Is the line right at billion, how rich should people be allowed to be?
This could be perceived as sealioning, or just asking questions. Looking through the thread I don’t believe that to be the case, so I personally don’t find this one objectionable. My answer to that would be $100,000,000 US Dollars. No more than that, and people should really be retiring once they hit $10,000,000 USD
Should it matter how the money was acquired?
Perfectly reasonable question, and I would answer, “yes, absolutely.” I would then immediately ask two follow up questions.
Is Wage Theft a crime?
Will we prosecute the crimes that these rich people have committed?
Should everyone always have to have the same amount of money as everyone else?
This is a strawman question, even if you didn’t intend for it to be. No one thinks that everyone should have the same as everyone else, even those of us that advocate for moneyless and stateless society. I suspect this is the one that is getting the down votes, though the first is also a potential candidate.
My apologies. This got long. Read it or not, doesn’t matter to me, I half write to work out my own thoughts anyways. Thanks for taking the time to write your comment!
I guess I just dont quite subscribe to the whole idea that if someone is making a bunch of money, then they must be hurting society. People choose to use amazon because it gets them better prices, things come faster, they have good customer support, its easy to refund things, etc. I don’t care if Bezos has billions, he’s not even going to spend it all. Most billionaires end up giving a shitton to decent organizations. Shopping was so shitty before Amazon, the experience is way better for me now. If he is going to come up with more ideas that get me good deals, then I selfishly don’t want him to be forced to retire just because he’s already pleased too many people and made too much money.
I guess I would think it’s cooler if he was getting taxed 99% if the tax money was being used better. I never go to bed at night wishing the government could afford to bomb more gazan babies, or lock up more people for weed, or pay more cops awesome salaries to hide outside schools when theirs gunmen, or to force 13 year olds to have incest babies. The potholes still suck most places, they aren’t giving us healthcare, education is rediculously priced, lots of people can’t drink their tap water…
All that said, absolutely, if Bezos is scamming his employes and breaking contracts to rip them off, then absolutely punish him. I don’t see low, agreed upon wages as a crime, though. If you don’t like your job, then quit, if you can find a job then get benefits, if there’s no benefits to be had, then that sucks and it needs to be dealt with. The thing is, Jeff is just going to use bots if you try to make him pay people too much, and then a whole bunch more benefits are going to be needed.
I don’t know, I can change my mind if better ideas are presented. For the most part, it seems like people just want to have all the good ideas that got other people money, take their money, and strangely enough, they then want to get rid of the system that resulted in people being motivated to come up with the good ideas that we all love. Even more strange, many people on here think the idea of money is what’s causing the problems, and they just want to go around bartering all the time. Or they think they do, at least.
Ok so… I can’t speak for everyone, but
This could be perceived as sealioning, or just asking questions. Looking through the thread I don’t believe that to be the case, so I personally don’t find this one objectionable. My answer to that would be $100,000,000 US Dollars. No more than that, and people should really be retiring once they hit $10,000,000 USD
Perfectly reasonable question, and I would answer, “yes, absolutely.” I would then immediately ask two follow up questions.
Is Wage Theft a crime?
Will we prosecute the crimes that these rich people have committed?
This is a strawman question, even if you didn’t intend for it to be. No one thinks that everyone should have the same as everyone else, even those of us that advocate for moneyless and stateless society. I suspect this is the one that is getting the down votes, though the first is also a potential candidate.
My apologies. This got long. Read it or not, doesn’t matter to me, I half write to work out my own thoughts anyways. Thanks for taking the time to write your comment!
I guess I just dont quite subscribe to the whole idea that if someone is making a bunch of money, then they must be hurting society. People choose to use amazon because it gets them better prices, things come faster, they have good customer support, its easy to refund things, etc. I don’t care if Bezos has billions, he’s not even going to spend it all. Most billionaires end up giving a shitton to decent organizations. Shopping was so shitty before Amazon, the experience is way better for me now. If he is going to come up with more ideas that get me good deals, then I selfishly don’t want him to be forced to retire just because he’s already pleased too many people and made too much money.
I guess I would think it’s cooler if he was getting taxed 99% if the tax money was being used better. I never go to bed at night wishing the government could afford to bomb more gazan babies, or lock up more people for weed, or pay more cops awesome salaries to hide outside schools when theirs gunmen, or to force 13 year olds to have incest babies. The potholes still suck most places, they aren’t giving us healthcare, education is rediculously priced, lots of people can’t drink their tap water…
All that said, absolutely, if Bezos is scamming his employes and breaking contracts to rip them off, then absolutely punish him. I don’t see low, agreed upon wages as a crime, though. If you don’t like your job, then quit, if you can find a job then get benefits, if there’s no benefits to be had, then that sucks and it needs to be dealt with. The thing is, Jeff is just going to use bots if you try to make him pay people too much, and then a whole bunch more benefits are going to be needed.
I don’t know, I can change my mind if better ideas are presented. For the most part, it seems like people just want to have all the good ideas that got other people money, take their money, and strangely enough, they then want to get rid of the system that resulted in people being motivated to come up with the good ideas that we all love. Even more strange, many people on here think the idea of money is what’s causing the problems, and they just want to go around bartering all the time. Or they think they do, at least.