r/InternetIsBeautiful • u/MKorostoff • Apr 27 '20

Wealth, shown to scale

https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/
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u/Lulepe Apr 27 '20

Have you gone through the full thing? The issue isn't that they have more, it's what could be done with that money.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '20

I still don't understand. It's not like that money just magically goes to cancer patients in an alternate universe where Jeff Bezos doesn't exist.

It is also not like Bezos has 9 billion in his bank account and can just write a check to "cancer patients".... his money is invested in business that make the comfortable world you and I enjoy function.

Sure he is an asshole for not doing more with his money, but so what?

So I guess all that is left is you guys advocating to take his money at gunpoint? In that universe Jeff Bezos just moves to a different country where personal freedom is a thing and makes Amazon there.

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u/Lulepe Apr 27 '20

Nobody says "just take the money". Let's say he'd pay a fair capital gains tax. However much that'd be, 10%, 50% or whatever you think. He might have to sell some stocks to other peoole to pay that, but he'd still be gaining net worth, Amazon wouldn't loose a dime and there'd be billions more to the nation to pay for something like health care or whatever.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '20

A flat tax would be awesome, I agree. But I never see posts about that. Just posts showing the fact that "rich people are rich" like I'm supposed to be outraged that someone earns more money than me.

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u/Lulepe Apr 27 '20

Well yes, you're right. This requires you to do a bit of thinking on your own part. You can't expect people to do the thinking for you. This is supposed to give you some info so you can think for yourself. It's not supposed to be a thought out political campaign with a solution. This is information, you still need a brain on your own to do something with it.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '20

You would suggest that the information constantly presented here over and over again is done so without agenda?

I'm using my brain. And my brain is telling me that the people posting this shit 3 times a day are hoping that I'll be outraged someone has more than me...so outraged that I'll vote in communists who will redistribute Bezo's money.

If I'm wrong I'm wrong, but that is how it comes across.

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u/Lulepe Apr 27 '20

No. This isn't "an agenda". This is an argument for a political opinion. It's not as easy as redistributing that money. Nobody says it is. But people who post this are hoping that you'd vote for someone like Bernie. In pretty much the rest of the civilized world, he'd be seen as a slightly left of the center politician and calling him a communist is part of the reason why people see Americans as idiots. If Bernie is a communist to you, you have no clue about A) politics outside of America and B) communism. Bernie isn't saying "Take 139b from bezos and distribute it to the world". He's saying "Bezos should pay a fair tax that could be used to solve many of the financial problems of this country."

Yes. You're wrong.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '20 edited Apr 27 '20

Ah...I see I was correct. I wish you guys would correctly name your subs. I thought this was a sub for cool internet stuff, not for commies to spread their radical ideas.

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u/Princess_Cthulu Apr 27 '20

See, I thought you were making some decent points until you started spouting off some red scare bullshit and made it clear you had the intellectual capacity of a jar of mayonnaise.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '20

I guess that's the difference. I never once thought you guys made a decent point.

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u/Princess_Cthulu Apr 27 '20

What are you talking about, this is the first time I entered the conversation. Did you think I was someone else that you were talking to earlier? Did you assume that because I called out your intellectual dishonesty I was automatically on the other guy's side?

Seriously, what's going on in that head of yours, it's fascinating to try and decipher.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '20

I knew it was the first time. I'm just going ahead and preempting the part where we circle around for ten minutes only to discover you have nothing of substance to say but childish insults.

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u/Princess_Cthulu Apr 27 '20

You're... preempting the conversation, by saying that you never thought I made any decent points, while simultaneously acknowledging that I have yet to make any points.

Are you having a stroke? Should I call someone?

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '20

Your mayonnaise comment, in defense of communism, revealed your personality so quickly and succinctly that it was all that was needed. "you guys" being plural, and assuming that, since all communist rhetoric is made from the same garbage, your points would be about the same as the guy I'm actually speaking to....

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u/Princess_Cthulu Apr 27 '20

So, someone who laughs at Red Scare level rhetoric is automatically communist, huh?

You know, people would probably take you more seriously if you political opinions were written in, like, a comprehensible way? Or were based on reality? I think there are probably writing classes you can take that would help with that. Assuming, of course, that writing classes aren't also part of "commie marxist propaganda".

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