the simpsons went from being a national treasure to a trashional never
What was the point of that episode?
It's a fantastic point, but John Boyega's net worth also puts him at $6 million. When he says eat the rich, he isn't safe either...
There’s a pretty big fucking difference between six million and one trillion lmao
Not to mention the way the money was made
An actor being paid for a role / doing some advertising is a world away form a man setting up a cooperate money machine that horrendously exploits workers
This is something I hate SO MUCH about how tumblr talks about money.
Like, I get that famous actors have large amounts of money, some of them are even probably overpaid (I have complicated thoughts about how actors are paid because of the nature of acting as a career), but they are exchanging labor for money, and their salaries are an expense involved in making a movie.
But like... an actor is paid for a job. They’re a worker like the rest of us. Bezos isn’t paid for a job, he’s paid for being the person who owns Amazon and despite being obscenely wealthy, he does all sorts of shitty things and to underpay and exploit his workers, and avoid paying taxes, so that more of the money Amazon generates will be profit (worker’s salaries are not profit, they’re a business expense).
These two mechanisms of acquiring money are fundamentally very different.
The reason why billionaires are evil aren’t because having money is bad, its because to get a billion dollars you have to cheat. You have to take it from someone else. If Bezos paid all his workers and suppliers fairly and treated them well, and paid his fair amount of taxes, and etc, then it literally wouldn’t matter how much money he earned, because he wouldn’t be doing anyone any harm. But its not actually possible to amass a billion dollars (a full order of magnitude bigger than a million) while behaving in an ethical manner.
You all can't be trusted to eat the rich.
Remember kids. Billionaires are bad. But not cause money is bad. They’re bad because there’s no way to make that much money without hurting people to get that much money. 🥰
There is no ethical way to make a billion dollars.
Grabbed my calculator, because I’m a nerd, and 6 million goes into 1 trillion over 166 thousand times
Another way to say that is that 166,000 John Boyegas would still not have the net worth of one single Jeff Bezos
It’s ridiculous to pretend they’re at all comparable
A trillion is literally a million millions lmao
watch me whip
now watch me prolapse
World’s Worldliest Words
I “liked” this post cause I thought it said “world’s deadliest worlds”… disappointed tbh
yes i am an academic & hate academia
yes we exist
no one likes academia, people just want to study moss or teach the youth about the history of illuminated manuscripts but the only way to get paid for it is to deal with a bunch of red tape and administrative paperwork bullshit. why do you think every professor is a lunatic
