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he wants to maintain his relative level.

This is what's nonsensical. "If Bill pays more taxes he might be only #10 richest man on the planet. Surely he can't do that." Yeah, it would be sooooo tragic if he would have only half of the money Elon Musk has.

As I said, at this point he's no longer building his wealth, his just hoarding money. I have no idea why you keep insisting that his wealth relative to other billionaires is so important. He's no longer competing with them for resources. He has millions times more than he can use in the rest of his life.

You're making points about general economics and government financing while the comment was about Bill Gates specifically. Of course we're not going to say "everyone should pay more taxes if they want but taxes will stay as low as possible". But Bill is 70 years old and worth $100B. He no longer competes with anyone for resources or companies, he's no longer working to build his wealth and improve his quality of life. He's just hoarding wealth that he uses to influence policy on a scale that should be restricted to elected officials. If he really thinks the government needs more money and can do with less he can stop hiding taxes in charities.

Yes, I'm sure if Bill only has $20B instead of $120B he will go homeless.

He does not want to give up his relative position.

What does that even mean? He can pay more taxes but only if he still gets to be #4 richest man on the planet? How about stopping the idiotic race to be "the richest person the universe" instead? You know that being #1 or #5000 doesn't really change how insanely comfortable your life is. The entire race and just pure vanity.

He wants folks at his position to pay their share.

Don't be silly. He doesn't want anyone to pay more. It's just PR.

So? You know that Bill can't really spend all his money so the extra wealth is used to influence policy on national and global scale. Charity is a perfect tool for that and Bill used his to influence American education policy for decades. The "it's not my money, I don't control it" is just PR and tax avoidance scheme.

In my experience Audi drivers are the worst. Whenever I see an idiot on the road there's always an Audi driver trying to out-idiot them right behind.

Yes, people click on ads. We're in bubble here on lemmy. Most of people here invest time and energy to actively avoid ads. Typical internet user doesn't have such a strong aversion to ads. They will watch TV ads, listen to ads on the radio, watch YT without adblock (can you even imagine?) and yes, click on ads they see on websites. Ads are like spam, it's cheap to show them and you only need 0.0001% of users to actually buy something to turn profit. With current tracking levels and ad targeting it's more effective than this. The entire internet is basically a ad pushing machine. Quite disgusting to be honest.

Really? That's insane.

Scientist: poverty will be eradicated in 230 years

Internet: Actually, it's 229 years you libtard

Ok, you're on.

Charging $999 for a watch is the next idea Apple will steal from them.

Actually, millions of people watch Spanish TV.

Spanish national lottery has amazing ads. Like in the sense that the writing, direction and execution in general is always spot on. I know how it sounds but they are really little works of art.

There were scientific studies confirming it does actually have limited benefits but of course it's not the "cure all" it's being sold as.

Just say "Sorry, I have some urgent work to do. We'll talk later". People don't care, no one will think you're an asshole. You can say it right after 'hello' or after quick exchange. I mostly avoid talking to people at work. I have my ANC headphones, sit at my desk and do my job/browse lemmy most of the time. But when people need help with something I do it fast and without needless bureaucracy so a lot of people know me as a reliable guy. After all it's work. Be polite, be professional, do your job and you'll be fine. And if you meet someone who's fun to talk to have lunch with them from time to time.

Thanks a lot, exactly what I was looking for. Those resources look very interesting and I definitely will check them out.

I, for one, have no idea who MrBeast is. Wish I also didn't know who Must was.

Also anything produced with solar power should be free.

Ok, I get your point. You're right, complaining about Biden not reforming healthcare system when from the very beginning it was clear that's not his objective is unfounded.

It's US, live bullets are just everywhere, real guns are everywhere (in Europe prop guns use different caliber, you can't use them with live ammo). Movie sets are no exception.