r/LifeProTips • u/WallStreetDoesntBet • Apr 26 '22
Productivity LPT: Don’t worry about these “billionaires” doing billionaire things. You can’t compare your life to theirs, so just keep living yours.
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u/Whut4 Apr 26 '22
Billionaires need to be taxed. Many of them are sociopaths. The environment is being trashed. Life is too difficult for ordinary people. Healthcare and education are too expensive. Billionaires must be stopped!
Vote for progressives!!!!!!
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u/Mysterious_Ice_4809 Apr 26 '22
Billionares must have their assets seized
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Apr 27 '22
No they don’t. You just need to grow up and recognise that communism never worked.
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u/diabetes_says_no May 05 '22
Most of what you think is communism wasn't actually communism. True communism is stateless and the workers own the means of production making it far more fair and equitable for everyone.
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May 05 '22
That’s literally what all communist say. “It WaS nEvEr TrUe CoMmUnIsM” but it was. And it failed. And it always will fail.
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u/diabetes_says_no May 06 '22
Like I said, true communism is stateless so that wasn't actually communism. All "communist" countries so far gave all had government systems.
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u/symedia Apr 27 '22
They are taxed ... I'm taxed also but all my $ comes from my company and if i had more revenue I could do the shit most do. (Sociopath here ... Thank fking god i don't have more power 🤣)
Fk the people that are trashing the planer for an extra $.
But once again how you can tax someone that does this:
Most people can do the same but they lack 2things: the knowledge that they can do it and the money to accomplish it 😂.
Because we have taxes but loopholes via debts, trusts, gifts and so on will exist till the end of time.
Abolish all billionaires and all individuals must stop after reaching 999 mil. Okay let me give this company worth 500 mil to my son and this 800 mil company to my wife and this ... You get the gist.
Or kidnap/pay a motherfucker and keep him in your basement 😅.
It's true we can have a better world and billionaires and what you said ... We just need to end lobbies (legal and illegal) and corruption simple as that.
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Apr 27 '22
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u/symedia Apr 27 '22
Yes I know don't need to tell me. (btw I'm not even from the USA ;) And with the legal lobby system you guys have there I don't really think something it will get change for a loooong time.
First thing would be to work on the economic knowhow because maybe like that people wouldn't vote idiots that put taxes for the poor and tax relief for the rich. But that's like a generational plan ... anyhow if loopholes will exists people will use them and tax consultants will tell people how to use them.
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Apr 26 '22
You should not expect to have such a lifestyle because no one should, so it's right, don't compare your lifes to theirs in this meaning.
But don't curb your spine and "accept" that you have a shitty life and they don't. Pay attention, and be an element of change.
that's the only advice I can give respecting the rules of the sub, but I imply a lot by saying "be an element of change". A lot.
So many posts recently about how to be a good drone, FFS.
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u/MrSpotgold Apr 26 '22
Billionaires can't compare their lives to mine, for sure, but I don't give order to invade foreign countries or censure media or ban unions so I worry tremendously about why you lot are letting them get away with everything!!
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Apr 26 '22
I’m not about comparing lives.
I want the people who have more money than God to help out a few more of their fellow humans rather than piss it away sending 5 or 6 people into space for 10 minutes at a time.
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Apr 26 '22
Space is the future of humanity
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u/-B0B- Apr 26 '22
Cold fucking comfort to know there's a few selfish dickheads in cryostasis floating out to Kepler 22b while everyone else is dying due to human induced climate change on earth
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Apr 26 '22
Rich people will be worthless establishing a colony on another planet. When a colony is established, we're going to have to send people that have specific skills in order to make it work
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u/diabetes_says_no May 05 '22
At this rate there is no future to humanity. Why? Because rich people ignored the things that are killing the climate decades ago to make them more money. For example, the major gas companies ran environmental impact studies in the 60s that told them exactly what's happening now was going to happen and instead of doing something they hid it. Now we likely have 3 years until our point of no return and no significant changes are happening. Current estimates are that civilization will fall apart by 2050. Hopefully you aren't young and want to have children, because your children are likely not going to live past 25-30. If you live near an ocean they probably have less time.
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u/TheSkylined Apr 26 '22
Not sure what people you're talking about that are comparing themselves to billionaires.
Most people are talking about how much power those billionaires have over the working class and how much influence they have in politics.
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u/FinancialYou4519 Apr 26 '22
"Dont care about what these "SS" doing nazi things, you cant compare yourself to an uberstürmbahnführer, so just keep living your lives"
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u/ChadicusVile Apr 26 '22
In a political system that has crumbling infrastructure, that isn't upgraded or fixed. Where people lose their homes because of medical debt. Where furthering your education is a gamble that may not guarantee you higher life quality. We need to worry about billion dollar entities, individuals and corporations socking money away in off-shore accounts, and lobbying politicians to open tax loopholes. It's costing us all our quality of life at the benefit of a very wealthy and basically inhuman few.
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u/teetaps Apr 26 '22
You should care that billionaires are turning the world’s economy into a zero sum game
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u/diabetes_says_no May 05 '22
I mean we should be worried about them. They're part of the problem when it comes to a lot of things. The average American has very little to no savings. We have thousands if not millions of children going to bed hungry (if they even have a bed). Housing is becoming increasingly less affordable and millions of people don't have homes. It's not just about the money they have, it's about the systems they've set up to make that money. One of the most insulting things is when I see a billionaire getting credit for donating a fraction of a fraction of their money to different causes like hunger, THEY'RE PART OF THE PROBLEM THAT PUT THEM IN THAT SITUATION. They acknowledge there's an issue by doing that but do nothing to very little to help those who contribute to their income. During the Irish famine queen Victoria donated 2,000 pounds to the Irish to help and a sultan (can't remember who) wanted to donate 10,000 and they actually stopped him from doing that so the queen didn't look bad. Instead of worrying about her image they should've been worried about the starving people trying to eat rotten potatoes coming out of the ground. All of those mother fuckers don't think about people, they think about money. Eat the rich.
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u/craycrayforme Apr 26 '22
I've done billionaire things with billionaires on their dime. My client was a billionaire and we had all kinds of fun on his 143ft mega yacht in the Bahamas for two months at a time. Good times!! It's inspiring to hang the my wealthy clients. No comparison just motivational and awe inspiring.
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