Nothing will change until they fear for their lives.
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Unrelatable dickhead expresses an opinion, promptly ignored.
More like makes me fantasize about using his chrome dome to set an Amazon data center on fire like burning ants with a magnifying glass
Sadly the inescapable physical truth of convex vs concave lensing still relentlessly holds its tenacious grip on reality, despite the billions of dollars these folks have accumulated they have still, thus far, been unable to alter that particular aspect of reality.
The only solution I can offer for Jeff Bezos is to begin forming his skull inwards somewhat so that any captured light can reach a proper focusing point. As as astronomer with some experience with such reflective optical surfaces, I'd be happy to begin the grinding and polishing process for you at any time, I'll just need you to hold him still while I work. It's a very precise process.
I assume his head is mostly thick skull surrounding empty space anyway, so I think there should be little harm done.
just make the light source more concave than his head is convex!
maybe. or just use a [REDACTED]
promptly ignored.
That's what the oligarchs want...
He has your money, and if you want it now vote JG Wentworth 2028.
Because unless we take our money back, they're just gonna fucking keep it.
Edit:
Because people might not know that commercial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX0fIi3H-es
Point being that's the only thing we should say to oligarchs, if we say nothing they win
So every time you see a billionaire, say "bitch, where's my money".
Don't let them talk about anything besides they have our money.
Please nobody ignore him. Everyone needs to hear this -and be enraged.
Borrowed $250k ($550k in today's money) from his family to start Amazon, has so much money now that money has ceased to have meaning. This asshole has never lived a normal life and yet he thinks he knows what kind of problems people are facing today.
Strange how a man who stands to make billions more from this, thinks all those opposed to it are wrong.
Guessing itβs due to his vast and deep knowledge of the subject, after long and careful scientific and sociologic research.
"Billionaire with vested interest in AI &Trump says there's no problems with billionares, AI & Trump"
Why the fuck even ask him?
Imagine that! All the billionaires defending each other. Go figure!
Itβs like they have some sort of solidarity. One based on their class. Seems like an idea that could greatly benefit them.
Shit. That's brilliant. I wish it would work for the rest of us. If only we outnumbered them... Lol.
And yet they hate each other, because they covet each other's wealth
They're so envious, when they have no need to be
It's an illness
The only cure is the guillotine
Being completely wrong on all topics is an accomplishment on its own.
What sorts of salads and sides would go well with him?
I'd feed him to my dog
But while he's still alive
(my dog is about as harmless as it gets, he's old, missing many teeth and just wants to sleep and cuddle, but still...)
I'd wager that Bezos tastes bitter, sour and otherwise unpleasant
It takes dedication and really going the extra mile to be so diabolically shitty.
These billionaire ghouls just don't know when to stfu
I honestly cannot imagine being THAT rich, being able to do anything, and still being such a massive piece of shit
You don't get to be that rich without being a massive piece of shit.
Exactly. Average asshole gets a billion, they get a financial advisor, let their money turn into generational wealth with investments, and donate to charity while living in a big mansion.
The billionaires we have are more of mentally sick wannabe dragons, the horde will never be big enough to satisfy them.
Hell, that will happen at tens of millions. The magnitude of a billion is crazy.
Even if they are more driven to keep going, others turn to more philanthropic pursuits. Well before a billion the number becomes more like a high score rather than giving any quality of life improvements, so what's the point of getting more? Most will want to mean more to the world than just some high score. So accumulated wealth starts getting directed away for all but sociopaths that relish the high score in and of itself.
Exactly. They have so much money they could fuck off somewhere and live the rest of their lives and their families in sumptous luxury without even having made a dent in their fortune. Yet they continue to stick around and work hard at ruining everything for the rest of us, just so that they can add extra billions to their billions.
Or what? What are you(plural) gunna do about it? They keep getting away with it so what is this βwhenβ you speak of and whatβs going to happen?
Even small children and animals learn very quickly that empty threats are far more cringey than scary and begin ignoring them almost immediately. These are grown people whoβve lived their whole lives without consequences and you think they give a shit?
People like this bastard should be hanging
A pillory would be a good start. Then all the Amazon drivers can line up and dump their piss bottles in his face.
from multiple ropes in multiple pieces.
okay maybe i'm going a bit far haha
I don't think we should hang him but I do think we should hang his companies.
It would be more satisfying to me to see him have to start from the bottom.
Well what did you expect, him to come out and say "yes, billionaires are detrimental to society"?
The police investigated themselves and found nothing wrong.
βThe top 1% of taxpayers pay about 40% of all the tax revenue, and the bottom half pay 3%,β Bezos said. βI donβt think it should be 3%. I think it should be zero.β
βPeople sometimes say that, you know, I donβt pay taxes. Not true. I pay billions of dollars in taxes,β
βYou could double the taxes I pay, and itβs not going to help that teacher in Queens. I promise you.β
WT-absolute-F? I think he got oxygen-deprived in space.
βYou could double the taxes I pay, and itβs not going to help that teacher in Queens. I promise you.β
well, in the USA this is probably true, all the money would be diverted into more military spending or tax breaks for stupid filthy rich people
which is why we need tax money being spent on the communal level. not the federal level. it's the fed gov that spends it on the military, it's the municipality that spends it on schools.
Fair enough, LOL. Just love that it's "oh I pay TONS of taxes, but asking me to pay more in taxes won't help anything."
Also, education is locally funded. So yeah, no shit your federal taxes aren't going to go to a teacher in Queens you fucking chode
βYou could double the taxes I pay, and itβs not going to help that teacher in Queens. I promise you.β
He promised!
Seriously though, does he think that a) only Bezos of all multibillionaires gets taxed double and b) that wouldn't go along with social policy?
What a dumb wacko, high on sniffing his own farts. Probably partly due to a fawning interviewer.
Hey a rich out of touch asshole who has nothing in common with his fellow man has an opinion about something!
I bet he knows what he's talking about!
I am starting to downvote these posts. I know what an asshole like Bezos would say if asked, then a good-for-nothing tech press guy asks AND you give him a platform on Lemmy.
There is no valuable analysis or any collateral reporting that makes this other than self-inflicted propaganda.
Thank you! Im really irritated by the amount and ratio of upvotes this post has.
I agree with your sentiment but I like these posts for a strategic reason: Bezos intends for his statements to bolster support, but his strategy is falling flat. Support for AI is either level or declining, and anger over its harm is growing. Bezos reveals the extent to which he is out-of-touch. I think his statements actually inflame opposition to AI: his propaganda is motivating his opponents while leaving his supporters indifferent. When I upvote Bezos quotes, I am thinking to myself, 'hey everybody, get a load of this asshole!' I am definitely not upvoting him because I think his claims have merit or that they will convert people to support AI.
I feel like the fact that Bezos himself is out here arguing means that he's losing.
He isn't losing though. Him and his fellow oligarchs have never been so rich and influential.
I know. But he's trying to do damage control. He's aware of how he's perceived, and he's worried.
These creatures can't even figure out how to cosplay as fully formed human beings.
Oh, so the cartoonishly evil CEO said the evil rogues gallery of CEOs isn't evil? It's also so funny how he could say "no, young worker's jobs aren't in that much danger." Then mark fuckerberg goes on stage saying how many people he's replaced with ai. Wholly shit its impossible.
One thing that's become very clear is that all these billionaires are not smart people. Most of them were born on 3rd base or just got lucky.
But their are not wise or worth listening to.
In fact most of them are just shitty dumb pieces of shit psychopaths
The psychopath (at the bare minimum sociopath) part is important. You can't get there without dehumanising your workers.
Money hoarding worker abuser said what?
Mark my words, Jeff is positioning himself to eventually run for president.
He does check all the boxes for the American electorate
β Self interested - βA success story!β
β Blames poor people for their poverty - βWhy donβt you just work harder?β
β Avoids paying taxes - βWhen Iβm a billionaire, I wonβt want to pay either!β
β Does not understand that revenue from tax dollars should be used to support social programs and government services that are not specifically profit generating (food programs, emergency preparedness, environmental conservation, mail to remote areas, etc) - βThe government should be run like a businessβ
Damm we got slammed
He took his plastic wife's advice and got botox and now he can't move his fucking mouth correctly.
Unsurprising reaction from a supervillain.
Maybe just villain. There's really nothing super or special about the guy.
That mofo crushed physical retail almost completely, killed off a lot of malls and mom-and-pop stores and even Sears and JC Penney (coincidentally the pioneers of mail-order shopping). Nearly all websites are hosted on AWS servers. Owns UA/MGM and therefore has some ironic control of the James Bond films and franchise.
Hate how this greedy ghouls are constantly amplified by news organizations as "experts" and "thought leaders".
Dude deserves the Mussolini treatment and nothing short of it.
Too humane. They should suffer for many, many years isolated in a filthy jail cell first
Fair enough.
Personally I think culling the entire Epstein class and dragging their corpses until every major cities' municipal boundary can be seen from space would send a more effective message.
Dip them in liquid nitrogen and christen their yachts before we scuttle them.
Hang them by their feet from a crane and see how many it takes to demolish a data center.
(Gee I wonder why I got banned from reddit)
Billionaires became billionaires by ruining the life of dozens of thousands of people each. They should have plenty of time to regret that before their end, that's my take
Too dangerous. They have lots of sycophants who would lay down their lives for them. As long as they live they are a threat.
And he loves it! In another article (possibly about the same interview) he praised Trump for being so much more assertive in his second term.
edit: oh, you meant actual Mussolini, not Mango Mussolini π³
Fuck what he says, why the fuck does he look like the bastard child between Santa Claus and Lex Luthor?!
I completely removed myself from Amazon since a few years and I couldn't be happier. Everyone should do this.
It Is Difficult to Get a Man to Understand Something When His Salary Depends Upon His Not Understanding It
Iβd imagine this applies even more to billionaires who make the average personβs salary every minute.
I think he is right about tech workers working on a higher level, using a bulldozer instead of a shovel, but thats going to be a good thing for the company, not the worker.
He sees the company as the main driver in the economy and if it's good for the company, it's good for the country. If it sucks for workers, it's a sacrifice he is willing to make...
Boosting productivity is very bad for the stressed worker who gets a new performance baseline that is 10 times what it was before. We already see this happening.
βYou could double the taxes I pay, and itβs not going to help that teacher in Queens. I promise you.β
He is right about this too, because he knows the taxes in America is not going to those people. America has so much money but they spend it on weapons instead of their country.
So he is not lying in this interview. He is saying the truth which is why things are so sad. Him paying more taxes would just give more money to the weapons industry. He is existing inside a country where the presidents doesn't care about ordinary people at all. Same as Russia.
Let them eat cake.
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