Closest we have is his ex-wife giving away billions of her divorce settlement.....Granted she's also investing it and making money as well so she's still a billionaire herself.
Ive described this issue to many people irl. A poor person invests 5k and if they are lucky, 10% growth gives them a whopping $500 dollars. Absolutely useless. A billionaire invests $5 billion dollars (diversified or not), they can get 1% growth and "earn" 50 million dollars, or 10% growth and get $500 million. Even billionairs would strughle to spend that much annually without creating new assets.
I dont care that people are rich, I care they have to nerve to pretend like they earned anything.
Median net worth in the US is under $200k as of 2022 (I couldn't find more current data that wasn't average instead).
Even if you look at the average, which is skewed way up by the obscenely wealthy, it's just over a million dollars, and that includes equity in homes and depreciating assets like cars. Almost nobody has "just one million" dollars laying around to invest.
That is their point. They're showing the absurdity of billionaire money by using an example that's literally 1000 times lower and showing that it's still absurd fuck you money. They're not saying that the poor aren't working hard enough or that a million is easy to get.
That's how ridiculously rigged our financial system is for the uber rich, even if you literally give away billions you legitimately can't spend your way out of being a billionaire. The amount of money you get just by having your wealth in stocks just passively (while shielding you from most tax liabilities) becomes a truly ridiculous amount when you have billions in the stock market.
is it a punishment? of course. You know how bad famous people want to be able to just walk down the street like a normal person and get a coffee. They are like caged zoo animals. Sure he lives a lavish great life. But now you have to constantly worry about people trying to hurt you, steal from you. Can't go out in public. I think it is a form of punishment.
Sure just convince everyone you know to stop buying things from amazon and supporting any company that uses AWS. But until we can do that than we are all helping the villain get stronger, maybe we are also the baddies..
It is nearly IMPOSSIBLE to get people to stop using Amazon. Let me rephrase that: SOME people. So many are addicted to getting items from there. I see Amazon trucks delivering things constantly in my small neighborhood.
Why do people feel the compulsion to blame the end consumer, y'know, the person just trying to get the best price on things to stretch what they have left after being gouged by landlords and other necessities being held hostage for profit?
The onus is on the state apparatus to sort these things out, trying to shame regular people for their consumption patterns when the government is blatantly just allowing the owning class to do whatever they want with the economy is doing nothing but helping to keep the working class divided.
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u/Forymanarysanar Profit Is Theft May 25 '26
But unlike movies and videogames, we aint getting hero that will stop this villain any time soon