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Cake day: July 8th, 2023

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  • The problem here is not her message, it is how the headlines present it.

    She is not saying that having a billion dollars is wrong per se in a vacuum. she is saying how you go about getting a billion dollars in the real world is what makes it wrong.

    That distinction is far too subtle for the average voter. She is talking about the rules of chess while ~50% of the country barely knows how to play checkers.

    The better thing to focus on for people is probably the methods by which billionaires go about making their money more so than the specific amounts of money they end up with because of it.










  • That might be what they pay Google to advertise to those groups. But do they manage to get that much profit out of those advertisements from those groups?

    I know it is not true to say that “advertising doesn’t work on me” but I wonder if the revenue the advertisers are getting out of that professional man in MT adds up to anywhere close to $17,929/yr worth of sales of their products/services.