’s based in Florida, Bezos is going there. If we can convince Musk to move there, we can just saw Florida off and let it drift off to sea.

  • @hogunner
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    421 year ago

    Aw, makes me wish Dexter was real.

    • @anon_8675309
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      171 year ago

      If Dexter was real he could not afford that nice apartment anymore.

      • @gdog05
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        The storyline would revolve around him needing a roommate and then his roommate being invasive and eventually finding out that the roommate killed some people on purpose a few years back and… He’s going to need a new roommate. One per season.

        • @[email protected]
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          He could room with serial killers. That way, when they find out about him, he can hunt and kill them.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          It’s the quirky 80s comedy spinoff where the lovable goofball Dexter just can’t keep a roommate, and his friends don’t get why since he’s just so darn swell.

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    He spent 75 million for the house next to one he already owned. He’s worth $156 billion.

    Let’s say you have 100k in the bank. The equivalent purchase for you would be something costing roughly $50. He bought a mansion worth more than I’ll ever see for proportionally less than what I would spend on an AAA video game.

    Oh and it’ll either hold value or appreciate, so he will likely just make more money on it. Or at the very least pay relatively a lot less once he decides to sell.

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      Let’s say you have 100k in the bank. The equivalent purchase for you

      Not necessarily a good comparison, because most people with 100K in the bank have a higher income/savings ratio than Bezos (whose income is basically just the return on his wealth).

      So it would be more accurate to say, “Let’s say you are retired with 100K in the bank. The equivalent expense for you would be $50.64”.

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        Yeah that’s fair. But also it’s realistically vastly more complicated and almost incomparable because with $156B you can actually manipulate markets to improve your returns. People will buy your house at a premium to say they own Jeff Bezos’ previous property. Etc. Beyond the direct ratio comparison, there are so many fundamentally inequal parts about wealth at that scale.

        Say he earns less than a high yield savings account for a year (~4.5% currently), he can retire on only that year’s income with over 7 billion in the bank and this purchase would be more like someone with 100k saved spending 1k (on a house).

  • VodkaSolution
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    Please please God, make de Santis do some weird s**t against Amazon for some dumb reason

  • @Stuka
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    251 year ago

    WHO CARES. WHY POST THIS

  • @anon_8675309
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    Well at least when it floods in 10 years he can live on his super yacht. Or that big ass yacht that pulls his super yacht.

  • @dhork
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    Now we can call him Florida Man

  • @obelix
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    151 year ago

    Trump’s based there, Ken Griffin, now Bezos…it’s almost as if they’re moving somewhere that will allow them to make a quick getaway on their mega yachts. Well, except Donny, he’s probably only got a pedalo.

    • Prophet
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      It’s also a state where your primary residence is shielded if you need to declare bankruptcy…

      • @obelix
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        Ah I didn’t know that! Makes sense.

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        If you’re* rich.

      • @paultimate14
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        The article says he’s moving from Seattle. Washington is also one of the 9 states with no income tax.

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        I mean, he’s a flesh eating, exploitative shitbag, it would be wrong to not hate him, right?

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  • @TokenBoomer
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    Aquaman will defend Atlantis from his greed.

  • Maeve
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    For the cost of his one property just purchased, I could establish free good healthcare, education, housing and food * for myself, my kid and my entire county * for generations.

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  • @FReddit
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    One more asshole in Florida. Big deal.