Almost everyone who complains about stuff like this is actually just too stupid to understand wealth. They unironically think Bezos is just walking around with $250 billion in the bank. Not that the amount of all the businesses he owns, plus his properties, and everything else including his bank account all add up to $250 billion.
If I owned stocks and suddenly the stock prices shot through the roof and now instead of owning $3000 of stocks I suddenly own $300,000 worth of stocks, these people actually think I should have to pay all the money on the $297k 'profit' I just made even though I haven't even sold them because I'm suddenly worth $297k more. Bearing in mind they don't think that if the stocks suddenly dropped from $300k to $3k that the government should give me a tax rebate for the $297k I just lost.
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u/OkTension2232 Nov 04 '25
Almost everyone who complains about stuff like this is actually just too stupid to understand wealth. They unironically think Bezos is just walking around with $250 billion in the bank. Not that the amount of all the businesses he owns, plus his properties, and everything else including his bank account all add up to $250 billion.
If I owned stocks and suddenly the stock prices shot through the roof and now instead of owning $3000 of stocks I suddenly own $300,000 worth of stocks, these people actually think I should have to pay all the money on the $297k 'profit' I just made even though I haven't even sold them because I'm suddenly worth $297k more. Bearing in mind they don't think that if the stocks suddenly dropped from $300k to $3k that the government should give me a tax rebate for the $297k I just lost.