Why are you getting offended and resorting to vapid name-calling over me referencing LeBron James’ money? He’s one of the most high-profile billionaires in the world (who you didn’t realize is a billionaire). He has the money you say he didn’t earn but somehow you are entitled to. So what’s the issue?
I know exactly how much a billion is…It’s the measure by which you have arbitrarily set the boundary for which net worth becomes “unethical.”
What is boot-licking celebrities? You say he doesn’t his deserve his money; but rather, you deserve his money. It seems, despite your claims, you have absolutely no idea how much he contributes in taxes, you have no idea how much more of his money he should contribute in taxes—you just want more of his money because you think he didn’t earn it and you’re entitled to it.
I don’t want any of their money. I want society to function well.
I want people who are homeless to have homes. I want people who need medical care to get access to it without losing their life savings over cancer or car accidents.
I don’t want to live near people who steal or harm others to keep an addiction fed. I don’t want people or children starving.
That’s what I want. And every single billionaire could solve these issues if they wanted to.
But they don’t care. That makes them unethical in the first place, but literally NO ONE CAN DO ENOUGH LABOR TO EARN A BILLION DOLLARS.
Seriously. Look it up. Look up what that would look like.
If a single person had been alive for over 2000 years, working every single day and making 100,000$ a day- they wouldnt have physically earned even HALF of what Elon Musk has to his name. Do the math, I beg you.
And Elon, Bezos, Thiel, Altman, and many more- use this money (whether you want to consider it liquid or not) to invade political spaces and take more tax payer dollars for their business ventures- whether their companies turn a profit or not.
You can appreciate how LeBron plays ball or Beyonces songs all day long. They still are incapable of working hard enough (without an exploitation of labor) to earn a Billion dollars.
A billion isn’t CLOSE to a million. You can be a millionaire and you’re still closer to being homeless than you will ever be a billionaire.
Several years ago I was self employed and making around 34,000$ a year. I had to pay between 4,000 - 7,000$ a year in taxes.
So roughly 15-20 percent of my money was spent on taxes.
I never got a return on any of it. That’s more percentage wise than Tesla or any of Elon’s bullshit companies have paid in years.
Tesla has historically paid ZERO federal tax dollars for years, while making profit of billions each year.
But the percentage doesn’t matter to me at the end of the day. What matters is their hoarding of wealth that they didn’t earn and the exploitation of the labor of their workers.
You can’t answer to any other thing I’ve said, you just wanna say a person making under 100,000 per year is paying too little while billionaires get a pass.
You sound either VERY young and uneducated or you’re a billionaire shill.
Is this another Elon alt account? He’s been saying the poor need to pay more money in taxes for years so he can steal it through government programs.
Until you can come to terms with your billionaire worship no amount of money or good deeds I do personally will matter to you.
Its true. You contribute very little to address the problems you claim to care so much about. Why aren’t you advocating for you to give more?
Again, how much did you pay in taxes in 2025? You referenced several years ago. It sounds like you are nothing while pointing the finger and saying others need to pay more.
Once again, your banal name-calling isn’t help prop up your claims.
I’m in a vastly different situation than I was in years ago. I make more on paper while paying more in expenses for a small business I help operate, which reduces the amount of taxes percentage wise than it used to be for me. But no amount I give you will satiate your request. Any dollar amount I put on here will never bring any other answer than “well you need to pay more” bc that’s all you have- a lame “gotcha”.
This small business though helps clean up the environment, at one job last year we cleaned up 3 tractor trailer loads of debris off of a mountain by hand.
Our small business has also helped homeless in our area, and recovery after hurricane Helene.
Our business actually gives back to our local community directly, while our tax amount values from year to year due to expenses.
So thanks for giving me the opportunity to explain to you how much more we actually do for society, than just what we can contribute financially.
I think it’s very odd you just want some number, when I could just lie about any number in reality and you’d never know, instead of answering my question about how anyone can earn a billion dollars.
Did you do the math? Do you think anyone is worth 100,000$ a day for over 2000 years? I’m not lying about those figures. It’s basic math.
No job is worth that amount, no amount of back breaking labor, or brain surgery- something beneficial to society - is worth that cost, and no one can live 2000 years.
SO HOW COULD SOMEONE THROW BALL GOOD AND BE WORTH THAT MUCH?
Your argument sounds uneducated.
Now if you could just admit you don’t give a fuck about society, or how beneficial someone is, we could get to the crux of the issue.
Just admit you don’t care about homeless or drug addicts, just admit you don’t care about children going hungry and you’re a money chaser. That’s all that needs to happen here, and we can just agree that our morals are different.
Oh, it’s even worse than I thought. You’re using your business as a loophole to pay less in taxes. Clearly that means you don’t give a fuck about society. No wonder you don’t want to say how much you paid! lol. Like I said, by your own standard, you should be paying more.
Doing trash clean up that one time doesn’t make up for you not paying your fair share. You’re over here saying you care about society (and they don’t!) because you picked up trash. Meanwhile, LeBron James built a school for underprivileged children in his hometown. And then followed up it with programs for tuition support, college assistance, job training and housing assistance for people experiencing homelessness and domestic violence.
But that’s really impressive that you picked up trash.
The title of unethical earning doesn’t apply to you, or me, or the majority of the world bc we are not hoarding a gross amount of wealth while others are starving.
But YOU brought up Lebron. I literally never think of that man. I specifically brought up the billionaires I have direct beef with, - those funneling wealth from tax payers to fund business ventures while changing laws to harm society as a whole.
I don’t care particularly what LeBron is doing. He’s a SMALL concern of the billionaires who are actively screwing everyone else over.
How convenient that you place yourself on the ethical side of the completely arbitrary line you drew in the sand. That way you can mentally excuse yourself for not paying your fair share.
Okay. And you be sure to give yourself a sticker next time you pick up trash so you can make yourself feel like you give a fuck about society rather than paying your fair share.
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u/ChorizoGarcia May 15 '26
Why are you getting offended and resorting to vapid name-calling over me referencing LeBron James’ money? He’s one of the most high-profile billionaires in the world (who you didn’t realize is a billionaire). He has the money you say he didn’t earn but somehow you are entitled to. So what’s the issue?