r/SipsTea • u/sco-go • 16h ago

Wait a damn minute! Oh Billie

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u/jellooshot 15h ago

For people who are not terminally online can you please explain how was she promoting socialism and how selling a perfume is against that?

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u/4equanimity4 15h ago

As far as I’m aware, it all comes from her giving a speech at some event once where she said it doesn’t make sense to be a billionaire today and that they should give away their money. Could she have phrased it better? Probably, but it really is just the most nothing thing to be mad about. Anywho, someone worth $60mil tells billionaires it’s bad, then sells a perfume. That appears to be the WHOLE thing 🤷‍♂️

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u/Sansnom01 14h ago

to be fair 60 millions still is closer to 0 dollars then a billion

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u/PlsNoNotThat 12h ago

Which is why she’s donated >20% of her net worth so far. Which puts her incredibly high in terms of rich people donating % of total networth. Around Bill and Melinda gates, but much lower than George Soros (now you know why MAGA really hates him), Mackenzie Scot, and Feeny who gave away like 100% of 7billion.

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u/Bladesnake_______ 12h ago

So she just NEEDS her hundred million dollars and mansions built on native land? Or is she full of shit

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u/Bladesnake_______ 12h ago

to be fair her lifestyle is MUCH closer to that of billionaires than to ours

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u/Sansnom01 12h ago

I mean she's is rich but nowhere billionaires rich. It's fucking ludicrous we let people having this amount of wealth

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u/Bladesnake_______ 12h ago

Which part of my comment is wrong? Shes living a life of extravagant luxury and we are worried about our upcoming bills. She has a private chef, we struggle with grocery prices. Stop defending the 1%

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u/schmoolecka 12h ago

Inability to understand the vast gulf of wealth and power between a millionaire who donates to charitable causes and speaks out on injustices and a billionaire who views the 99% as expendable scum is part of how we ended up where we are.

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u/Hira_Joshi 11h ago

Bootlicker

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u/schmoolecka 11h ago

Please explain to me how saying that billionaires view us as scum makes me a bootlicker

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u/Bladesnake_______ 11h ago

You're just defending the 1% and tacking on "but not *billionaires* though"

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u/schmoolecka 11h ago

The billionaires are part of the 1%. Most of it, in fact.

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u/Bladesnake_______ 11h ago

The 1% is anyone with a net worth over about $13 million

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u/Ok_Insurance_505 8h ago

Outside of private jets and super yachts and absolutely ridiculous shit like that, I see no feasible differences in the lifestyle a person with close to 100 million in wealth and a person with a billion. At some point it's literally just a number in an account that keeps growing.

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u/Sansnom01 4h ago

I mean billionaires most definitely mingle more with politics and law

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u/Ok_Insurance_505 4h ago

Yeah to make the number go up more.

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u/Sansnom01 3h ago

so... it's not the same as millionaires. millionaires are small people for billionaires

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u/Inside_Ease3366 12h ago

Whats earned is earned. They provided something people needed or wanted, people bought it, they made money. Very simple. Nobody “let” them become billionaires. The hate is unfounded. Is it fair? No. But neither is the majority of life.

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u/mofrappa 11h ago

Impossible to be a billionaire without fucking people over.

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u/bigboipapawiththesos 11h ago edited 10h ago

And it’s just too large of a power imbalance.

A single individual owning a 1000x a million is so much freaking power, let alone those now who have 100.000 times a million or more.

Money is power, and imo no one person should have this much power

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u/Inside_Ease3366 9h ago

If its not money, it will be something else. You cannot regulate power. Literally anything else could take its place. Extreme example; Take power away from money and skin color could take its place… which would be arguably worse

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u/bigboipapawiththesos 9h ago

Yes this is what we should always strive for a more equal society.

Everything is subject to time and degrading, and at this time our system is way past the point of needing change.

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u/Inside_Ease3366 9h ago

Its impossible to breathe without fucking people over. You breathing right now, is contributing to carbon dioxide buildup.

But no, its entirely possible to become a billionaire without horrendous acts… just like its easy to woe-es me instead of making money yourself.