“Their Greed Knows No Limit”: 50 Times Insanely Rich People Got Shamed On This Online Community
The billionaire population not only surged during the pandemic with the record total of super rich reaching an unprecedented 2,755, their fortunes also boomed. The numbers reached highs that were previously deemed impossible to achieve in a single lifetime.
Think of Tesla’s Elon Musk, who grew his fortune from $25bn to more than $150bn. Meanwhile, Jeff Bezos is the world’s richest person for the 4th year running, worth $177 billion, up $64 billion from a year ago as a result of surging Amazon shares. Today, according to this recent report, billionaires are wealthier than half the planet.
No wonder that so many people see the whole situation as disturbing and unfair, hence this Reddit community that observes, analyzes and discusses the insanely super rich. Welcome to “Greed Incorporated,” the relatively new subreddit created in 2021 that gathered people who just can’t sit and stay silent about greed with no limits. Below we wrapped up some of the most eye-opening and disturbing posts shared here.
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Boats Are A Horrible Investment
We are still living in a caste system, we just feel to special to actually realize it.
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The anti-poverty charity Oxfam reported that the world's 10 richest men had their wealth doubled, from $700 billion to $1.5 trillion, during the pandemic, a mindblowing rate equal to $15,000 per second. Nine of the planet’s 10 richest people are Americans.
According to Irit Tamir, the director of Oxfam's private sector development, the wealth gap is nothing new, but its new record heights are nothing economists have seen or imagined before. "The gap between the rich and the poor was increasing even before the pandemic started. But the pandemic supercharged this in a whole host of ways."
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Tamir argues that in terms of the wealth gap, "We are in an even more outrageous situation than we were last year or the year before." He added in an interview for CBS News that "Wealth is begetting wealth, and it becomes exponential.” The director of Oxfam’s private sector development said that he fears by next year, those numbers will only continue to increase and that gap will only widen. Moreover, in Oxfam's view, rising inequality poses risks to billions of people across the world, who aren't sharing in the same gains in wealth and may be cut off from equal access to health care, vaccines and economic opportunity.
Then He Pays The Immigrant Half A Cookie To Work For Him Since The Worker Would Cost 2. Damn Inflation!
Again. Trump. The number one employee of immigrants in our country.
We’re Taught To Admire The Rich & Laziness Is The Only Thing Keeping Me From Being Rich. Just A Few More 60 Hr Work Weeks...
Right that's it....I'm lazy. We work long hours for mediocre pay so the rich could become richer by exploiting the workers but nah...we're just lazy.
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If this is true, kudos to him for not being a billionaire d**k and actually being a good guy.
Meanwhile, Abigail Disney, a spokeswoman for higher taxes on the rich and better wages for workers, believes that inequality is widening after years of weakened support for unions and changes in regulations that were meant to protect ordinary Americans. Lawmakers have cut taxes on the richest earners since the 1980s with the idea they would use the extra income to create jobs and economic opportunity, yet research has found that hasn't happened—and the tax cuts only helped the rich.
Disney wrote in the report: "Society was riddled with cracks when we started this pandemic—cracks which have widened into fault lines. There is more than enough money to solve most of the world's problems. It's just being held in the hands of millionaires and billionaires who aren't paying their fair share."
Is It Immoral To Steal From A Villain Of Society?
That Is Hands Down The Most Accurate Thing I Have Read In A While
Why not both ? You can't struggle to improve society if you are already struggling to survive. That's the 2 legs of the unions: one to improve every day live, the other to improve society.
We All Need To Do Our Part To Pay For This Ridiculous Military Budget
It Is Time To Tax The Rich ( 1%people)
DO IT! DO IT! DO IT! DO IT! DO IT! DO IT! DO IT! DO IT! DO IT! DO IT! DO IT! DO IT! DO IT!
I Want To Know, Why?
I don't know the story behind this, but I bet she didn't get a good answer. People that talk sense rarely do.
Oh They Know
This is it exactly. They know people are struggling to survive so why pay a decent salary when you can exploit their situation and make even more money. We see it here with a lot of migrants.
Nothing Changed In 80+ Years
It's a wonderful, wonderful book. I read it in high school first and re-read it a few years back. If you haven't read it, I strongly suggest you do so. That book, and the photography of Dorothea Lange, perfectly encapsulate the American Great Depression.
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And The Years You Spent In School To Get That Job So U Can Pay Student Loan Interest For The Rest Of Your Life. Who’s Idea Was All This?
Socialism For The Rich, Capitalism For The Poor
This is soooo vain and disrespectful from a bank twitter account.
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And Thats Why It Wont Happen Unless We Unite & Strike
We should because, as another bp user stated, forgot who it was, use one day for chores the next for fun and the third day for lying in bed like you have some victorian wasting disease
About The Only Way Ill Ever See That Much
The Homeless Man Should Have Given The Stolen Money To His Own Corporation Then It Would Be Ok
Double Dare
He's one of the hosts on the 5-4 podcast about how awful the Supreme Court has always been. All three hosts manage to be incredibly funny while diving into the court cases that keep wealth and power in the hands of the rich, keep marginalized groups marginalized, and the just generally crass and evil decisions they've handed down. Highly recommend it
He Better Not Take My Sourdough
Another Myth: We’re Fat, Lazy & Dumb. Im Not Dumb! Do U Know How Much I Spent On College?
I'm fat, lazy and brilliant. How else could I be making so much and doing so little - lol
Pay Me What I Am Worth, Give Me Healthcare And Leave Me The F**k Alone
I’m convinced most people don’t know what socialism means. Socialism ain’t Communism. A Capitalist society filled with some socialist policies is always amazing. The only time socialism is bad is when it devolves into Communism. Communism has never worked, but Capitalist societies with plenty of socialist policies rule.
Just 1% Of The Military Budget Is A S**t Ton Of Money. But Lets Increase It Just Incase
But They Said They Can Barely Afford My Wage & How Lucky I Am...
But The Shareholding Investors Want That $20 Billion.. What Are We Suppose To Tell Them?
I remember my boyfriend's last employer made a 300% above-target profit and growth increase in one year (while he, along with others, was working 12 hours a day and received a daily sneer from their boss). Their reward was a one-time bonus of 750 euros, that they would only receive if they weren't sick too often.
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So how do we evolve from ranting on social media to actively seeking to replace the rich old white men that run this show?
Elizabeth Warren
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Elizabeth Warren is a b***h
Name calling isn't productive. Do you have any real reasons for disagreeing with her ideas and policies or are you just after because she's female and/or progressive?
I have no problem with her being female, but she is in no way progressive, she pretetended to be Native American to get votes, and me being someone who is actually Native American you might be able to see why I might be a little pissed off at her
The Purge: Take Back the Government.
I like it
In no time in history did people in power give up their power willingly.
Now is the time to invest in guillotines.
HON HON I AGREE
Remember the good old days? When only one parent worked and they could afford a mortgage and 2 cars? What was different then? Unions. Unions were big in those days. Unions force the suits to share the wealth. After all, just who is doing all the labor to make those companies so successful? Don't believe the anti-union propaganda that those companies throw around. Spending probably millions to convince their laborers that unions are bad. Don't believe them.
So how do we evolve from ranting on social media to actively seeking to replace the rich old white men that run this show?
Elizabeth Warren
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Elizabeth Warren is a b***h