Poll of the Day > Bezos Surpasses $200B

(+) Yeah! (+)

https://nypost.com/2020/08/26/jeff-bezos-is-worlds-first-ever-200-billion-man/

He spent $165M on a house in LA but wants to merge four condos in NY to create a dream home. Guess the $165M one isnt dreamy enough.

---

gotta be on both coasts

---

why do you care so much where the guy lives

---

cry moar

---

Mead posted...

why do you care so much where the guy lives

Is that really what you got from my post Mead

---

zebatov posted...

Is that really what you got from my post Mead

considering its all you posted besides the link, yeah

---

Mead posted...

considering its all you posted besides the link, yeah

Mead posted...

Thats too bad man.

---

I say we tax the hell out of the fucker and his company

---

elon musk will surpass him one day

---

Filthy fucking leeches.

---

Cool. Amazon provides amazing and cheap service and people love using it. He made a damn good product that makes him a lot of money, it's his money to use. Stop advocating for stealing people's money just because they're good at making it.

---

SirPikachu posted...

Stop advocating for stealing people's money

make me

---

Considering that almost all of the wealth is stock IN HIS OWN COMPANY, once again it's not particularly meaningful.

Gaawa_chan posted...

Filthy fucking leeches.

The government really does bleed the rich, tbh. >_>

---

Yes, if he sold his stock he would have that much money. Its not actual income.

---

SpeeDLeemon posted...

gotta be on both coasts

With 200Bil, he could probably build a home that stretches across to both Coasts...

Zeus posted...

Considering that almost all of the wealth is stock IN HIS OWN COMPANY, once again it's not particularly meaningful.

Why do you think this is anything more than a technicality? Do you actually believe Bezos isn't orders of magnitude richer than any human will ever have any need to be even if you only count his liquid assets? That his net worth is not in any way an indicator of the kind of power he holds?

No, he doesn't literally have 200 billion dollar bills sitting in a vault somewhere. Nobody actually believes that, as desperately as you seem to enjoy humping that particular strawman. That does not in any way mean that a net worth of $200,000,000,000 is not significant or meaningful, and your insistence on suggesting such nonsense just makes you look like a desperate fanboy hoping that Bezos-senpai will notice you if you spend enough time defending him against people criticising the obscene degree to which he has hoarded wealth. It's terribly silly and you should stop it immediately.

SirPikachu posted...

Cool. Amazon provides amazing and cheap service and people love using it. He made a damn good product that makes him a lot of money, it's his money to use. Stop advocating for stealing people's money just because they're good at making it.

Nobody's suggesting that Bezos doesn't deserve to make a lot of money. He's provided a service that has proven to be very successful and profitable, and as a result, he absolutely deserves to live out the rest of his life in complete luxury, never wanting for anything or needing to work another day in his life to sustain that.

He does not, however, deserve to be able to live out 10,000 such lives. Nobody deserves that, nor will anybody ever be able to deserve that because nobody will ever be able to live 10,000 lives. That is a ridiculous, meaningless amount of wealth, and there is absolutely no value in a system that not only permits such hoarding, but actively encourages it. I'm not about to suggest trying to claw back the money he's already made, since that would just be messy and convoluted, but the system that has permitted him and his fellow multibillionaires to become so meaninglessly wealthy at the expense of the rest of the country/world is broken and needs to be fixed to prevent the problem from continuing and repeating itself.

pionear posted...

With 200Bil, he could probably build a home that stretches across to both Coasts...

the wind would destroy it and theres no way you could keep bugs and hobos out of it

---

Who cares what Bezos does....?

Bella Thorne made $2million overnight when her OnlyFans account went live, just the other day.... who cares?

You dont blame those people for getting rich the way they do, you blame the simps and suckers that endorses them..... yourselves...

If I had a knack for exploiting money from you all,.. you bet your ass I would use your own consumerism to bleed you dry.

ryanell666 posted...

you bet your ass I would use your own consumerism to bleed you dry.

well get to work bro

you deserve to treat yoself

---

Mead posted...

why do you care so much where the guy lives

It's called fiery, burning jealousy. It's a condition a lot of people suffer from. Quite often the inept, unmotivated, and unintelligent.

Sadly, there isn't a cure that's universally effective yet, but hopefully, we'll find one someday.
---

ryanell666 posted...

Who cares what Bezos does....?

Bella Thorne made $2million overnight when her OnlyFans account went live, just the other day.... who cares?

You dont blame those people for getting rich the way they do, you blame the simps and suckers that endorses them..... yourselves...

If I had a knack for exploiting money from you all,.. you bet your ass I would use your own consumerism to bleed you dry.

Yeah I always get the feeling that with these eat the rich! type topics, theyre really just made so that people can whine about not having wealth that theyre jealous of.

Yes, it would be nice if that wealth was distributed to more people. But unfortunately thats not how it is. And Im sure most of you are gearing up to call me a bootlicker but I dont care.

Rather than whining about it on a dying video game message board and creating this miserable circle jerk, why not try and come up with your own idea thatll make a lot of money. Then you can distribute it to others too!

---

people bitching about someone having "too much" money, while having their own luxury items....

bet there are tons of people who think you have "too much". does that mean they get to take money from you?
---

More blood on Bezo's hands...

i bet he has some super shady dealings... you know what they say.

mo money, mo prob- *gets shot*

---

Mead posted...

why do you care so much where the guy lives

Cause Trump hates Bezos with a passion.

---

_AdjI_ posted...

Why do you think this is anything more than a technicality? Do you actually believe Bezos isn't orders of magnitude richer than any human will ever have any need to be even if you only count his liquid assets? That his net worth is not in any way an indicator of the kind of power he holds?

No, he doesn't literally have 200 billion dollar bills sitting in a vault somewhere. Nobody actually believes that, as desperately as you seem to enjoy humping that particular strawman. That does not in any way mean that a net worth of $200,000,000,000 is not significant or meaningful, and your insistence on suggesting such nonsense just makes you look like a desperate fanboy hoping that Bezos-senpai will notice you if you spend enough time defending him against people criticising the obscene degree to which he has hoarded wealth. It's terribly silly and you should stop it immediately.

Nobody's suggesting that Bezos doesn't deserve to make a lot of money. He's provided a service that has proven to be very successful and profitable, and as a result, he absolutely deserves to live out the rest of his life in complete luxury, never wanting for anything or needing to work another day in his life to sustain that.

He does not, however, deserve to be able to live out 10,000 such lives. Nobody deserves that, nor will anybody ever be able to deserve that because nobody will ever be able to live 10,000 lives. That is a ridiculous, meaningless amount of wealth, and there is absolutely no value in a system that not only permits such hoarding, but actively encourages it. I'm not about to suggest trying to claw back the money he's already made, since that would just be messy and convoluted, but the system that has permitted him and his fellow multibillionaires to become so meaninglessly wealthy at the expense of the rest of the country/world is broken and needs to be fixed to prevent the problem from continuing and repeating itself.

The point is that it is really more of a reflection of how much Amazon is worth. He owns 10% of Amazon, and 10% of Amazon is worth 171 Billion dollars. If Amazon became worth zero tomorrow he would lose 171 Billion dollars.

So I don't really understand what people propose be done about this. Is the plan to take a large portion of his stake in the company and distribute it out to people?

---

Gaawa_chan posted...

Filthy fucking leeches.

Lol the jealousy.

ryanell666 posted...

Who cares what Bezos does....?

Bella Thorne made $2million overnight when her OnlyFans account went live, just the other day.... who cares?

You dont blame those people for getting rich the way they do, you blame the simps and suckers that endorses them..... yourselves...

If I had a knack for exploiting money from you all,.. you bet your ass I would use your own consumerism to bleed you dry.

I heard there were no nudes too so anybody that did it is an even bigger idiot than initially thought.
---

Zeus posted...

Considering that almost all of the wealth is stock IN HIS OWN COMPANY, once again it's not particularly meaningful.

The government really does bleed the rich, tbh. >_>

You need to remember youre talking about thousands of millions, so when you say most, thats still hundreds of millions of dollars in a bank.

Asking him if you could have $1,000,000 would be like asking a normal person if they could borrow a dollar.

And number twenty is wrong, just like the post he quoted. No surprise there.

---

Krazy_Kirby posted...

people b****ing about someone having "too much" money, while having their own luxury items....

_AdjI_ posted...

Nobody's suggesting that Bezos doesn't deserve to make a lot of money. He's provided a service that has proven to be very successful and profitable, and as a result, he absolutely deserves to live out the rest of his life in complete luxury, never wanting for anything or needing to work another day in his life to sustain that.

He does not, however, deserve to be able to live out 10,000 such lives.

Wheeeeee...

Krazy_Kirby posted...

bet there are tons of people who think you have "too much". does that mean they get to take money from you?

I mean, that is basically what progressive taxation is. Those who can spare it are taxed to provide for the needs of those who can't. That a disproportionate amount of that tax burden falls on the middle class is a sizable part of the problem here. The middle class makes enough to be considered able to spare a higher tax burden, but doesn't make enough to afford high-end accountants to finagle their way out of paying taxes according to what they're able (to say nothing of the fact that things like offshore tax havens simply aren't offered to lower net worth clients). When there are middle class individuals who pay more taxes in a year than a corporation that made literally a million times more than they did, that's a failure of how the system is supposed to work.

So yes, people should be expected to give up some degree of luxury to support the needs of their community, including those who are struggling to support themselves. That should be expected of people of all classes, though.

^
except lots of people here are wealthier than lots of others.

don't say someone doesn't need so much, while having things you don't need.
---

Every time there's a steam key give away someone hoardes all the keys ,doesn't post and doesn't say thank you
---

Beveren_Rabbit posted...

Every time there's a steam key give away someone hoardes all the keys ,doesn't post and doesn't say thank you

wrong thread
---

I saw on Twitter people posted that protestors were building a guillotine outside his house. That can't be where he actually lived though, not in a gated community that would keep protestors out?

---

Lot of tools in here who don't understand that profits are theft.

---

Gaawa_chan posted...

Lot of tools in here who don't understand that profits are theft.

taking someone's money because you think they have too much is factually theft
---

Krazy_Kirby posted...

don't say someone doesn't need so much, while having things you don't need.

There's "don't need" in the sense of "I could live without this," and then there's "don't need" in the sense of "you would literally need to attain immortality to ever have a chance of spending anywhere close to all of this." There's a lot of grey area around the concept of "you don't need this much," yes, and I'm perfectly in favour of erring on the side of luxury in trying to draw a more concrete line (again, plenty of rich people have worked hard enough for their money to deserve luxury and comfort, and that's not a bad thing), but that grey area doesn't include billionaires, and very clearly doesn't include multibillionaires.

Gaawa_chan posted...

Lot of tools in here who don't understand that profits are theft.

Is this satire? Lol

I'm all for minimum wage being raised to 20 an hour but what you're saying is absolutely absurd. I would say we need to find a way to tax billionaires way more heavily but I don't trust our government to funnel that money in meaningful ways to the general public

OhhhJa posted...

I don't trust our government to funnel that money in meaningful ways to the general public

The most obvious way to do so would be to redistribute the tax burden so more of it is placed on people who really aren't going to suffer for it (the practical difference between making 500 million in a year and making 100 million is negligible, and an 80% tax would be far more extreme than would ever be reasonable to suggest). Even without going so far as to institute a UBI/minimum income system (which would likely require more tax revenue, even though reallocating money from the existing welfare budget and streamlining it would cover a sizable chunk without needing anything else) or any other major expansion of government services and just maintaining the same tax revenue goals as are currently held, that'd put a sizable chunk of money back into the pockets of the middle class.

In practice, I can't imagine new taxes would ever be introduced while just maintaining total tax revenue, especially given the current situation of Covid having racked up some major deficits. Odds are, they'll try to increase tax revenue with it, and a solid chunk of that will go toward giving government employees (mostly higher-ups) raises. But even that's better than having all of it concentrated in such a small number of people, as much as it's flagrantly corrupt.

Krazy_Kirby posted...

^
except lots of people here are wealthier than lots of others.

don't say someone doesn't need so much, while having things you don't need.

Its not even comparable.

And youve said that twice now. So what things do I have that I dont need?

---

DrPrimemaster posted...

Yes, if he sold his stock he would have that much money. Its not actual income.

Even if he could offload his entire position -- and thus surrender a controlling stake in his company -- the per-share value would fall so he wouldn't have nearly that much. Honestly, if he tried to dump that much, it would likely tank the stock because investors would assume the worst.

_AdjI_ posted...

Why do you think this is anything more than a technicality? Do you actually believe Bezos isn't orders of magnitude richer than any human will ever have any need to be even if you only count his liquid assets? That his net worth is not in any way an indicator of the kind of power he holds?

No, he doesn't literally have 200 billion dollar bills sitting in a vault somewhere. Nobody actually believes that, as desperately as you seem to enjoy humping that particular strawman. That does not in any way mean that a net worth of $200,000,000,000 is not significant or meaningful, and your insistence on suggesting such nonsense just makes you look like a desperate fanboy hoping that Bezos-senpai will notice you if you spend enough time defending him against people criticising the obscene degree to which he has hoarded wealth. It's terribly silly and you should stop it immediately.

Because it's not just a "technicality," it's an important distinction. If Amazon shares rise $20, Jeff Bezos doesn't have that extra money. If they fall $20, Jeff Bezos doesn't have that much less money. And if he tried to liquidate his shares, the price on those shares would almost certainly plummet. As far as wealth goes, stock is more tenuous than other holdings.

And I'm sure "Bezos-senpai" is pleased that you're stumping so hard for his ass and promoting him to the moon. Granted, it's not the first time you've stumped for "Bezos-senpai" either. You've defended his propaganda outlet (WaPo) and defended the USPS which has basically served as a government subsidy for his Amazon. And you pretend that owning shares in his own fucking company is "hoarded wealth" to make it sound more impressive than it is. He's not a dragon, he's a mere mortal.


---