brunhiddensmusings:

daughterofscotland:

strolling-in-the-moonlight:

freedom-outlaw:

strolling-in-the-moonlight:

If Elizabeth Warren’s wealth tax had been in place from 1982, Jeff Bezos would still have had a net worth of 49 billion dollars, and Bill Gates would have had 14 billion dollars.


In exchange for that, all Americans would have been granted universal child- and healthcare. Student debt would be regularly relieved, and the federal education budget would be 4 times larger.


Vote as if lives depend on it. Because they do.

If you take bezos money, his service would cease to exist.


And so would your utopia.

Bezos would still have 49 billion dollars, more money than he could ever spend no matter how hard he tried. That’s hardly taking “all his money”.

Also, I love amazon, but if I have to give it up for universal health care and free tuition? Fuck it, I’mma gonna go back to the stores and brace the masses in a heartbeat

who the hell calls the current state of affairs a ‘utopia’?

amazon dot com is not a necessary thing for the world, one day shipping is not a necessity, the listening device you speak to by name is not a necessity

amazon does not do anything that other companies werent already doing, it just muscled in like a prohibition era mobster (or more accurately like the chocolate syrup raquet of new york) to dominate a market it does not in fact contribute anything unique to

shockingly some of us have never purchased anything from amazon, do not own an alexa, and dont even have a kindle or whatever. its entirely possible to live in the modern era using other services

what is a necessity? not dying of poverty because bezos decided he needs more money then scrooge macduck so fucks over hundreds of thousands of workers, throws money at congress to affect how laws get made to keep minimum wage stagnant and make it legal to endanger their own employees health followed by that becoming established norm for other companies who want to ‘stay competitive’ despite there being no danger of bankruptcy for any of them they just want to keep pushing the ‘its technically not illegal’ line further every month

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