“Significant productivity in the economy is going to raise the standard of living,” he said. “People who today have two-earner households, they’ll become one-earner households. Maybe some people who are working overtime will stop working overtime.”
I fucking love it when the exact people who make it their life’s mission not to pay their employees living wages so that they can hoard wealth like an evil dragon come out and tell us that the new tech they are using to replace us will make us rich. Really fucking Jeff? How about we eat you and take it? That’s the only way I see it happening.
actually i disagree with this. money flow should look something like this:
the community (town, city) donates money to the people (UBI), they spend it to buy goods and services from companies (which make a profit that way), which then have to pay taxes to the community.
it’s not companies’ job to provide for people. that’s politics’ job.
Sure, that’s how it should work. But how it actually works is that Amazon pays an effective tax rate of 1.4%. Tesla pays an effective tax rate of 0%. Yes they pay no tax. Meta pays 3.6%.
The billionaires themselves pay lower tax rates than their secretaries and janitors. Both Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have had years where they paid no tax. Larry Page and Mark Zuckerberg are paying effective tax rates around 13%.
So, yes I’d like to live in this fantasy world too. But the government can’t raise enough taxes for a UBI by taking in only a fraction of the money that they themselves give out.
That 12 billion could have gone to health care, helping the homeless, improving schools, for research into diseases, into renewable energy sources or into making affordable houses.
But this is what we get.
Sure but how does that help the business world? Having happier healthier people that stay working age longer so they can take more wages? No! No wage! O ly work!
“You’re absolutely right, I should not have built that bridge that way”
$12 billion would pay for a lot of engineers…
Oh man, I misread that as $128!
That’s less than a stick of ram…how did that make sense to you?
We’re all hoping for their failure.
(pssst, its called a joke)
How is I read this wrong a joke? It’s almost inevitable that someone in any comment section feels the need to put their dyslexia on display for some odd reason. What makes this one humorous?
Pick a fight somewhere else please. Have a good Friday!
Pay your taxes, parasite
They could just make an artificial general CEO and get rid of his payments altogether, stock holders would get a huge rise
They better start putting fucking labels on AI engineered buildings and bridges because I sure as fuck am not getting inside or on one.
You can buy a subscription to an ai designed database. We will always keep our paying customers safe and happy.
if your poor, try not being poor. Good luck.
Wages for workers are the biggest line item for most companies. Owners hates it because that money is theirs, by golly. The concept of being part of an economy never enters their stream of consciousness, only the desire to optimize sucking money out of it.
All that money, and he does nothing of value for society. At least the OG evil rich guys of the 1900s did charitable things sometimes.
Lol, did they tho?
Inb4 all staircases look like this
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Not saying someone should but… I would not be sad.
Chop chop
It’d be quite fitting for Bezos to be chained to a rock and for an eagle to eat his liver every day, which grows back every night, forever.
