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Tax the Billionaires, they'll be fine (lemmy.zip)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world
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[–] 66 points 5 months ago* (10 children)

MacKenzie Scott actually helped found Amazon, she married Bezos before Amazon even existed and literally worked on it with him from the very beginning. The whole idea that she married into wealth or "got it from the divorce" reeks of sexism.

She's also rapidly giving away her money with no strings attached, and she's supporting underserved communities all over the US. The HBCU in my city got a massive grant from her that's totally transformed what it will be capable of, for example. I just don't get why you're choosing this person to rag on out of all the truly vile billionaires out there

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  • [–] 49 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I don't see it as ragging on her. I think she is being used as an example as she has given away more in proportion to her total wealth than most other billionaires yet is now worth more than ever. The point I believe this meme is making is billionaires will still continue to be obscenely rich even if they are heavily taxed.

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago*

    I see it as pointing out that even after giving away around 2/3rds of her wealth, the remaining third managed to generate more than what was given away.

    In other words, an example of the axiom that you need money in order to make money, and if you have an obscene amount like $10 billion , it can double itself easily without any real effort on your part required

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    No human needs a billion dollars. It's an utterly obscene amount of money and just because you give away $26 billion does not mean that the remaining 10 billion is an acceptable amount to keep.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I don't disagree, but my points still stand

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    To counter your actual point, they might have picked her because there isn't another billionaire who gave away such a big part of their wealth at once. Bill Gates could have given away more over time, i don't know really, but her giving away so much proves even with just a few billion you can multiple your wealth in a few years. I guess that has to do with the fact any one that rich only needs like >0,01% of their wealth to fund their extremely comfortable life.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    If I were a billionaire I would be careful about where to give my money. Like that would be my full-time job. You always hear about organizations that spend most of contributions on overhead and have overpaid CEOs, like Goodwill. I'd want to lay eyes on every place I gave to so I could be reassured it's not another org that just shifts money around.

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