That’s $2,967.45 a year. I promise you, if you told this guy we were going to start taxing billionaires $3K a year to care for the homeless, he’d say that was a Marxist wealth redistribution plot that would destroy America.
I’m homeless. I have a PhD and I guarantee I’ve contributed more to society than this fat cat.
my dude, hope you can find reliable comfortable safe affordable shelter soon
stay safe and sane!
He looks like he eats the unhoused.
All I see is this
Melania would fuck it.
How about he go live there instead.
Also just, beyond the cruelty of it all, imagine being down on your luck and between homes and jobs and now you’re shipped to the other side of the world (where you may face death for your sexual orientation) and now what might have been temporary for you, a rough period of living in your car or on the street before you get back on your feet, is now the rest of your life spent desperately trying to get back home.
I was housing unstable in college and had to sleep in my car a few times. I took that pain in order to become an engineer rather than dropping out and entering the workforce. A friend took a harder path and was homeless in college off and on, now she’s in law school after years of working as a public servant. When you throw away the homeless you throw away human beings, both those whose value is entirely in that fact (which should be enough) and those who will return to having a home and will contribute to society and the economy.
Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.
Ooh I’m gonna start using “Financial Obesity” , thanks for the term
Looks like an evil muppet.
I was going to say animal farm pig
Baron Harkonnen over here.
I don’t know anything about Dune so I always think about the spirit of Harkonnen from Hellsing when people mention the name and TIL it’s “a humorous caricature of Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, the principle villain [from dune]”… So I was thinking about the right guy just in a round-about way
He should be living at the bottom of the ocean.
Why are all rich parasites so gross looking? He looks like a bloated tick.
The world is riddled with maggots, the maggots are getting fat…
Something about inbreeding idk.
I’m convinced it’s a weird power thing. Like forcing someone to suck your dick knowing full well youre disgusting.
There’s literally no downside to overeating if you’re a rich fuck. Your money buys you sex, companionship, friendship, the best medicine and doctors in the world (all of this is in air quotes), whatever your shallow heart desires. They don’t go for anything beyond the surface, it’s all they care about and know, because they’re all sociopaths.
Ellison, if bezos and musk dint have all those cosmetic procedures done they would be pretty dreadful too,
Still pretty dreadful, just not bald on musks case.
If he’s ready to give the homeless $240 a month, he can go do so and it would actually help them quite a lot.
He wouldn’t even pay them once they moved to Uganda.
If you consider the US relationship to Uganda, its very possible he’d pay them to function as mercenaries for the repression of Ugandan locals and the extraction of their domestic resources via compulsed and trafficked labor.
Gotta charge them back for transit, fuel, productivity time lost and discrepancies in projected profits. Looks like once in Uganda they owe $4.39 per day for ten years at which point they’ll start to look into paying towards that daily $8.13. Unadjusted for inflation of course.
Right, consider the “We’ll give…” part of the statement. He’s got enough wealth to send every homeless person he see to Uganda with first class tickets, and then give them 8.13 a day for the rest of their lives, and he would never even notice the difference in his wealth. But the “We” in his statement says that he doesn’t want to pay for it, he wants us to pay for it, with our taxes. Since I’m paying for it, I’d much rather have the homeless people get one of the thousands of empty homes here (in the US at least, we have more homes than homeless), medical care, and UBI. That’s what we should be doing with our money instead of lining the pockets of billionaires and bombing elementary schools in Iran.
The most heinous part is he would ABSOLUTELY not even pay the $8.13 a day. He’d rage and fight it in court for several thousand times what it would cost to just pay it.
The problem there is that getting him to pay would set an example. Billionaires can’t be seen to be coerced by the state into doing anything. That would show they are not untouchable, and would probably destroy the apathy from the general public which keeps them in power.
They’d make a business out of it. “For $40 a month you too can support Americas homeless population that we dropped off in the middle of no where! Receive a photo of your homeless once a year along with a bracelet tracking tag so you can see where your homeless is anywhere in the world!”
Someone with more editing skill then I do should put his lips on his eyes.
Oh let play this out you Tonedeaf fucker. Everyone who can’t afford to live like you do leaves. You and your rich buddies have no lower class now.
Which means you have no lower class to serve you.
Which means you soon starve to death.
The most recent estimates of unhoused people in the United States is 771,000 (https://www.security.org/resources/homeless-statistics/). At $8.13 per day, that works out to 2.3 billion dollars per year. Since he is too stupid to do math, I’m not sure he is aware of how much it would actually cost him for his plan.
We’re spending about that much per day right now pissing away western hegemony in Iran. pity, that money could do so much more good as UBI.
In fact, I’d argue we should increase federal income taxes on the billionaires to 80%, then use the proceeds to give every US citizen free healthcare, and outlaw homelessness by building public housing to place them in if someone needs/wants it.
If billionaires such as this guy don’t like that, I’m sure the good people of Uganda would gladly take them in considering the great value they add to a society.
When he said “we’ll give them a check” he meant taxpayers, not himself. He is too smart to pay taxes no doubt.
He is too smart to pay taxes no doubt.
More like born rich to pay someone smart enough to avoid paying taxes.
