Billionaires Are Losing So Much Money, They Might Wish They'd Just Paid Their Taxes
It turns out they don't create wealth out of nothing, it requires a robust economy, who knew?
Hello Friends,
A catastrophic economic collapse is not funny, unless you have no money. Then it's hilarious. It's hilarious to watch the entitled, self-righteous assholes turn pale and start to run around in panic.
Ha, ha, ha, where are you going to run to billionaire? There's no escape from this! Welcome to our world.
They're desperately trying to charge up their electric vehicles, but they don't know how anything works. They don't realize somebody has to make that electricity. It isn't naturally forming in the outlet. It requires effort. It requires putting on boots and gloves and a hard hat.
When you say things like that, billionaires reel back and hiss like a feral cat.
HISSSSSSSS!
That's not a typical morning for a billionaire. They usually wake up at the crack of noon and take a sip at their expensive macchiato which was made from freshly roasted beans flown in by helicopter at sunrise.
They didn't pay for the helicopter, government subsidies took care of that.
Not that the helicopter pilot got those subsidies. The billionaire refused to pay even though he got that money for free. That's how billionaires get rich. They get free money from the government and refuse to distribute it to the people it's intended for. The only time they give out money is to elect politicians so that they're never held accountable for their fraudulent activities.
The Supreme Court ruled that they could do this, those justices got paid too. You bet they did.
It's good work if you can get it, and if you have a complete lack of compassion or integrity.
Let's build some government funded statutes for those guys! Don't pay the sculptors. That money has to go to the billionaires. All the money has to go to the billionaires. Like all of it.
Except... whoops, it turns out money isn't just something you print up and hand over to billionaires (well, it kind of is). There's this other complex mechanism by which economies function and goods are created and transactions are conducted.
I know, I know, billionaires don't want to hear about all that boring stuff. They're too busy squeezing into their skiing outfit and getting into that helicopter again (the one they didn't pay for). Now they're off to go skiing. More macchiato please!
Wait, did I say please? How foolish of me. Billionaires don't say please.
It takes a lot of effort to completely halt a robust economy. It takes a lot of work to divert all the funds to one or two people. It takes a lot of commitment to endure the riots and the spread of disease and the mass starvation.
Good thing there's so much macchiato and there are so many helicopter rides. Turn up the noise cancellation on the headphones. Put on the sensory deprivation goggles. Pretend you're on Mars.
Ah, isn't that sweet and peaceful and nice. Ahhhh!
Some of us wish you really were on Mars. Why don't you go? Take a ride on one of your rockets. It's only the second one that blows up. So, wait for one to blow up, then jump on the next one! Perfectly safe! That's called playing the odds.
The problem is that right now, even billionaires are squirming a little bit. You see, when the whole economy collapses, they get the sense that they might collapse with it. But even in their panic they don't recognize the lesson. It never occurs to them that for all the machinations that they undertook to avoid paying taxes, their net worth would have been higher if they'd just paid them.
We'd have more technology if we'd invested in education for everyone.
We'd have cures for diseases.
We'd have free energy.
Everyone would be living a life of ease and comfort.
Even that helicopter represents outdated technology compared to what we could have had if we'd pooled our resources and responsibly distributed them to the benefit of all.
But losing money isn't the point. It doesn't matter what the amount is to the billionaires, provided they have everything and we have nothing.
Their objective isn't wealth, it's slavery.
They don't want to have to pay. They already don't. They don't want their human beings under their heel to have the power to object.
They want to bark a command and see instant compliance.
Instant, happy, utter compliance.
“Comply with enthusiasm!” they say. “Don't you know how much better you have it than anyone else?
“So they go about their day, and they break the world. They deprive the working class of the means to survive. The economy tumbles. They lose an exponentially greater percentage of their wealth than if they'd just paid their taxes.
But they gain in the wages of power and fear.
The billionaires know the people will just meekly bow their heads and do what they're told forever. The billionaires know that the concept of freedom has always been a lie. The billionaires know that the concept of empathy has always been a lie. The billionaires know that the masses are weak and pathetic and pliable and built to take their abuse.
Like a cow.
The working class people were bred to live in cages, be stuffed full of non-nutritious food substitute, work forever, get slaughtered, and get eaten.
Sometimes as a billionaire sips on his macchiato and refuses to tip or pay or even acknowledge the humanity of the person who brought it to him, he laughs. He thinks about the twenty or so children he's renounced, and he laughs at them too.
“Human beings are so pathetic, you can do anything you want to them, you can move in on them like a bitch, and they just let you do it. Hah, hah, hah.”
And that's just what billionaires will think until their last day.
Their last day.
Their last day.
“Silly peasant,” say the billionaires, “we’re going to live forever.”
We’ll see.
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We will know billionaires have lost enough money when Trump is in prison.
Before I retired from my small Horticultural Services business, I worked for a billionaire family. I am very service oriented and ethical so they scooped me up, gave me tremendous responsibility and later, expected me to get rid of all my other clients and work only for them. That was a red flag that I ignored, much to my stupid dismay. It was an education. I have worked for many large corporations and wealthy people, some of which were good, honorable folks.
But the VERY RICH do not even see us. They never go into grocery stores, or drug stores. They have housekeepers and other service people that do literally everything for them. They don't do laundry, or pick up their dry cleaning. They don't obtain building permits. They do whatever they want in the jurisdiction in which they live, because NOBODY is going to get on their bad side and risk being sued or losing their job. Everyone bends over backwards for them. Their children are rudely oblivious to the people that serve them. Many act out horribly. They are not happy, generous of heart families.
The bottom line: Most Billionaires don't give a rats ass about anybody or anything. Except power, and making more money. For there will never be enough.
Personally, I think many of the superwealthy have emotional and mental problems but are sheltered and excused due to their wealth and the simple danger of crossing them.