Taylor Swift also arguably contributes something of value–music that a lot of people really like. Doesn’t mean either of them should be able to amass that much wealth. The tax system in the US is broken. In the US in 1961, for example, stock buybacks were illegal (so stocks paid dividends, which are taxable income), and any income above $32,000/year was taxed at 50%, up to a marginal tax rate of 91% for any income above $400,000/year. In contrast, the highest marginal tax rate in the US in 2024 was 37% for any income above $731,200/year, and companies buy back stocks rather than issuing dividends most of the time. Further, most millionaires and billionaires amass wealth through stocks rather than income, using loans against stocks for cash, meaning they pay almost no taxes and continue to amass personal wealth.
I would hazard a guess that Gabe rarely leaves the house. He’s probably more carbon-neutral than 90% of the self-congratulatory twats on this platform.
Yep. She’s not publicly eating babies and being carried on a palanquin by the poors. She ain’t good, but her badness is orders of magnitude below some of the mustache twirling villains out here tying people to railroad tracks.
She’s so good (chorus: how good is she?), she’s so good… that I don’t even know why people think she is bad. (Also relevant is that I don’t truly care enough to look it up?🤪)
But in contrast, everyone knows about The Musk, and Bezos, and so on. Taylor Swift, on the other hand, is known to travel in a jet (which considering how she likely goes with a full retinue of 10-50 people each time, and how much she would be absolutely MOBBED even by her adoring fans if she tried to use more public transportation options, definitely is the safest and might even be a very efficient form of travel under those circumstances?).
Not the same at all.
Then there’s the guy that was Luigi’d, not even a billionaire but with that mindset. So if one doesn’t need to be a billionaire to act like one, then it stands to reason that one could theoretically become one without needing to act like the others. Maybe. Though whether that applies to her I have no idea. Perhaps she simply has a better PR team.
Yeah but she’s the One Good Billionaire™️ for reasons nobody is able to articulate.
I thought that was Gabe Newell
Gabe actually does good, though. Valve has been a major contributor to several open source products
Does good != does only good
Does good != does good on average
Does good != is good
Taylor Swift also arguably contributes something of value–music that a lot of people really like. Doesn’t mean either of them should be able to amass that much wealth. The tax system in the US is broken. In the US in 1961, for example, stock buybacks were illegal (so stocks paid dividends, which are taxable income), and any income above $32,000/year was taxed at 50%, up to a marginal tax rate of 91% for any income above $400,000/year. In contrast, the highest marginal tax rate in the US in 2024 was 37% for any income above $731,200/year, and companies buy back stocks rather than issuing dividends most of the time. Further, most millionaires and billionaires amass wealth through stocks rather than income, using loans against stocks for cash, meaning they pay almost no taxes and continue to amass personal wealth.
and at the same time makes bank from kids gambling with Counter Strike skins, so a bit of a mixed bag there
I would hazard a guess that Gabe rarely leaves the house. He’s probably more carbon-neutral than 90% of the self-congratulatory twats on this platform.
The man owns six (6) yachts.
Carbon-neutral my fucking ass.
That might have more to do with how bad the others are than whatever she does herself…
Yep. She’s not publicly eating babies and being carried on a palanquin by the poors. She ain’t good, but her badness is orders of magnitude below some of the mustache twirling villains out here tying people to railroad tracks.
She’s so good (chorus: how good is she?), she’s so good… that I don’t even know why people think she is bad. (Also relevant is that I don’t truly care enough to look it up?🤪)
But in contrast, everyone knows about The Musk, and Bezos, and so on. Taylor Swift, on the other hand, is known to travel in a jet (which considering how she likely goes with a full retinue of 10-50 people each time, and how much she would be absolutely MOBBED even by her adoring fans if she tried to use more public transportation options, definitely is the safest and might even be a very efficient form of travel under those circumstances?).
Not the same at all.
Then there’s the guy that was Luigi’d, not even a billionaire but with that mindset. So if one doesn’t need to be a billionaire to act like one, then it stands to reason that one could theoretically become one without needing to act like the others. Maybe. Though whether that applies to her I have no idea. Perhaps she simply has a better PR team.
Honestly, if jets left trails that looked like this then nobody would want to fly so much, and public outcry would be a lot louder.
I do find it funny they use an old 1950s smoky long range bomber as an example
If a B-52 is smoking like that it does NOT have a long range anymore