• jpreston2005@lemmy.world
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      people need to learn that 99% of the populations health, education, freedom, and happiness is being actively sabotaged by 1% of the people. If that 1% was anyone but the rich and powerful, we’d have done something about it by now. You shilling for our continued subservience is pathetic.

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        Facts before feelings. Many of the people here downvoting me genuinely think people like Bezos or Musk are just sitting in a pile of cash choosing to hoard money instead of helping the less fortunate.

        Also - you’re part of the 1%

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          Musk managed to get his hands on $44 billion to buy twitter pretty easily. They may not be sitting on a literal pile of cash, but the ultra-wealthy can always get easy access to it.

          And Bezos had a take home amount of $4 billion in 2019, not his stock, his take home cash for one year. That’s an absurd amount of money.

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      People really need to learn that you have almost infinite leverage and credit with net worth and wealth like Bezos. Man will never have to spend a cent of his own illiquid assets and will live like an emperor until he dies still.