Love you all, but there’s a few people in here that have a lot more money than me. If you’re a billionaire, why are you a billionaire? No hate, but yeah, give your money away, shorties.
This is just...so weak. I really would have appreciated a "fuck you" and a vague threat of violence, but alas.
love you all
Man, dragging just isn't what it used to I guess
Jesus, by the headline I expected her to say something along the line of "your money is earned through exploitation of society's most vulnerable people, you wastes of air". Not, "why don't you give some of it away kthxbye <3"
Blasted! Skewered, even.
s l a m m e d
Playing both sides so she always comes out on top.
We need more hate towards billionaires
the rich just need some special hugs! specifically on their necks!
They're never going to financially recover from this.
Oh wait actually nevermind, it turns out they actually made more money while I was writing that sentence than I've made in my entire life. I guess they'll be okay.
I mean, wouldn't they need to financially suffer first to have a recovery? So I agree, they won't financially recover from this non-event. There's nothing to recover from.
We need to protect people like Zuckerburg from being singled out and hated by society. This is why we need to tax his wealth until he's no longer a billionaire. We need to tax him for his own good.
Zuckerberg is the fifth-richest person in the world with an estimated net worth of $228.3 billion, according to Forbes. In 2015, Zuckerberg and Chan pledged to give away 99 percent of their shares in Meta (Facebook at the time) to philanthropy over their lifetimes. To date, they’ve given away more than $7 billion.”
So in 10 years they've given away 3% of his net worth? Fucking slackers.
Well they need to enjoy every penny until they die. THEN they will give it away. To their own charity that has political influence for their kids.
So they will give 99% away. Which leaves them a billionaire.
Zuckerberg isn't going to have children
He…already does. What are you talking about?
oh, fuck if i knew, i couldn't give a shit about that fucking rat.
Then why make such loud, confident statements?
he isnt giving away his cash cow, silly people.
"Drags" "slams" She didn't do anything that would affect anything at all. I don't care.
I am a wrestler and we don't use the word slam anywhere near as much as these 'journalists' do.
More like 'gently chides'. Weak.
But were they eviscerated?
And did they all go to the same cocktail party afterwards?
You people bitch when they use the term "slam" but here they are trying something new and you shit on them anyway.
Turns out that its not the specific few words, but the fact that Zuck wasn't physically dragged/slammed/destroyed/evicerated or even just separated from his hundreds of billions. She actually just said some words.
"drags"
This is why AI is so successful in replacing bloggers but will never even come close to replacing real journalists.
Real issue is not just owning billions, there is also what you have to do to hold on to that kind of money: suck up to dictators so they let you monopolize tech and crush small competitors.
Maybe this will motivate Taylor Swift to give more than her equivalent of a nickel to a dying kid.
not news. put this in the tabloid and entertainment communities
Is Billie Eilish giving away her money as a millionaire?
Remember the difference between a million and a billion is about a billion. Millionaires are not the problem.
To be the equivalent of someone making $10k giving $100 to charity, a millionaire would have to give $10k.
A billionaire would have to give 10 million dollars.
They're both part of the problem, along with their useful dipshits.
Depends on how you are defining "millionaire". If you are going by "sum of all assets is greater than $1,000,000), then 99% of the people who you say are part of the problem, are simply people who own a detached house in the right location (context for this is that the average price for a detached house in the city of Toronto is just under $1,000,000 USD).
No, millionaires are part of the problem too. Especially celebrities.
If they are doctors, then they get a pass. That's all.
Let's stop defending the people ripping us off. They only have more because we're proud to have less.
I'm going to block you now because this is not a back and forth.
Edit: The downvotes speak for themselves. Most of you are useful idiots proud to be taken for a ride, and hate anyone who calls it out.
Keep being stupid. It makes them more money.
How tf Billie Eilish has ripped people off? 🤔
The goal posts have moved. Millionaires used to be considered part of the villainized rich group.
These days it's not been out of reach for people to become millionaires themselves. Espcially in online spaces with a lot of tech sector workers. Many of them are millionaires. So the goal post had to move.
More broadly speaking we live in a time of great inequality. The people who've been doing well are doing very well. Combine that with generations of people having higher education and higher paying careers. There's a lot more millionaires these days too as well as billionaires. A lot of them post online and get super offended you're calling them out.
As for those who are defending all that. I got no clue. Why defend them. Yikes.
she donates and volunteers with non-profits pretty regularly
If a person has hundreds of millions of dollars of worth in their pocket, they are not donating enough
I saw a few outlets estimate Eilish is worth somewhere in the tens of millions not quite hundreds. From this Rolling Stones article, also about the speech, she recently donated 11.5 million. Apparently this type of thing isn't out of the norm for her.
Equivalently, Zuckerberg would need to donate around 30-100 billion to match Eilish proportionally. To bring it back to earth, you or I would need to donate thousands - if not tens of thousands - to be proportionally similar. I won't speak for you, but I'm not in the habit of donating double digit percentages of my salary.
If she has donated 11.5 million, I would assume she has more than tens of millions.
If that information is correct, great. Either way, She certainly is no Taylor Swift (in regard to the money) on any day of the week.
Working 40 hours a week at $20 an hour gets you less than $35k take home a year. Fuck billionaires and millionaires.
When I was growing up, I didn't even have a concept of a billionaire. I remember considering that to be a millionaire you had to be able to spend a million dollars and still have a million left over. In effect, a person wasn't a millionaire until they had reached the second million. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire threw me for a loop because the top prize was only a million dollars.
When I was a young teenager I was quite pleased at saving $300 to buy a new bike because after I bought it, I still had just over a hundred dollars left. It was euphoric to have been a hundredaire for a few days.
Not sure why that popped into my head reading your comment, but there you go.
TBH Eilish always seemed really fake before, kind of vulgar and low talent with the pop equivalent of mumble rapping, but this kind of statement is as real as it gets bringing attention to the fact that "things are really, really bad" because you know for sure a lot of assholes in that crowd were trying real hard to ignore it.
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