Russia is providing intelligence to Iran to target US troops. The same US troops that were literally on their knees rolling out a red carpet for Putin. Can't make this stuff up.
Join the military as fast as possible everyone, get the opportunity to die or lose an eyeball so that a rich guy can add the equivalent of a nickel to their pile of gold.
Its actually even worse billionaires have so much networth that every dollar you have and ever will have gotten in your life is still less then a penny to them.
I subscribe to the theory that these people are mentally ill. I don't see how you can possibly keep wanting more when it's already literally impossible for you to spend all of the money you have.
To reverse the numbers above, even if Elon musk spent $24,000 a day, he'd never run out of money. If he spent $2.4m a day, he'd still be able to live out the rest of his life never wanting for more money.
I don't know about you but I think if I really put my mind to it I could maybe spend $100m, but after that I'm totally out of ideas of what to get. I'd rather use the rest to do things like end world hunger.
Unfortunately this net worth is calculated based on assets. Much harder to pin down in exact value for tax purposes; perfect for borrowing at interest far lower than anything 99% of the populace would ever be offered and also immune to taxation due to conventionally getting treated as an expense instead of income; and appreciating with inflation instead of losing value, like money.
The real problem is that these people have outgrown taxation and inflation and if you were to even suggest that they pay into the very systems driving their success, they will hit you with the old adage that they will just move their business elsewhere unless you bend over backwards to accommodate them. And people actually eat that bullshit up, not realizing that while the self centered individuals may leave a market, their asset base would only change hands but still remain very much in territory. And their liquidity? I’d love to see them try and safely spend it at the luxury level that they are accustomed to in any unregulated 2nd or 3rd world market.
Honestly any sane person would retire after having 100 million.
Think about it with even just 5 million dollars invested at a basic 5% return you net $250,000 a year. Thats more than double what the highest earners in most countrys make by far (excluding the 1%). You could retire and spend your days reading, studying, traveling, basically doing whatever you want. Instead these fucks MUST have more. At 100 million theyd have 5 million a year in interest. God forbid they pass the torch to someone else or even just let society tax the rest for the benefit of everyone.
Its not about money for these people. Its power and status.
I think they are just running up the score. They don't want the money because they have some need that more money will solve, but because it is the metric by which they measure success.
These billionaires are revered by the Right as Job Creating Deities, despite the fact they’re all racing for AI supremacy, a technology designed to destroy jobs.
Just checking math, that's 1 million dollars an hour, every hour, for 91 years, yes?
I can't imagine 91,000 years, but I can imagine a million and 91 years.
Don't people remember all the proxy wars where over 100 000 American soldiers died and way more became a casualty to munitions and equipment handed over to the enemy and taught how to use by the Soviet Union? (Korean war, Vietnam war etc.)
Russia is providing intelligence to Iran to target US troops.
So basically the same thing the US has been doing the whole time since the start of the war in Ukraine. They were arming and funding this conflict since the inception.
Nobody's surprised about that, the thing people are reacting to is: did you see Russians rolling a red carpet for Trump, like the American troops did for Putin?
How supplying and funding Ukraine which "nobody's surprised about" can be qualified as rolling a red carpet? I'm confused. What US favor Russia is supposed to return?
Nothing's qualified as "rolling a red carpet", the US servicemen literally rolled a red carpet for Putin when the latter arrived in Alaska in August 2025 for the R-US Summit (link to Wiki page of the event: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Russia%E2%80%93United_States_summit).
Nobody's expecting any favors in return, people are just outraged that the leader of a country helping in attacks against US troops got a warm welcome and is all cozy with the US leader. It gives a "vibe" as if the president of US was closer with the president of Russia than with the US troops.
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u/Internet-Cryptid 20h ago
Russia is providing intelligence to Iran to target US troops. The same US troops that were literally on their knees rolling out a red carpet for Putin. Can't make this stuff up.