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[–] 105 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Nothing will change until they fear for their lives.

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

    Just wanted to throw down the reminder that health insurance companies, for a brief moment, didn't deny nearly as many claims.

    Sometimes violence is the answer.

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

    Unrelatable dickhead expresses an opinion, promptly ignored.

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

    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

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  • [–] 22 points 5 months ago* (3 children)

    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.

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

    just make the light source more concave than his head is convex!

    maybe. or just use a [REDACTED]

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

    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.

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  • [–] 74 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    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.

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  • [–] 58 points 5 months ago

    Strange how a man who stands to make billions more from this, thinks all those opposed to it are wrong.

    Guessing it’s due to his vast and deep knowledge of the subject, after long and careful scientific and sociologic research.

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

    "Billionaire with vested interest in AI &Trump says there's no problems with billionares, AI & Trump"

    Why the fuck even ask him?

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  • [–] 54 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Imagine that! All the billionaires defending each other. Go figure!

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    It’s like they have some sort of solidarity. One based on their class. Seems like an idea that could greatly benefit them.

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  • [–] 49 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

    Being completely wrong on all topics is an accomplishment on its own.

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

    What sorts of salads and sides would go well with him?

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

    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

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  • [–] 42 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    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

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

    You don't get to be that rich without being a massive piece of shit.

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

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    Or what? What are you(plural) gunna do about it? They keep getting away with it so what is this β€œwhen” you speak of and what’s 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 who’ve lived their whole lives without consequences and you think they give a shit?

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  • [–] 35 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    People like this bastard should be hanging

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

    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.

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  • [–] 32 points 5 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 28 points 5 months ago* (5 children)

    β€œThe top 1% of taxpayers pay about 40% of all the tax revenue, and the bottom half pay 3%,” Bezos said. β€œI don’t think it should be 3%. I think it should be zero.”

    β€œPeople sometimes say that, you know, I don’t pay taxes. Not true. I pay billions of dollars in taxes,”

    β€œYou could double the taxes I pay, and it’s not going to help that teacher in Queens. I promise you.”

    WT-absolute-F? I think he got oxygen-deprived in space.

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  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    β€œYou could double the taxes I pay, and it’s not going to help that teacher in Queens. I promise you.”

    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

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    β€œYou could double the taxes I pay, and it’s not going to help that teacher in Queens. I promise you.”

    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.

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  • [–] 27 points 5 months ago

    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!

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  • [–] 27 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (7 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I feel like the fact that Bezos himself is out here arguing means that he's losing.

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

    He isn't losing though. Him and his fellow oligarchs have never been so rich and influential.

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  • [–] 26 points 5 months ago

    These creatures can't even figure out how to cosplay as fully formed human beings.

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  • [–] 25 points 5 months ago

    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.

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

    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

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  • [–] 22 points 5 months ago
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    Make the guillotine great again

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

    Money hoarding worker abuser said what?

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

    Mark my words, Jeff is positioning himself to eventually run for president.

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago

    He does check all the boxes for the American electorate

    βœ… Self interested - β€œA success story!”

    βœ… Blames poor people for their poverty - β€œWhy don’t you just work harder?”

    βœ… Avoids paying taxes - β€œWhen I’m a billionaire, I won’t want to pay either!”

    βœ… 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) - β€œThe government should be run like a business”

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  • He's already wrong. If only he were dead.

    Then who'd be dead wrong?

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago

    alien bezos saying humans should stop resisting AI.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (1 child)
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    He took his plastic wife's advice and got botox and now he can't move his fucking mouth correctly.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago

    Alex Jones lookin ass

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

    Unsurprising reaction from a supervillain.

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

    Maybe just villain. There's really nothing super or special about the guy.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago

    Hate how this greedy ghouls are constantly amplified by news organizations as "experts" and "thought leaders".

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  • Literally opposite-world opinions

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  • [–] 37 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    Dude deserves the Mussolini treatment and nothing short of it.

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

    Too humane. They should suffer for many, many years isolated in a filthy jail cell first

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

    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)

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

    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

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    Fair enough.

    I personally don't think anyone with the capacity to become a billionaire still has a conscience with which to regret or introspect.

    Meanwhile based on my reading of history, exiling/imprisoning oligarchs works in their favour in the long run.

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

    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 😳

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

    Fuck what he says, why the fuck does he look like the bastard child between Santa Claus and Lex Luthor?!

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    I completely removed myself from Amazon since a few years and I couldn't be happier. Everyone should do this.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago*

    It Is Difficult to Get a Man to Understand Something When His Salary Depends Upon His Not Understanding It

    I’d imagine this applies even more to billionaires who make the average person’s salary every minute.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    Yeah that's pretty much the trifecta of doing everything people hate.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    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.

    β€œYou could double the taxes I pay, and it’s not going to help that teacher in Queens. I promise you.”

    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.

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