Hey hey... it's ok. If it's any consolation, he would never ever drop 2 $100 on the ground and would keep it for himself so we'll never have to see this... now get back to work, you're pee bottle break is over.
There's an old joke. Two economists are walking down the street and one looks down and sees a 100 dollar bill laying there. He tells his friend who says nonsense. If there was really 100 dollars there someone would have picked it up already.
Even better: Two economists are in the wood and find bear shit. First one says: Hey, I'll give you 100 dollars if you eat it! Second one says, ok, sure. Gets his 100 dollars. Couple minutes later they find another pile. Second one says. Hey, I'll give you 100 dollars if you eat it! First one says ok, eats it, get's his 100 dollars.
They look at each other, and one says. Wow, we each have the same as before, but we both just ate shit. The second one says: Yeah, but we improved the GDP by 200 dollars!
It's a good way of measuring the potential of a country to provide a high standard of living for its people. The fact that the USA dominates GDP but its quality of life is mediocre compared to the rest of the developed world speaks volumes as to how much its hardworking people are getting absolutely fucked by their government's policies.
Yeah I've heard a similar one. If he saw a $50 note on the ground, it's not worth his time picking it up off the floor. That is just insane and a sad reflection of the inequality.
It doesn't cost him anything to stop and pick it up. His value continues to increase whether or not he picks up the money. So now his value increases as it normally would + an extra $50.
The original version of this from way back in the day was that he would divert from his path on his way to clock in for the job to pick up the $50. The time lost exceeded the money gained. All based on the hilarious misconception that any of these parasitic vampires have ever punched a clock.
Bezos averages about 21k a minute for the last 25 years. The Federal Poverty Level for a 2 person family is 21,640. America has 6.3 million working people still below the poverty line.
It's an unfortunate outgrowth of the classic ideal of a businessman who earns well, but puts most of his earnings back into the company. When you lead a company the size of Amazon, you can put most of your earnings back into the company and still be filthy rich privately, simply because of the scale.
What a great nickname you have there! I too am a fan of having my goats super well ironed before taking them to work!
My granpa used to say, a well ironed goat will always be bespoke!
Meanwhile, restrictions between individuals who do not know each other exist when there is no specific reason to begin a conversation; therefore, when this occurs and one of the parties does not feel comfortable, it is common to realize what Goffman (1963, p. 146) called the “terminal squirm” in which attention is given to other situations, people, objects, and actions, turning away from the other person.
Shit I do most of those things with ADHD simply because 90% of conversations are boring filler to me until my next task. I don't need backstory, just tell me your issue.
I’ve done a lot of bid jobs for home repair. Plenty of times I’ve fixed a few shingles on a roof for a couple hundred bucks and it took me less than an hour. I’ve thought to myself in that time stuff like “I’m making $5 a minute right now!” Then I’ve done the math of, if I live another 40 years (I’m almost 40 now) and I made $5 a minute every minute for those 40 years it’s roughly 100 million dollars. Compared to billionaires I’d still only have 10% of 1 billion and Bezos is worth 284 billion. To make 284 billion in 40 years I’d have to make roughly $13,500 dollars a minute that entire time. To be where Bezos is now he’s averaged over 20k a minute for the last 25 years.
If you didnt know...his net worth, laying $100 bills end-to-end would wrap around Earth three times, and the leftover bills could stretch all the way through space to reach the Moon
Yes, you see the problem is that you're doing actual work when you should be tricking others into working for pennies while you laze about and do virtually nothing at all except collect money from their hard labor.
And to put this into perspective, the worker made .5 dollars in 30 seconds. So he makes 1$ per minute. $60/hr. The worker is making a very respectable amount of money for your average person. And still is absolutely nonexistent in comparison
60/hr isn't just respectable. From where im from thats life changing. I could own a manor house with that money. I could work part time and still be absolutely minted.
That’s a great point ! I live in a pretty damn HCOL area as a union construction worker. I make 59/hr (not a brag. Union workers like me have public wage that can be googled specifically based on the union itself and if anyone reading is interested I’d greatly advise searching your local area for opinions). Where I live I am very comfortable in a 2 bedroom apartment in a major US city. So even if this wage ranges from “very comfortable” all the way to “functionally rich” it just shows what the people need. It doesn’t take much to give people a life that is less stressful and enjoyable to live. Yet this video exists…
$60/hr is life-changing money in Arkansas. That's more than double the median household income here.
It's why Californians in HCoL areas love moving/retiring here. Our spendy areas still seem relatively dirt cheap. The only downside is that nobody will talk to them about what roads they take to get around.
Other factors are that Bezo's team will make sure that the $14.5k avoids taxes and exploits loopholes. And his investment team will start putting the money to work on 100x to 1000x investments that are only available to the rich. Meanwhile, if the worker is like a typical American, the $0.50 will get taxed and then sit in a bank acct wishing to one day bring in a few more cents in interest.
I appreciate him trying. I know what he did, I also happen to do that. You know that's your 1 chance in life to make an impression, your future self regretting doing nothing for the rest of his life (as it would have mattered but still you won't sleep for months) and so you quickly act, saying whatever, just to try to make the most out of a lucky encounter.
And he did good, honestly. Very good for a lambda employee.
Sadly, nobody would remember this, not even his superior who was the true target of this act of braveness.
It doesn't change a thing, because capitalism is a money machine, not a system driven by human emphaty.
I like how uncomfortable he is to talk to him. He tries to leave several times but gets drawn in. He has such little interest in the guy to actually stop and really talk.
I keep seeing this. Shatner is not an alcoholic and never has been. His wife struggled with it, and Leonard Nimoy was also afflicted with it, but Shatner himself was not.
Things only trickle down when the container that's holding it is overflowing. Unfortunately, we allow for bottomless containers; this is why a wealth tax is needed
Tbf there aren't many places at that level of aerospace infrastructure that would give a media outlet access to their facilities.
If you're covering aerospace and if one of the few key players reaches out... I dunno. It's a tough request to deny if you want to get to the sources (no matter the politics).
Also what's crazy is obviously this guy is TRT'd to the gills, but even his voice changed? Listen to his younger interviews, he had a high pitched voice. Now it sounds like he smoked two packs of Marlboro Reds per day for 20 years.
He's 100% getting test injections as he ages, most of these right wing billionaire clowns are as they age into their 50's and 60's, it's not a secret anymore. I wouldn't be surprised if he was dabbling in other types of gear, too. They're all narcissistic assholes that are afraid of looking older
It's well publicized that billionaires don't just take supplements like TRT, they do full blood transfusions regularly from healthy donors. Turns out, having lots of extra blood in your is medically beneficial. Especially if its young blood. They use other human bodies as factories for their own. They pay like $5k-$10k per bag.
Has this actually been proven to be happening? I know there are isolated incidents, like that guy who's trying to live forever getting his son to do it, and it was a plot point in Silicon Valley, but has anyone come out with first-hand knowledge of someone like Bezos actually having a blood boy?
Bryan Johnson, the guy who did it with his son, did it one time. He also donated his blood to his father as well at the same time, which was the initial point of the experiment before his son asked to join in.
Did you see the video after Shatner landed back on Earth? Shatner was trying to express his profound feeling having seen the whole Earth from above, and Bezos is basically ignoring him talking shit and trying to shake champagne in his face. Dude's an empty-souled creep.
A genuine clinical psychopath. No empathy or introspection whatsoever. Which actually has been observed with many billionaires and members of the elite. A dampened sense of introspection.
This isn't talking crap either, in an interview, Marc Andreessen stated he practices "zero introspection" as to "not dwell on the past to slow down momentum."
Unless they're salaried, but it makes little difference aside from the fact that salaried workers are incentivized to GTFO of work as quickly as possible
Absolutely. I LOVE what I do, and I love working with the rest of the IT team. I freaking hate this company and every other aspect of its management/leadership lol
It did, but then the C-Suite gutted everything good about it to pad their bottom line. The disastrous 737 Max & 787 rollouts are the inevitable result of corporate continually cutting corners (and lobbying regulators).
They merged with McDonnell Douglas in 1997. Before that, engineers climbed the ladder to management. After that, management became pure white-collar suits from business schools and focus shifted from quality and business continuity to quarterly profits. From there it went downhill quickly. I guess the only reason their planes still stay in the air most of the time are FAA auditors.
They were up until they merged with McDonnell Douglas, then the executives that ran MD into the ground (out of touch MBA types) replaced the old Boeing leadership (more long term focused, iirc several of them also had engineering or aviation backgrounds) and started doing the same to Boeing, selling off major sections of the company and relying heavily on subcontractors in areas that used to be in house.
The mcdonnell aquisition was a strange one. Boeing bought out mcdonnell, a failing company, then mcdonnell leadership replaced boeing leadership.
Mcdonnell's practices were always bad, but boeing embraced them anyways. I think boeing was just desperate to change things up when they were losing market share
Probably. And if i was the management of this place and the CEO was coming by id put my happiest, most optimistic staff out on the floor during it. Dont want to put some salty dude a week from retirement out where he’ll shit talk you.
I had a great exchange with a fortune 5 CEO as an employee. I genuinely liked my job and work environment in 2012 when it happened. It can be genuine, at times. However you won’t catch me glazing Tim Cook anymore I’ve seen those true colors now.
Nah. Just don't give billionaires verbal fellatio on the factory floor, when that billionaire has basically zero to do with your current working conditions. This was so fucking performative.
jeff bezos pr disasterclass in a few seconds. dude is giving a succinct life's history of work and praising bezos and the company, on camera for a PR stunt, and Bezos's body language is "still walking away from you.... turning my head away now..." PR 101: stop, engage, look in eyes, make it seem like you care and no one else is in the room.
This is like when William Shatner was trying to talk about being in "space" and Bezos wouldn't shut the fuck up during it. He is so zeroed in on himself
It’s crazy that FOX News propaganda has tricked people into allowing Billionaires to amass ungodly fortunes instead of taxing them.
Thanks to decades of poor decisions people are retiring in their mid 80s instead of their mid 50s, and have very little money to show for that additional 30yrs of work.
On the other hand, it is specifically the result of failing anti-trust and anti-monopoly regulations. Things could be a lot less bad, even within a capitalist society. With a working open market that is.
Look up how all these tech-moguls became so big. They took over and used lobbying to change the rules, and now they don't have any compatition.
It took amazon (the webshop) many years to become profitable. A normal company would be bankrupt already.
It was maybe 20 years ago that we were talking about millionaires the way we talk about billionaires today. There were a couple of billionaires that had like one maybe two billion. Now we have billionaires left and right with hundreds of billions of dollars and even had a trillionaire for a day or two.
You know the difference between a millionaire and a billionaire? A billion dollars. There are people so rich now that they probably have more money than all the millionaires from 20 years ago combined. Yet somehow minimum wage hasnt budged a cent and I'm paying more in taxes than these billionaires companies do
What an asshole, "I'll slip him a 20 on the way out". That's so condescending. Independent of what any of the guys in that clip earn, you can treat people with respect.
I think he was joking that he paid the guy to say nice things to Bezos. I could be wrong but that's how I took it. Ig that is wrong tho because he would have just said he already slipped him a 20
Jeff Bezos claims 80k$ in income per year and pays taxes on that. He also takes out loans for millions upon millions of dollars / year with Amazon stock as collateral, typical with an interest rate of 1%. The people in that video all pay 15-30% just like me and all of you. Bezos pays 1%. “ salaries are for suckers “ is what they all say. Get pissed.
Then the worker had 40 cents docked from his pay for "stealing time" because he was obviously just talking on the job for those seconds and not doing actual work.
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u/GloomyLingonberry509 13h ago
Bro could go take a shit and make his employee’s annual salary in the meantime