Jessie
3 years ago
[Economics / class divide salt] Jesse Eisinger, Why Billionaires Don’t Pay Taxes
This is a talk that starts in two hours - it's open to everyone as long as you register
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Jessie
3 years ago
If you're off or working from home this afternoon and want to have some scholarship playing in the background, it's here for you
Jessie
3 years ago
but also LOL why is this a thing that we even have to talk about
vex appeal
3 years ago
Because we live in a hellscape.
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Sharkleberry
3 years ago
because this is the worst timeline.
vex appeal
3 years ago
Let's just not have billionaires. They are a mistake.
Jessie
3 years ago
man this all happened within our lifetimes
Jessie
3 years ago
when we were children, millionaires were the elite
Jessie
3 years ago
and somewhere along the line it became routine for wealth to multiply so much that it became common to have a thousand-million dollars?
e(Liz)a
3 years ago
... I know intellectually that that's how a billion breaks down, but putting it like that my brain like... goes fuzzy XD
Jessie
3 years ago
possibly because humans weren't built to conceptualize numbers that large
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