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Jun 13
Weird to spend this many words on a gross oversimplification. Musk got rich off of taxpayer subsidies and government contracts propping up the stock prices of his companies and well-documented grifting against the public interest.
Jun 13
The reason anyone gets insanely rich is almost always because of the stock market. It certainly how @elonmusk did.
And the reason they get rich from the stock market, is because 150m Americans decided they wanted to own shares of stocks directly, or through their retirement plans, or through other approaches as a way of building their net worth and trying to create a better life for themselves.
One Hundred Fifty Million Americans. About 60% of adults.
Effectively believing that @elonmusk and many billionaires could make them wealthier and help them achieve a better life.
If you want @elonmusk , and most billionaires to no longer be that rich, convince those 150m to sell their stocks, funds, ETFs whatever.
Of course you would wipe out the net-worth of most of those people, and everyone else’s savings, as the markets crashed and brought down the economy and created the worst depression we have ever seen.
Alternatively
There are ways to improve healthcare access and eventually make it available to all.
To start -
If you want @elonmusk and all billionaires to improve healthcare for everyone , ask them to stop doing business with the enormous healthcare conglomerates and to work directly with transparently priced care providers.
It’s the behemoth HC conglomerates that make HC so bad for so many. (Check my timeline for more detail)
Removing them would push the cost of healthcare down for everyone. Their corporate decisions impact our healthcare cost and availability.
Of course if they do that, not only would our HC costs go down , and the quality of care for their employees and the entire country go up
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They would see their corporate cash flow increase dramatically and we would have more millionaires, billionaires and maybe even another trillionaire when that cash flow moved from the big health care conglomerates to their bottom line, so would the net worth of the 150 million American adults that own public stocks
Capitalism is better than socialism because 150m Americans can influence exactly what happens in this country.
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Jun 13
Also this is an insane thing to say as the government is protecting pedophiles everyone wants to see punished, backs a genocide nobody supports and wages unpopular wars overseas but nobody can put a stop to any of it
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Jun 13
FINNEAS COOKED HIM LMAOOO
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Jun 13
“We playing mane to mane defense”
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Jun 13
I actually agree with Draymond, players who rack up over $4 million in offenses should be treated like the rest of the world's employees and terminated
Jun 12
Draymond Green blasts $100,000 NBA fines: “This job ain't set up for us to be wealthy”
“The amount of money we get fined for the things that we do, that shit don't happen in Corporate America”
“You get fined $50,000 because you say something somebody don't like. 50 grand, that's real money. 100 grand. ‘Oh, he only got fined 100 grand.’ The fines to me don't make sense”
“As hard as we work to accumulate wealth, coming from situations that most people never make it out. Then you get fined the way we get fined. It's actually not set up for us to be wealthy after we're done playing”
"The way we're taxed, the way we're fined, this job ain't never been set up for us to be wealthy after we're done playing”
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Jun 12
The rich elites really pulled off the greatest grift in history. Half the country is one missed paycheck from disaster and still fighting online to protect billionaire tax breaks.
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Jun 12
RT @hellohalima: He wanted to trade them for Russ and PG lol. That man wasn’t serious about Toronto
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The promise of colonialism has always been the same: surrender your dignity, abandon your dead, betray your people, and in return we’ll let you participate in your own subjugation. What an offer.
Jun 10
Netanyahu addresses the people of Lebanon:
Seize your future. Join Israel. Build safety and prosperity for all of our children.
And once Hezbollah is dismantled, the possibilities will be endless. And they are sky high.
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Jun 12
I remember someone asking OG why he drew teeth on the “owl” and in true OG fashion, stone faced he said “that’s how they eat”. Then he just left.
I still have the drawing somewhere in my condo.
Jun 12
I’ve seen a lot of reminiscing about OG’s time in Toronto but haven’t seen anybody post the single funniest thing he did there: his drawing of the OVO logo
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I’ve seen a lot of reminiscing about OG’s time in Toronto but haven’t seen anybody post the single funniest thing he did there: his drawing of the OVO logo
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Jun 12
I do think there's some merit in restricting social media access under a certain age but trying to do it at the software level is pointless(because kids are generally smarter than us about these things) and dangerous(surveillance state)
The real answer is hardware restrictions
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Jun 12
Better than the original tbh
Jun 12
The Rachid Taha version of Rock the Casbah is a *crazy* pull by the KU social media team
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Jun 11
My daughter gonn be mad as hell when I name her Anna Nobey
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Jun 12
Contact with the arm after the ball is not a foul so until someone shows OG not getting ball prior to this there's nothing to talk about
Jun 11
Can we talk about this play actually being a foul instead of a block yet.. or is it still too soon?
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Jun 12
And the reason they choose that still is because this one shows a clean block
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Jun 11
Most things look weird in slow motion
Fanbases can’t even enjoy a historic win without creating things to bitch about these days
Jun 11
I’ll give Wemby the benefit of the doubt, but this was objectively pretty weird.
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BREAKING: Elon Musk is expected to have a net worth of $1.33 trillion this year
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Jun 11
The reverence the fanbase has for Bobby is mystifying. I get it for Masai because he had a generational run that ended with a ring but the FO has not been great for a while and that seems to line up with the torch being passed. A lot of avoidable mistakes and failures
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