What is the point of "fuck you" money if you never say "fuck you"? My kingdom for one halfway competent Lex Luthor. - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

johnrogers.bsky.social • 3 days ago

What is the point of "fuck you" money if you never say "fuck you"?

My kingdom for one halfway competent Lex Luthor.

Reposted from Ron Filipkowski

Now we have the answer. The original story was legit then Bezos backed down.

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bnive.org•2 days ago

AWS contracts are worth a lot

billyjones.bsky.social•3 days ago

In this case it's "fuck you may I have another."

weekend-editor.bsky.social•3 days ago

"Metropolitan Man" is a story of a very competent Lex Luthor trying to protect us from that dangerous alien with too much power, Superman.

https://alexanderwales.com/the-metropolitan-man-1/

mattoak.bsky.social•3 days ago

Oh he's saying it, just to us instead of his rich friend.

michaelclear.bsky.social•3 days ago

There's a famous story where Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller were at a party of a hedge fund manager. Vonnegut pointed out this manager made more in one day than Heller made for Catch 22 but Heller responded "Yes but I have something he'll never have. Enough!"

dwcrooks.bsky.social•2 days ago

Yeah fictional media have really ruined the perception of competence, cool factor, etc. of the mega-rich. I expected Lex Luther’s but instead in reality we get billionaire Gomer Piles

forbeck.com•3 days ago

Cowards all.

isaacwbell.bsky.social•3 days ago

I am constantly asking my college students if they wouldn’t rather have a competent villain and not these over-privileged cowards.

alsorae.bsky.social•3 days ago

I’m convinced that P*tin must have them all on tape. That’s the only thing that makes sense.

morgankbell.bsky.social•3 days ago

wait I'm confused, what is the context here? Amazon was going to display tarriff prices but Trump whined to Bezos so they stopped? Bezos stepped away from Amazon like five years ago, he probably has a lot of sway with the board I didn't think he could unilaterally make decisions like that

jbabbott.bsky.social•3 days ago

Let's be real, though. His reason for displaying the tariff impact wasn't to hurt Trump. It was to try to absolve amazon of blame for the price hikes, to avoid people boycotting.

johnrogers.bsky.social•3 days ago

Sure! But then why cave?

nathanalderman.bsky.social•3 days ago

The legal and regulatory framework that argues that companies must always and only do what's good for their shareholders is a great big shove down the ol' fascism slope. If you have no principles other than making money, you have no principles other than making money.

flavorcryptid.bsky.social•3 days ago

All of our villains are the most spineless dorks in existence and they've still somehow managed to ratfuck their way into more power than they could ever possibly deserve.

hnimn2.bsky.social•3 days ago

might have something to do with the guy who is very capable of devaluing bezo's "fuck you" money

tgpudney.bsky.social•3 days ago

You can get all caps fuck you money if you just destroy unions.

passwordismiket.bsky.social•3 days ago

Shedding billions in net worth and the entirety of your dignity just so you don’t have to do DEI.

djhoch.bsky.social•3 days ago

He even looks the part!

darthd00bius.bsky.social•3 days ago

Bezos isn't even Jules-Pierre Mao.

(This is a somewhat obscure reference)

danisaacs.bsky.social•3 days ago

Fed Gov't is a huge customer of AWS. That's the leverage.

ptryck.bsky.social•3 days ago

he doesn't quite have fuck you money like that .. if I understand correctly he, like Elon and most of the super rich have leveraged/loaned all their wealth based on future value of their assets for cash.

So for bezos, if Amazon tanks, will have to work to keep his standard of living.

thomasley.bsky.social•3 days ago

He‘s saying eff you - to his customers.

bocckob.bsky.social•3 days ago

Any chance the next time he flies off to space, they just... leave him there?

joebauernotsure.bsky.social•3 days ago

For these billionaires, "fuck you money" doesn't actually mean freedom to do or say what you want - it's just a dick measuring contest with other billionaires.

Trump is threatening to make Jeff's slightly shorter, and he can't have Zuck pass him over on the Forbes list now, can he?

thrythlind.bsky.social•2 days ago

There may very likely be a reason that one of the characters in a story I wrote recently near the end becomes a vampire that is metaphysical geared toward preying on societal parasites (ie, she eats the rich).

/sarcasm (there absolutely is a reason)

uncle6.org•3 days ago

Bezos: Lex Loser.

whtabtpineapple.bsky.social•3 days ago

YES. You are so right. I hate to say this but Bezos is exponentially more wealthy than trump. Just do it. He can only cry.

werewolfteacher.bsky.social•3 days ago

We have one. He owns Hyatt and is the Governor of Illinois

greyduck.bsky.social•3 days ago

Kiss that ring, rich boy.

maudlinmarionette.bsky.social•3 days ago

And it won’t help Bezos at all when the administration accuses greedy elite saboteurs of rising prices to make Trump look bad.

Trump is justified in believing he’s a spineless punching bag.

chriswideawake.bsky.social•3 days ago

Kompromat