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    14 hours ago

    We need to protect people like Zuckerburg from being singled out and hated by society. This is why we need to tax his wealth until he’s no longer a billionaire. We need to tax him for his own good.

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    Zuckerberg is the fifth-richest person in the world with an estimated net worth of $228.3 billion, according to Forbes. In 2015, Zuckerberg and Chan pledged to give away 99 percent of their shares in Meta (Facebook at the time) to philanthropy over their lifetimes. To date, they’ve given away more than $7 billion.”

    So in 10 years they’ve given away 3% of his net worth? Fucking slackers.

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    TBH Eilish always seemed really fake before, kind of vulgar and low talent with the pop equivalent of mumble rapping, but this kind of statement is as real as it gets bringing attention to the fact that “things are really, really bad” because you know for sure a lot of assholes in that crowd were trying real hard to ignore it.

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    Real issue is not just owning billions, the real issue is also what you have to do to hold on to that kind of money: suck up to dictators so they let you monopolize tech and rush small competitors.

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      She is a pop star, of course, and therefore commands a sizeable fanbase and attention of the press, and anything she says will have weight.

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    “drags”

    This is why AI is so successful in replacing bloggers but will never even come close to replacing real journalists.

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    Working 40 hours a week at $20 an hour gets you less than $35k take home a year. Fuck billionaires and millionaires.

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      When I was growing up, I didn’t even have a concept of a billionaire. I remember considering that to be a millionaire you had to be able to spend a million dollars and still have a million left over. In effect, a person wasn’t a millionaire until they had reached the second million. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire threw me for a loop because the top prize was only a million dollars.

      When I was a young teenager I was quite pleased at saving $300 to buy a new bike because after I bought it, I still had just over a hundred dollars left. It was euphoric to have been a hundredaire for a few days.

      Not sure why that popped into my head reading your comment, but there you go.

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    According to People, Zuckerberg did not clap after Eilish’s statement — at least according to an eyewitness who was present at the event and spoke with the publication.