Conspiracy of the day
Conspiracy of the day
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- math checks out. but that would be socialism, what are we a bunch of commis?_niko
- lolGuyFawkes
- i wouldn't mind being a comminazi with a billion dollars.renderedred
- I was just thinking that Jeff Bezos is real life Santa Claus – guy can legitimately deliver to all the world's children in one night, and he already knows...BaskerviIle
- ...what's on their lists and all their behaviours etc. Only difference is his elves and reindeer are underpaid workersBaskerviIle
- Do Santa's elves and reindeer get paid?Nairn
- hmm, maybe not, will have to consult primary source material: Elf w/Will FerrellBaskerviIle
- Maths isn't a strong point round here is it? Try he could give every person *1* dollarcomicsans
- @comicsans, seriously, that's the first thing I noticed too. Are people that stupid?monospaced
- also. bezos doesn't *have* 121 billion dollars, the value of his stock + assets is $186 billion. if he sold all his stock at once it would tank the valuesarahfailin
- he would profit, though, so it doesn't really matter :)monospaced
- @comicsans, obviously the reason the tweet was posted was because the humour in how wildly off the maths is. Anyway, it's $17 each that Jeff owes usBaskerviIle
- @sarah and even in the wildly hypothetical situation where he did give one billion to everyone on earth, having a billion dollars would be the new $0.garbage
- Then you'd have 6.9bn broke billionaires waiting in line for $100,000 lattes.garbage
- exactly_niko
- It’s just a troll tweet. There’s plenty of those going around and people think it’s real.NBQ00
- Yeah. It taking traction as a troll tweet just shows how dumb half of our country is. If they can't do basic math, how can they comprehend the dismal science?garbage
- Ability to end poverty with only 1$ would be amazing.SimonFFM
- At least this serves to point out the real problem. It's not about how much one person has but how little some (not most) have.palimpsest
- The error is not in bad maths but in wanting to benefit every person.palimpsest
- Stop scratching your ass and work fucking commiei_was
- Mer il et fou.palimpsest
- @palimpsest Agreed.garbage
- Yup lol that math totally checks out.pango
- Bezos doesn't have 121 billion dollars.nb
- There are more than 7 billion people.nb
- It would cost more than 1 billion to give each person 1 billion because there are fees.nb
- I'm just writing nonsense because this thread is so dumbnb
- This is the way.palimpsest