And the perfect counterpart is another rotund fuzzy tech guy, Steve Wozniak. The Woz, who isn’t a billionaire in part because when Steve Jobs decided to fuck over a bunch of Apple employees before the IPO Woz gave them some of his shares. Woz, who spends his time in part video chatting with elementary school classes and talking to them about technology.
As someone else pointed out a while ago, Dolly Parton isn’t a billionaire because she tirelessly gives away her wealth to the poor.
It’s not the same level, but there are other musicians who have fought to keep ticket price affordable for their fans, Minor Threat/Fugazi being the most notable but far from the only ones.
The way every billionaire is made: ruthlessly exploiting the working class.
“To drain the swamp, you first must flood the swamp”
It’s not even apathy for a lot of people. It’s jubilation that someone whose wealth directly came from making others’ lives shorter and more miserable got his life shortened.
Also the UN: this “Star Wars” picture looks like a bit of a hit!
Sadly, that sounds entirely accurate.
There are many stories of people being confronted with the fact that their beloved grandfather or uncle or whoever had been a nazi who killed hundreds of people in the holocaust. Should we soften the discussion of that evil to protect the feeling of their descendants? This man’s children should live with the fact that every comfort they have in life was purchased with the blood and tears of people their father considered worthless.
How the fuck does a Supreme Court justice come into oral arguments about this case without a functioning understanding of American legal history as it relates to the trans community?
I know this is more of a meme community but in all seriousness that is the absolute ideal attitude for a president to have. “I’m here to do something and once I’m done I’m out.”
Whether he or anyone else holds to that is a different matter, of course.
Is she taking Buddha by the hand?
“Don’t need to use that kind of language? Be glad I’m using my words at all you miserable sack of shit!”
I’m really glad to hear someone confirm that. I see that ask and it seems utterly ridiculous.
Well, except REAGAN of all people, who told them to settle the fuck down on Lebanon, called it a genocide, and got the IOF to back off.
Ronald “AIDS is no concern, fuck the working class” Reagan was better on Israel than Joe Biden.
A couple years back I saw a tweet from a therapist saying that something like 90% of their patients would not need therapy if they made more money.
And Dodd-Frank was passed as a weak facsimile of the previously-repealed Glass-Stegall act that was written after the Great Depression and effectively prevented any major financial collapses for 70 years.
“Oops, now I read and write Hungarian. Can’t pronounce it for shit, though.”
It’s literally titled Slaughterhouse-Five, Or the Children’s Crusade. /s
In seriousness, I started reading Vonnegut at 11-12 years old. It’s not Dr Seuss but preteens can definitely read it.
I know you’re being a little facetious but you raise a good point. As you start talking about a net worth more like 5-10 million, there’s a lot more people in that class. I think then it’s more about things like, do you have one fairly nice house, or one nice house and a half dozen shitholes you rent out, or a couple nice houses that you move between? Are you a business owner who pays well in a field that is profitable or are you the proud owner of a handful of subway or McDonald’s locations?