Why is it always the women billionaires who listened to the Gospel? Melinda French Gates and McKenzie Scott are working hard at giving their billions away.
It's definitely a hoarding disorder at that point.
I can't imagine having enough money that no want or need was out of my reach, and I'd never have to work again and choose to spend all my time trying to make more money.
For what? There's an entire world out there to experience.
Thank you George for posting about Abigail Disney. It's good to know that even among the very wealthy, there is at least one person who has this perspective.
And she’s giving away tens of millions and speaking out. Everyone is a tad complicated in many ways. She cannot help who she was born to but at least she’s trying. Disney itself as a corporation is a whole different story, which she also spoke on.
So you’re saying that a person who invests Time, Effort, Skill, and Risk to earn their money and desires to hold onto and enjoy it is somehow an evil person?
Wait, is this a billionaire who isn't totally evil? I read her Wikipedia page and I have to say, I'm pleasantly surprised. She puts her money where her mouth is. Too bad the other billionaires will ignore her.
I love this so much. Really appreciate her sense of responsibility and duty. Read a similar sentiment from @stephenking.bsky.social a few years ago that agrees with the idea that the wealthy have as much tax responsibility as others and should not avoid taxes.
Oh. Turns out a few years ago was 2012.
If you accumulate more than say 20 million $/£/€ and you dont start doing something to help others with it, then as far as I'm concerned, you are just a piece of shit!
Many Native American tribes used to believe that accumulating far more than you could ever need to live out your life was a form of "mental illness". I tend to agree. Greed and a lust for power are very destructive to a civilization and over time will destroy it.
Just tax like after ww2 and also tax excess profits (>5% return on investment and not all smelly/tax evasive costs accepted) progressively. No one needs to get rich within 10 years.
Wasn’t she one of the billionaires who was pushing members of congress to ditch Biden? I have no use for privileged billionaires of either party. period. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Hold on. Correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t she say that Biden had to step down ? I’m
Sure if Biden were president elect, none of this would be happening now
Article mentions she's a member of the group Patriotic Millionaires. That site has a 4-hr video, 'How To Beat the Broligarchs'.. Begins with history of how both parties have kept a bad system in place... "71% of Americans think system is rigged—and it is." https://patrioticmillionaires.org/conferences/
There were a lot of things that came into play with the last election. Biden stepping down wasn't necessarily the issue, it was how the party handled the situation after. Plus her calling out greedy billionaires has no relation to the election.
I read there was a Disney heiress that was calling for Biden to step down. Not sure if it was her or a relative Calling out all The greedy billionaires on her part was a great call
Scared of doing their jobs and the repercussions if they do - label it anyway you want - how will the decisions of the two other branches of government be enforced on this administration? The more this does not happen the more we will experience.. I have not seen one actionable solution acted on
The rich man’s mindset is inherently antisocial in it’s nature and must be called for what it is: sociopathy. They hoard for their own greed, while exploiting not just the working and middle classes, but billions of third-world people as well.
Disney family took their wealth and made something for people to enjoy. trump made casinos for people then bankrupted them because he's incapable and sick. There's class and classless billionaires. hmm
Nice to see one wealthy person call out the others for their hoarding behavior that wants to destroy everyone else on the planet to keep money they won’t be able to spend if the entire world is destroyed.
Disney is only for the wealthy right now anyway. Regular people don’t go there because it costs too much. But if she wants to lower her prices, then I’ll believe that. Maybe she’s worried that even the wealthy won’t be able to afford it. But I’m still glad she said what she said.
What billionaires fail to realize is their wealth is built on the infrastructure funded by taxpayers. Where would Bezos, Musk and others be without paved roads, utilities, high speed internet, a reasonably educated workforce? They should be paying for what makes their businesses function.
...Because they recognise that their contributions to the common good bring them huge benefits as well. The state takes care of some things through their tax dollars for peoples health, and they offer people perks for happiness; and happy, healthy employees are very loyal and productive employees.
Except this current crop of billionaires in control of the White House don’t seem to understand that, because they are destroying the happiness of everyone in the USA and trying to do the same to the rest of the planet.
And with all of us, the value of those billions of dollars will be nothing.
The system of exploiting the poor (often ultra poor) in our country and especially other countries to maximize profits allowing individuals and companies to reap huge profits simply by devaluing the labor has allowed this system of Billionaires to exist.
If they paid a fair tax on their profit and wealth which levelled up the existence of those they use / exploit but still made the billions in profit we wouldn't have the level of disparity between rich and poor that currently exists but they drive the system down to create more disparity.
It's not America, it's Malignant Narcissists. We need to screen them out of Politics because they think in inverse conscience and perverse logic and practice recreational cruelty. The greater good and rule of law are not within their capabilities.
This disorder is rampant in the .1% and their ppl.
I wish there were more billionaire voices like hers, at least attempting to dissuade other billionaires from supporting the sociopathic megalomaniac currently occupying the People’s White House.
"I am of the belief that every billionaire who can’t live on $999 million is kind of a sociopath. Like, why? You know, over a billion dollars makes money so fast that it’s almost impossible to get rid of.”
Money, be it shells or beads or hunks of metal, was invented as a means of exchange and allowed us to evolve from barter economies. Money is meant to move.
The only reason to hoard money is to keep others from having it. This takes it out of the economy and creates stagnation.
Man, with the support of god , has been creating hell on earth since before we could record our history. I’d say that’s a long enough experiment. Let’s start building without god? Can you honestly say it wouldn’t be better?
The problem is god. He’s more detached than most billionaires. We’re just a bunch of ants in his grand experiment.
I think god is just a scam that psychotic humans created as a control over populations. It’s done its job amazingly well. Just look around the world. All despots invoke him.
Disney designed Epcot
City of the future
Elon can't even design a city of the present in Texas.
Cart before horse.
You'll get to die on mars
Using his ?knowledge?
These Uber wealth hoarders would never notice the money paid to taxes gone. It wouldn’t effect them in any way, yet they feel owed all of our combined wealth. They didn’t work for it, they don’t pay taxes, and they feel entitled to everyone else’s hard earned money.
If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat, while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would study that monkey to see what is wrong with it. When humans exhibit this same behavior, we put them on the cover of Forbes magazine.
Ya’ll don’t remember much about her lobbying congress to overturn the will of the voters. There is no such thing as a good billionaire. She don’t care about you.
Thanks for the question. You may feel it was right for Biden to step down. But,I think what she did was wrong. She not only withheld donor funds from Biden, but withheld money pledged congressmen to get them to turn against Biden. She went back on her pledge if Biden headed the ticket.
She’s still a billionaire… she won’t have my respect til she puts her money where her mouth is and becomes a millionaire. She’s just hoping to avoid consequences like mark cuban. There are no ethical billionaires full stop
But talk to the average American on the street and they will adamantly defend the “right” to be a billionaire. We’ve been totally brainwashed. Tell me one good thing that comes to a society where 20 billionaires control more wealth than the majority of Americans?
Excessive wealth should be treated as the same kind of mental disorder that causes people to have 16 refrigerators spilling out of their back door into a yard filled with junk cars they haven’t looked at in decades.
It’s a severe hoarding mental illness, and should be treated as such.
I was literally just thinking about this myself! It's the exact same behaviors and patterns too. Why do you need more money than you can spend in your lifetime? It's gross
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mf died a natural death some years later....
SHOULDN'T
EXIST
Tutelary spirit? Smaug, the Destroyer.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8YUWDrLazCg
I can't imagine having enough money that no want or need was out of my reach, and I'd never have to work again and choose to spend all my time trying to make more money.
For what? There's an entire world out there to experience.
She's a good person.
She didn’t WORK HARD for her money.
She didn’t put forth any EFFORT for her money.
She didn’t RISK anything for her money.
Oh. Turns out a few years ago was 2012.
Seriously there shouldn’t be billionaires.
Money is a tool, so all the wealth bought them not much wisdom
What's the point of being the richest human on a blasted earth?
Sure if Biden were president elect, none of this would be happening now
What a nice number: 86
Ppl of high moral character 🇺🇸🎥
It's about hurting as many people as possible along the way.
These are the benefits of the wealth-hoarder mentality.
They have more money than god and can likely go anywhere where tax rates are more favourable... but they don't...
And with all of us, the value of those billions of dollars will be nothing.
No, I'm not sorry I said that, either ✊️💜
* If you had told me ten years ago I would have written that and meant it, I'd have asked you to seek help. I hate this timeline.
Lack of therapy.
This disorder is rampant in the .1% and their ppl.
Who needs a billion?
The only reason to hoard money is to keep others from having it. This takes it out of the economy and creates stagnation.
I think god is just a scam that psychotic humans created as a control over populations. It’s done its job amazingly well. Just look around the world. All despots invoke him.
He was a decent fellow, shame what the Empire did to him.
City of the future
Elon can't even design a city of the present in Texas.
Cart before horse.
You'll get to die on mars
Using his ?knowledge?
@latimes.com
@dallasnews.com
@cbsnewsconfirmed.bsky.social
@nbcnews.com
@abcnetwork.bsky.social
@msnbc.com
@wsj.com
@housedemocrats.bsky.social
She can call me when they cut prices at Disney.
It’s a severe hoarding mental illness, and should be treated as such.
Nobody would have any problem identifying this as a debilitating misfire in the brain.