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Dudes and dudettes. Before you ask for higher taxes—hear me out. First, recognize the trajectory. Bezos is the definition of someone living out the American d
by mucholove 5y ago
Dudes and dudettes. Before you ask for higher taxes—hear me out.
First, recognize the trajectory.
Bezos is the definition of someone living out the American dream.
The corporate interest may be trending towards a monopoly—but this is a guy who was abandoned by his biological father, adopted by an immigrant, and was able to use his skills, smarts and efforts to achieve the easiest way for me to buy something.
Second—for all the taxes paid directly and indirectly in the US, the CDC and the FDA could not respond to this pandemic with any sort of competence.
Do I trust these people with money? No.
They could have spent 800 million dollars and avoided a pandemic—but once it started up again they just find it so easy to spend money like gangbusters.
This is a complicated issues. But before asking for higher taxes, ask for better constitutions.
PS-for my money, your tax rate should be based on lifetime earnings. I would love to know how to switch from yearly, to lifetime.
- ramesh31 5y ago>and was able to use his skills, smarts and efforts to achieve the easiest way for me to buy something. And a small loan of $200,000 from his parents. Also that.
- mucholove 5y agoYou’re supposed to build on the shoulders of giants. His parents went all in on him. That $200,000 was a meaningful amount of money to them. They bet the farm. I personally, want to live in a society which celebrates living on the shoulders of parents. Good for his immigrant father on being able to make this amount of money after having his fortunes erased in Cuba. At some point, we cant be expecting more rags to riches stories. We need more acrobats, leaping from our shoulders.
- jl2718 5y agoFunny to imagine. I did the opposite and spent the first 20 years of my career paying for my birth family, and only now am waking up to the idea of starting my own (family and career). This is a difficult shift in mindset. But ultimately you are right. His obligations to his parents were different but no less serious, maybe more so. By the way, I claim no hardship or victim status. It gave me a lot of courage to do things I would have been able to do otherwise. The problem was when things settled and they needed me less, and I no longer felt like I had to do anything crazy. Then it was like, “this is it?”.
- daseiner1 5y agothat is a small loan