But billionaires have to be considered a national threat
I'm ok with millionaires
Ok
net worth $999 mil
make 1 mil
you're a threat lol
>create something that provides literally billions upon billions of dollars of value
>retain ownership of some of it
vs
>provide no value to anyone
>demand other peoples' property be taken by force and given to you, for no other reason but that you want stuff
>net worth $999.999
>make 1 dollar
>you're a threat now
of course
fuck you libtard, enough with your monopoly game
lel
you do have to laugh at the concept that guys who create amazing stuff that change the world, or who direct capital to fund amazing stuff that changes the world, are somehow a "security risk", but a mob of greedy, lazy people who provide nothing of value to others but who want stuff anyway, loudly demanding more productive people's property be taken by force and given to them, are somehow not
>changes the world
amazon is changing the wolrd for worse, definitely
>amazon is changing the wolrd for worse, definitely
Yeah, I hate getting things cheap and delivered right to my door the next day
You know what is awesome? Leaving my house, travelling to a store, walk around until I find the thing I want (assuming it is in stock and actually the brand/type I want), carry it to the checkout where I get to stand in line forever, in order to pay an inflated price for an item because I'm also paying for all of this place's overhead as well as their profit, and carry it home, at a cost of hours of my life, when I could've just clicked a button, paid a lower price, and then answered the door the next day.
Fuck Amazon, making buying stuff cheap, fast, and convenient, saving me untold thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours this year alone. How did they even get so big and profitable?
selfish faggot
think about your impact on the world
>selfish faggot
Create something that benefits hundreds of millions of people and get rich in the process: Selfish
Provide no value whatsoever to others but want other peoples' stuff given to you: Not at all selfish
>think about your impact on the world
Exactly.
Bezos, for example, is rich because he owns a chunk of Amazon, which he created and which has changed commerce. Amazon saves millions of people money and time every single hour of every single day. He's had a huge impact on the world, which is why he's hugely wealthy. That's fair.
You don't have any impact on the world. You don't even try to. The world's pretty fair, so what you have is commensurate with what you've provided to others -- not much. If you want more, make a bigger positive impact in more people's lives. It's not complicated.
>a mob of greedy, lazy people who provide nothing of value to others but who want stuff anyway, loudly demanding more productive people's property be taken by force and given to them
who are we talking about now? sounds like a typical billionaire to me.
>i have no idea how the tax code or monetary system works and how it siphons wealth upwards, even though im on a board dedicated to cryptocurrency, which was created to solve these exact problems
Some billionaires are cool
kinda funny watching fags like you stand up for people who literally don't give a single fuck about you
you're probably an amerishart though, so you must be used to being fucked in the ass and living in a backwards and brainwashed society
I used to be poor too, and I hated it, so I will tell you the thing that changed my life. The math to getting rich is:
Money = Impact x Scale
Where impact is the degree of positive change you make in someone else's life, and scale is the number of people you affect positively. That's literally the formula.
Build luxury condos for the super rich? On the 75th floor, you have created a luxury penthouse palace on what used to be literally empty air. Huge huge huge impact on a relatively small scale = lots of money.
Viral YouTubers? They provide a little bit of value (a few minutes of entertainment) for hundreds of millions of people. Relatively small impact but on a huge huge huge scale = lots of money.
Your talents and abilities will let you be somewhere in the middle of this. Think about what you can do for other people that will max out impact and scale, and you will make money.
>whining about the tax code and monetary systems
Both are literally custom designed to make it as easy as possible to get rich, what the fuck are you talking about
>banks will lend you a shitton of money at a tiny cost if you are not a nigger who has maxed out every card on malt liquor and rims
>every time you fart or cough in a business capacity it's tax-deductible
>if you decide to invest, capital gains are taxed at a fraction of income
>capital losses are tax-deductible and can be carried foreward into infinity
>if somehow you completely fuck up everything and lose every single dime of borrowed money, you can go bankrupt and your debts are wiped clean
What the fuck are you talking about
>stand up
lol, stand up against who? Some greedy poor fucker who's never done a thing for anyone else in his life, but who wants more than he's earned? One who's whining on the internet about how someone who makes a difference has more stuff than he does? I'm sure Bill Gates is quaking in his boots.
>you're probably an amerishart though, so you must be used to being fucked in the ass and living in a backwards and brainwashed society
I do love yuros who somehow never make the connection between their extremely modest standard of living, the unbelievably high taxes they pay on literally everything, and the inexplicable proliferation of Mercedes and Bugattis and Rolls Royces they see in their cities
The rich don't pay taxes, you idiot -- high taxes keep the poor from getting rich.
SOULESS CONSOOM. COMMUNITY IS KIL
GO BACK TO PLEBBIT
>spend hours of your life and burn fuel in order to get the thing you need for a high price, assuming it is available at the store when you get there
or
>click a button and have it for a lower price
People need things, you retarded nigger. Don't get mad that, shockingly, people like getting the things they need faster, cheaper, and more conveniently.
Shopping centers are an eyesore and make traffic worse. Good riddance. I'd argue that Amazon has done us a huge favor in suffocating the lifeless bullshit stores like Walmart, malls, and department stores. Your suburb is a blight, the opposite of a community. I will celebrate when you are gone just like I have Walmart. If you're worried about mom and pop stores selling pruning shears at 3x markup they can easily set up online with Amazon. There is literally no downside, aside from them getting btfo by more honest salesman who don't jew you on prices.
>create amazing stuff
I'd be okay with it if they really did all the work themselves.
>i'm comfy like that!
>not important if bezy will be the only one with a job in 20 years!
>comfy!
no need to be a BILLIONAIRE to be rich, and of course you will never be like one of them, and you won't even be a big millionaire
The existence of billionaires hasn't detracted anything from my life though. You wouldn't have a personal computer or smartphone to shitpost on if it weren't for billionaires.
But the real world-changing stuff always takes a team to do. I mean, no one human being can make the iPhone, it takes teams of engineers just to design one single component, let alone the manufacture, distribution, marketing etc
The thing is that any one engineer or factory worker or truck driver can be replaced and the whole process runs smoothly, but if someone shot Jobs in 2001 there'd be no iPhone. The guy with the idea, who then gets the resources and people together to make the idea real, is the one who makes the difference.
>muh jerbs!
There are 99% fewer ferriers and saddlemakers now than there were in 1850. It's stupid to want people to have a worse experience, taking more time and costing more money, in order to preserve McJobs.
>and of course you will never be like one of them, and you won't even be a big millionaire
I'm already a multimillionaire. I was dirt poor until I figured out how to get rich.
Without central banking it's extremely difficult to get to billionaire level.
I agree something needs to be done about those (((billionaires)))
I honestly think poors believe that billionaires actually just have billions of dollars in their bank accounts, instead of just owning a percentage of a company that provides billions of dollars of value to people
I guess the possible exception is defense contractors or anything that runs basically 100% on tax money
It has nothing to do with productivity and entirely on connections. You can be completely bankrupt company, and get bailed out, while successful businesses are either forced into debt slavery to the bank, or shutdown.
i'm ok with white, non-jewish billionaires who don't want to use their wealth to corrupt society.
>You can be completely bankrupt company, and get bailed out
True! If you can convince politicians that saving your jobs is politically valuable, they'll do it, especially since it's never their money that gets used.
>while successful businesses are either forced into debt slavery to the bank, or shutdown.
lmfao what, do banks come around with armed goons and force successful, liquid businesses to borrow money?
Go to africa. They have almost no billionaires.
The government does you twat. Slave to the Government or slave to the bank, where productivity is punished and con-men or incestuous corporate politicans are rewarded. Don't pretend the ultra (((elite))) are any better then welfare niggers on the street. Both sociopathic retards who ruin every country they occupy.
>The guy with the idea
This part is false.
>who then gets the resources and people together
This part is true.
If Jobs hadn't created the iPhone someone else would have, it's not like the idea was unprecedented. Apple has done just fine without him. He was, ultimately, as replaceable as any of those engineers, factory workers or truck drivers.
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