gentrifiedrose, 13 days ago

@rbreich In one minute he will earn more than I ever have in the last 50 years.

jstogdill, 14 days ago

@rbreich but Robert, if you tax Jeff he’ll have no incentive to work.

fmhueffer, 14 days ago

@rbreich start calling them ayn randists -- it's the one thing that shames them, even though they love all her ideas, but they can't call themselves smart if they are ayn randists

GhostOnTheHalfShell, 13 days ago

@rbreich

Don’t tell me he earned any of it.

PeachMcD, 13 days ago

@rbreich
Saw a newspaper story today about how #Seattle is going to close about 20 schools to plug a budget gap 💔

#Billionaires live in #WA bc there's no #IncomeTax

If they were hoarding anything but wealth we'd recognize how pathological it is but NO we put them on the covers of magazines & kiss their asses
🤦🏻‍♀️ #smfh

Sadsquatch, 13 days ago

@PeachMcD @rbreich our lack of income tax is probably my single greatest grievance with this state

cshentrup, 13 days ago

@Sadsquatch @PeachMcD @rbreich income tax is dumb.

https://medium.com/effective-economics/what-to-tax-or-subsidize-42cd7dc5c726

PeachMcD, 13 days ago

@cshentrup @Sadsquatch @rbreich

Capitalism is psychopathic

I have more actual data to support my assertion

cshentrup, 13 days ago

@PeachMcD @Sadsquatch @rbreich no. a market economy creates a pareto optimal distribution of resources.

matthewskelton, 13 days ago

@cshentrup @PeachMcD @Sadsquatch @rbreich lol 🤣

davidhmccoy, 13 days ago

@rbreich @maxleibman

Who’s THAT typical person?

maxleibman, 13 days ago

@davidhmccoy @rbreich Someone who averages $38k over a 45-year career. I don’t know exactly how typical that is but it’s not a crazy number (in the US, at least).

davidhmccoy, 13 days ago

@maxleibman @rbreich

38,000 * 45 = 1.7 million

You’ll get 155k dividing 7M by 45.

I’m assuming salary only.

maxleibman, 13 days ago

@davidhmccoy @rbreich You’re missing the “In just 13 minutes” clause from the OP.

davidhmccoy, 13 days ago

@maxleibman @rbreich

RR, I thought, was saying that 7.9m was what a typical person earns in a lifetime. That Bezos got that in 13 minutes.

Certainly may have misread!😉

maxleibman, 13 days ago

@davidhmccoy @rbreich Yeah, I think it’s $7.9 million per hour, 13 minutes to get to a typical lifetime earnings.

Still, too much money, either way.