[Roland]

Re: Pray for Less Stress Among the Super Rich

The main issue seems to be that Bezos offers the same wage for the people to rebuild the bridge as he is paying for his warehouse employees. After taxes that is 75 Euro cents an hour in NL

[MitzaLizalor]

Re: Pray for Less Stress Among the Super Rich

"The Netherlands" is a Protestant country. I'm glad to see he's not pouring money into strongholds of idolatry. Here's the bridge.



It looks as if the middle section goes up and down. Surely if the boat needs to get past the bridge to reach the sea the local administrators would know that before choosing a yacht-building yard? The bridge is a national heritage monument so disassembling it will provide an opportunity for safety & maintenance assessment. As you say, a real win-win!

And a word for the egg-laying creatures. The "protesters" should consider how would they feel if after going to all the effort of producing and laying an egg some fool just throws it at a boat. I thought they were supposed to care for the environment and the creatures living in it? Very disappointing.

[Prayer Warrior]

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It's no wonder he's the richest person in the world! He's finding brilliant innovations like these to put more money back into his pocket.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-05-07/jeff-bezos-s-new-superyacht-heralds-roaring-market-for-big-boats

Bezos’s superyacht, which likely will cost upwards of $500 million to build and have its own support yacht with a helipad,

Money well spent.

I mentioned earlier how Bezos was buying a superyatch.

https://nypost.com/2022/02/02/dutch-city-to-dismantle-historic-bridge-to-accommodate-jeff-bezos-new-yacht/

A Dutch city has agreed to spend weeks taking down a historic bridge so Jeff Bezos’ new gigantic superyacht can reach the open seas this summer.


The Amazon founder’s 417-foot-long, three-masted ship that cost’s roughly $500 million is under construction in the Netherlands, but the pleasure boat will be too tall to pass under Rotterdam’s landmark Koningshaven Bridge, which has a 130-foot clearance, according to the NL Times, which cited Dutch-language outlet Rijnmond.


As a work-around, the megabillionaire and the boatmaker Oceano reportedly asked Rotterdam officials to temporarily dismantle the iconic bridge, and pledged to reimburse the city for expenses.


Taking apart and reassembling the middle section of the bridge known locally as “De Hef” was expected to take more than two weeks, the paper said. Rotterdam officials touted Bezos’ pet project as a revenue generator.


“From an economic perspective and maintaining employment, the municipality considers this a very important project

Now, a city is inconveniently having their historic bridge in the way of Bezos new superyatch. Bezos has generously decided to pay the city to remove this monstrosity, blessing the city with jobs.

https://nypost.com/2022/02/07/dutch-residents-vow-to-pelt-jeff-bezos-superyacht-with-eggs/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow

The ungrateful and no doubt jelous locals are planning to pelt poor (in a overall fortunate/luck sense, not in monetary sense obviously) Bezos superyacht with rotten eggs!


This is why it is so hard to be rich. You can't exercise your god given free market rights without jelous mobs coming in to attack you!

[Basilissa]

Re: Pray for Less Stress Among the Super Rich

Actually use the oil? To do something other than drive imports?

They also use them to drive tanks and other military vehicles.

[MitzaLizalor]

Re: Pray for Less Stress Among the Super Rich

Do communist dictatorships have billionaires? Even the ones with oil can't manage to do much, except sell the oil and get runaway inflation. Actually use the oil? To do something other than drive imports? Until everyone goes bust? Never happened yet!

That is why it's so important to have people who know what they're doing running things, like investment portfolios. Who would you rather trust? President Major General Mohamed Siad Barre?

[Johny Joe Hold]

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Today you have to look for a good Republican news outlet to learn the real truth about what is going on. Finally, I found one that explains how biased the liberal press is against billionaires.

The myth repeated constantly is that billionaires cashed in on the Corona virus. It claims billionaires made huge amounts of money while ordinary people had to quit work.

So, what's the truth? It is that billionaires made a lot of money when stock prices rose but not as much as the liberal press claims. Everyone who had the smarts to be in the stock market made money. And, the liberal media did a trick with numbers. It chose as the starting point for stock prices, not the beginning of the Corona, but at some earlier low point. This made it appear billionaires made their biggest money during the pandemic when it was actually over a longer period of time.

Billionaires own the drug companies that sell the vaccine some people (not Landover Baptists) are vaccinated with. Billionaires own the hospitals and helicopters sick people use. I am praying the feelings of these billionaires are not damaged by all the criticism.

Oxfam Report: Mainstream Media Boost Dishonest Anti-billionaire Screed | National Review

[Prayer Warrior]

Re: Pray for Less Stress Among the Super Rich

I'm certain if we didn't tax billionaires at all they'd somehow find a way to get roads, schools, national defense etc. Done. Unfortunately due to jackbooted irs thugs who insist on taking money away from our beloved billionaires we will never see this reality happen.

Maybe every American could contribute $3,000 to help raise the wealth of these billionaires by an additional trillion. That's what would help the economy.

This is why i said we should just give out trillions more money billionaires ! They are better at capital allocation! Elon Musk would agree with me.

[Johny Joe Hold]

Re: Pray for Less Stress Among the Super Rich

I'm really worried that a new development will cause Ivanka and Eric Trump stress. I just read the Nazi feds under the dictatorship of Joe Biden have issued subpoenas demanding they testify about the Trump businesses under oath.

Eric and Ivanka are being accused of assigning false values to Trump properties. The Feds noticed that when Trump Inc. was applying for a loan, a building's value was very high making possible a larger loan. The same building was valued much lower at tax time lowering the taxes.

Anyone who took economics 101 knows values change. A beach is more valuable on a sunny day when everyone wants to go there. An umbrella is more valuable on a rainy day. The Trumps were merely stating the value of properties on a given day--another day the values were different.

I'm praying none of the Trump children nor Trump himself have to testify. They and their friends among the super rich are suffering enough and do not need this.

Trump family tension: Ivanka, Don Jr. hit with subpoenas (yahoo.com)

[Prayer Warrior]

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I normally only care about the stresses of management and not the rank and file employees, but every so often an employee has a legitimate complaint.

https://www.businessinsider.com/doordash-employee-making-400k-complains-about-one-delivery-a-month-2021-12

The delivery service DoorDash is making all its employees — even the CEO — deliver at least once a month, but not everyone is happy about the initiative, and some employees have turned to an anonymous employee social platform to vent.


Under its WeDash program, employees — including those in DoorDash's corporate offices — must serve as delivery drivers at least once a month. If they can't deliver, they can choose other experiences, such as shadowing customer-service staff.

Doordash making engineers deliver food


Mandatory "WeDash" starts from next year. You need to dash once a month. WILL BE TRACKED IN PERFORMANCE REVIEWS!!


What the actual ****? I didn't sign up for this, there was nothing in the offer letter/job description about this.

Engineers making 400k annually can justifiably be very sensitive people. They shouldn't be lumped together with the rank and file delivery drivers. What if someone they're delivering to has covid? Or just smells bad? This is no way to show employee appreciation for your best and brightest employees.

Most of my coworkers and I are excited. DD pays well and I get to better understand what I'm working on, and hopefully improve the experience for our dashers. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Some employees came to the program's defense. These employees who actually need to to use their service to "better understand" what they're working on obviously don't have the same brilliant inherent understanding of the program that this engineer who is complaining has.

[Johny Joe Hold]

Re: Pray for Less Stress Among the Super Rich

Other less courageous CEOs could have had someone else in senior management announce these lay offs, but this is the type of CEO who owns up to his decisions and put's it all out there.

Super rich businessmen like Mr. Greg put too much stress on themselves. While it is noble for him to make the announcement himself and say the layoffs are his decision, he should not risk his health and happiness in this way. Better is to let some lower level exec do this kind of thing. That will reduce Mr. Greg's stress and we will all be the better for it.

[Prayer Warrior]

Re: Pray for Less Stress Among the Super Rich

Better.com CEO Vishal Greg recently laid off more than 900 employees. I feel bad for him.

https://www.newsweek.com/better-com-ceo-firing-900-employees-zoom-mortgage-viral-video-1656695

This isn't news you are going to want to hear but ultimately it was my decision and I wanted you to hear it from me. It has been a really challenging decision to make, this is the second time in my career that I am doing this and I do not want to do this. The last time I did it I cried, this time I hope to be stronger.


We are laying off about 15 percent of the company for a number of reasons. The market, efficiency, performances, and productivity.


If you are in this call you are part of this unlucky group that is being laid off. Your employment here is terminated effective immediately.

It must be really stressful for him to make this decision right before the holidays. He is probably up at night with the stress of deciding to fire all these people.

Garg reiterated his stance and accused some of his workers of being lazy on a blogpost on Blind.


He said: "You guys know that at least 250 of the people terminated were working an average of 2 hours a day while clocking 8 hours+ a day in the payroll system? They were stealing from you and stealing from our customers who pay the bills that pay our bills. Get educated."

The other 650 people probably did something to deserve getting fired as well. Other less courageous CEOs could have had someone else in senior management announce these lay offs, but this is the type of CEO who owns up to his decisions and put's it all out there.

[Johny Joe Hold]

Re: Pray for Less Stress Among the Super Rich

I was encouraged to read an article entitled, Don't Blame the Greedy Wealthy. The article points out the truth: There have been programs since forever to take money from the deserving wealthy and give it to the undeserving poor. Yet, poverty lives on.

All these high taxes on the wealthy accomplished was to make wealthy families anxious. They worried about their wealth while poor people carried on as always.

Maybe it's too much to think poor people will pray for less stress among the superrich, but we wealthy people can pray for each other.

Don't Blame the "Greedy Wealthy" – Michael C. Munger (lawliberty.org)

[Johny Joe Hold]

Re: Pray for Less Stress Among the Super Rich

Yet despite ongoing billionaire generosity liberals are trying to attack billionaires by taking away this tax avoidance strategy.
As Leon rightly points out, many Americans shockingly don't have sympathy for billionaires. I feel bad for all these billionaires. I'm glad I don't have to deal with this level of stress.

Thank you, Brother Warrior.

I know a lot about the personal finances of Landover Baptist and Freehold, Iowa. Of course, I cannot disclose any of it.

Suffice as to say, many of us fall into the category of the wealthy class needing and deserving sympathy and understanding. We keep our spirits up by condemning sin and keeping the government in the dark about our wealth. We will not allow ourselves to be put upon by the lessors of society.

[Prayer Warrior]

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https://news.yahoo.com/billionaire-hates-wealth-tax-says-100000601.html

The billionaire who hates the wealth tax says that 'there's no sympathy for billionaires' and that the ultrawealthy are being attacked 'for no reason'...




That means the incomes that many of the ultrawealthy live on - sometimes borrowed against those holdings - remain untaxed. White House economists found that when accounting for gains on assets as income, the 400 wealthiest families in America paid about 8.2% of their incomes in individual income taxes from 2010 to 2018.

The billionaire Leon Cooperman, who was previously crying about the wealth tax is back in the news.


Billionaires have recently come under fire for the lack of taxes they pay on their unrealized stock gains. They don't have to pay taxes on stock they receive until they sell, and they're able to take loans out against their stocks. Doing this allows them to cover daily living expenses without paying taxes. Giving them around an 8.2% effective tax rate. Well I'd say 8.2% of a billionaires taxes are far more than 30%-40% from a middle class individual. So this seems like well above and beyond their "fair share" to me.


Yet despite ongoing billionaire generosity liberals are trying to attack billionaires by taking away this tax avoidance strategy.


As Leon rightly points out, many Americans shockingly don't have sympathy for billionaires. I feel bad for all these billionaires. I'm glad I don't have to deal with this level of stress.

[Dr. Anthony J. Toole]

Re: Pray for Less Stress Among the Super Rich

Amazon told employees
1. They will receive 100% of the tips they earn while driving.
2. Amazon told customers drivers will receive 100% of the tips they give.

Hah! Learn the legal definition of earn, loosers. I hate guys like that who want to take back their move when they realize you're going to take their Queen. Too late, buddy. I paid good money on lawyers to get you into that position and now I'm maximizing profit to the extent allowed by law. C'mon Jeff, hit those pr*cks where it hurts - their tips.