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Just work harder and you can be one of the five richest men.
“jUst wOrK hARdEr aNd yOU wiLL sTOp beING depRESsED!” -my parents every time I mention my depression
I mean, in fairness, hitting the gym or going for a bike ride significantly improves my mood. But I’m not getting paid for that shit.
If we work hard we can all be in the 1%.
It’s funny, because you can argue that a rising tide carries all the ships. If we all pull together we will achieve a quality of life that our ancestors considered beyond luxurious. That was the appeal of the industrial revolution and then the computational/miniaturization revolution that followed.
At the same time, the idea of an egalitarian prosperous working class has been whittled away by bigotry, ageism, and regional resentments. We don’t work for the betterment of our community as a whole. Everyone’s a mercenary, pillaging for their own team or tribe.
Hard work in a socialist economy means working for everyone so we all get to enjoy the fruits of our labors. A collaborative game where we all work towards a high score.
Hard work in a capitalist economy means knee-capping your opposition to get to the top of an increasingly steep and treacherous pile. A hyper-competitive game where you’re endlessly aiming to leapfrog the person ahead of you and dodge the knife from the one behind.
a rising tide carries all the ships
Except the ones already taking on water. Those just get to sink further/be drowned deeper.
Wake up at 4 am after 3 hours of sleep, have a rich daddy, and you too can be a billionaire parasite.
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1035-finger discount.
Lmao why are people down voting this obvious shitpost, it’s great
But we’re told Warren Buffet is the good kind.
He is!
https://givingpledge.org/pledger?pledgerId=177
There’s an Indian parable about a rich man. Every time a beggar asks for money, he gives it, until he has no more to give and is himself a beggar.
You can’t give it all up and expect to continue contributing.
The overwhelming majority of contribution in society comes from the working class.
Taking money and then giving it back is the bare fucking minimum a person can do. It’s like taking the whole cake and then giving back a thin slice. Hardly commendable.
Every time a beggar asks for money, he gives it, until he has no more to give
Why would the rich man ever run out? Wealth isn’t merely a pile of currency, it is a collection of wealth producing assets.
A man who collects $1000/day in rents will never have less than $1000/day to give to beggers.
The harder question to answer is why some of us pay others for the privilege of accessing public goods.
The system is working as intended.
If you don’t like it… Well, Luigi set an example there.
GL HF.
Yup.
- Open the rich like tauntauns
- Live inside them
- Housing crisis solved
Surely completely unrelated statistics.
So who’s going to have the balls for the job?
Not me. However there are 8 billion people in the world. I have my doubts that you can continue squeezing everyone as hard as you can without them eventually getting pissed and fight back.
The number of poor people in the world greatly out numbers these rich fucks. No amount of political posturing or technology will save them. You reap what you sow and what they have sowed is civil unrest.
It might not seem like it today, but judgement day is coming.
Issues with this post/CNN article:
1 - Where is Mark Zuckerberg in the photo? He is currently the 3rd richest.
2 - The article is a year old - Musk’s net worth has went up $223 billion just in calendar year 2024 alone.
So, the article is technically right (fortunes have more than doubled) but some billionaires have tripled or more.Wealth of billionaires almost 5 years ago - Jan 1, 2020
Wealth of billionaires today - Dec 27, 2024
Just in that 5 year period Elon Musk went from $27 billion to $452 billion!
Zuckerberg almost tripled and Larry Ellison almost quadrupled!
Other non-top 5 billionaires like Michael Dell went from $30 billion to $127 billion!
Jensen Huang (founder of NVIDIA) went from $5.73 billion to $120 billion! - so his wealth multiplied by a factor of more than 20!All of those gains posted above happened in a short 5 year period. So, saying billionaires have doubled
their net worth is technically accurate but it’s not showing you the insanity of what’s really going on.Not a meme.
Yeah, this is just pointing out the problem.
It is actually:
Meme - noun
- an idea that is passed from one member of society to another, not in the genes but often by people copying it
- Other cultures have similar versions of this meme.
- the political and cultural memes of the 21st century
- an image, a video, a piece of text, etc. that is passed very quickly from one internet user to another, often with slight changes that make it humorous
- an internet meme/a blog meme
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/english/meme
It’s a meme in the same sense that some SCPs are described as memetic. Being humorous is not a requirement, though it is often the intention.
By Dawknin’s original definition (cultural) memes are ideas, behaviors, styles, or practices that spread within a culture by imitation (Greek mimema, meaning “imitated”) and carry symbolic meaning. Some examples would be the “Keep Calm And Carry On” posters during WW2, the concept of the “American Dream” or toasting with glasses.
However in this context we’re talking about internet memes which is not synonymous with cultural memes. An internet meme is a picture or video that is funny, ironic, or relateable.
Eh it absolutely is synonymous. And in the broader point that Dawkins made that you are missing out on is that evolution can act on these units. Since there is a selective pressure we should hardly expect them too look the same over time unless they are particularly well suited, case in point:
an image, a video, a piece of text, etc. that is passed very quickly from one internet user to another
This still fits even with the context.
This is the natural result of decades of sustained exponential growth. At roughly 10%/yr, markets will double every 7-8 years. That’s three doubling times in about 25 years, or 2^3 which is 8x. And that’s how you get a house that was like $100k-$200k in the year 2000 to turn into a house for like $800k-$1.2m in 2024. It’s only going to get worse.
Extreme wealth hoarding is an inherent end result of capitalism, which we could eliminate by capping wealth and channeling all excess income directly to public use. This would not be easy AT ALL because of the political opposition (which is mostly conditioning). But we won’t do it, instead we will wait until the problem gets so bad it causes a revolt and then we’ll blame the revolters.
This is the official regime policy. Looks everything is working great.
Infinite pie evangelists in shambles.
That money has to come from somewhere.
