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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Oh man the first 3 words got me excited.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

That was my first reaction as well, but I've been well trained to expect a trick.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Where are the conspiracy theorists when there is actually something going on? I guess they stand back and stand by...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

coward shit. candyass afraid of a pittance tax bump.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Anyone with over 10 million dollars in wealth should be legally classified as a dragon and anyone stealing from their hoard shall not be punishable under the law.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Not so fun fact: The absolute richest dragons in all of fantasy, excluding Smaug, only have a net worth of several hundred million dollars. A Red Elder Wyrm will have, on average, around 2.5-3 million gold pieces of wealth, with an absolute maximum of 5 million gold pieces. That means that the absolute greediest, and richest, type of dragon, by far, only has between 100,000 to 500,000 oz worth of gold.

Smaug being the absolute outlier because he had somewhere between 5 to 10 billion dollars worth of gold.

Now if you are wondering why I'm making a big deal about this, it is because 500,000 oz of gold is only worth about 1.1 billion US dollars. But that is the absolute outlier of the greediest type of dragon that there is. Still only looking at Chaotic Evil Red Elder Wyrms, the average would only be about 3.5 million gold pieces, or a mere 350,000 oz of gold. That's only about $600,000,000 and that is just the most average of the absolute greediest manefestations of greed that our limited minds could imagine.

These people that have more than 100 million dollars have already passed the greed alignment chart into Chaotic Evil. They are damn near charachatures of dragons at this point.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My favorite is always the Egyptian god deciding to save the equivalent of $10,000 usd every day and never spend a single penny of it back in 10,000 BC and they still don't have as much money as Jeff Bozos.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I believe that the normal person can imagine themselves as a dragonslayer far more easily than a godslayer.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Sounds like a Set thing to do. Real prideful and blows up in his face.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If Kamala really wanted to get back at Bezos for this, the best thing she could do is promote union membership in tech and in the press.

It has been Bezos' kryptonite for years, and while I hold zero hope that unions will grow in popularity in the US, having a president push for them might be enough to make big businesses shut up.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

She shouldn't be "getting back" at people. That's Trump's MO, and a major part of the reason that makes him so unsuited for the role. She should do what's best for the country. So ultimately I agree she should be pushing for unions.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Bezod is worth so much there is no hope of a single president reigning him in.

It would require a group of countries going at all at once at him. Otherwise we are not only stuck with Bezod for our whole life his children and family will also be unstoppable.

These men should be disrupted. The "move fast and break things" was their mantra. Now they demand nobody move and nothing changes include wealth vectors.

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